counter
Part of speech: noun
adv
verb
adj
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: ball-games
boxing
computing
curling
engineering
games
government
grammar
hobbies
human-sciences
lifestyle
linguistics
martial-arts
mathematics
military
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
politics
programming
sciences
sports
war
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English countour, from Old French conteor (French comptoir), from Medieval Latin computātōrium, from Latin computō, equivalent to count + -er. Doublet of cantore, computer, and kontor.
Base: count
Affixes: -er
Inflected forms:
form: counters
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: counters
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: countering
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: countered
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: countered
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: One who counts.
pos: noun
examples: He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter – he can count to 100.
gloss: A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
pos: noun
examples: The basic idea is that the researcher conducting the transect (called the counter or enumerator) walks along a set path at certain intervals (hourly, daily, monthly, etc.) and tallies all instances of whatever is being surveyed.
gloss: An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
pos: noun
examples: He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.
gloss: A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
pos: noun
gloss: A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
pos: noun
examples: With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable.
gloss: A hit counter.
pos: noun
tags: Internet
gloss: A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
pos: noun
examples: He put his money on the counter, and the shopkeeper put it in the till.
gloss: A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
pos: noun
gloss: In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
pos: noun
gloss: In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
pos: noun
gloss: Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
pos: noun
gloss: The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
pos: noun
tags: historical
examples: He remaynes prisonner in the Counter in Woodstrete in the hole, by the contagiousing wherof he is lyke to perishe
gloss: A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
pos: noun
gloss: Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: running counter to all the rules of virtue
gloss: In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: a hound that runs counter
She hated being pregnant; it ran counter to everything she wanted from her body
which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flyer
gloss: To contradict, oppose.
pos: verb
examples: I don't remember the conversation totally verbatim, yet I remember the tone — increasingly angry on my part, and flippant and snide on his. We countered back and forth at least three times.
In a war of words that has broken out between Khan and Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, the Mayor was accused of sending revenue-raising proposals to Shapps some three weeks late, giving him little choice but to extend negotiations. Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
gloss: To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
pos: verb
examples: His left hand countered provokingly.
gloss: To take action in response to; to respond.
pos: verb
examples: David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.
gloss: To encounter.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: Contrary or opposing
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.
He could not compel Mrs. Proudie to say that the report was untrue; nor could he condescend to make counter hits at her about her own daughter, as his wife would have done.
Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle.
It was, however, most interesting work, and the moulders themselves were a decent crowd, never tired of making jokes about themselves such as the hoary one that moulders did not live long, which however ran counter to the other one that no germs could live in a foundry—the atmosphere was too foul.
Synonyms: measure word
Derived words: abbey counter
anticounter
axle counter
bargaining counter
bean counter
bean-counter
behind the counter
card counter
checkout counter
clicker counter
colony counter
counter batten
counter check
counter clockwise
counter culture
counterful
counterhand
counter intelligence
counterjumper
counterless
counterlike
counterman
counter password
counter payment
counterperson
counterside
counter statement
counter strategy
counter surf
countertop
counterwoman
counterworker
cross-counter
decade counter
frame counter
Geiger counter
Geiger-Müller counter
hard counter
head counter
hit counter
liquid scintillation counter
lunch counter
multicounter
nail to the counter
non-over-the-counter
nucleocounter
over the counter
over-the-counter
photocounter
pollen counter
program counter
rev counter
rivet counter
run counter
scintillation counter
soda counter
span counter
time elapsed counter
trade counter
under the counter
under-the-counter
Translations:
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 得分球
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 計分石 /计分石