count
Part of speech: verb
noun
adj
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin com-
Latin putus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin putō
Latin computō
Anglo-Norman counterbor.
Middle English counten
English count
From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.
Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).
Inflected forms:
form: counts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: counting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: counted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: counted
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: count
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: count
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: counted
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: count
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: countest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: counted
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: countedst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: counts
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: counteth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: counted
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: count
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: counted
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: count
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: counted
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: count
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: counting
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: counted
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: counts
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To recite numbers in sequence.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Can you count to a hundred?
The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.
gloss: To determine the number of (objects in a group).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.
The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;
The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
gloss: To amount to, to number in total.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: They counted thirty, crowded in a space
Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]
gloss: To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Your views don’t count here.
It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.
gloss: To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
intransitive
examples: Apples count as a type of fruit.
This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” he asked.¶“Too many,” Kirk quipped. The crowd clapped and cheered.¶Five, the audience member claimed. “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” the man continued. Kirk leaned forward and picked up his mic before setting back into an upright position. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” he said.¶A loud “pop” suddenly rang out.¶Kirk lurched back and to the left. Blood splashed from his neck onto his white shirt.
gloss: To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.
I count you as more than a friend.
The entertainment we haue had of him,
Is far from villanie or ſeruitude,
And might in noble mindes be counted princely.
gloss: To reckon in, to include in consideration.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.
gloss: To take account or note (of), to care (for).
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
examples: […]to make her faire, that no man counts of her beauty.
gloss: To recount, to tell.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
transitive
gloss: To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
pos: verb
tags: UK
intransitive
obsolete
gloss: The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
pos: noun
examples: Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
Breathe out slowly through your mouth for a count of five.
gloss: The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
pos: noun
examples: By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.
gloss: A countdown.
pos: noun
gloss: A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
pos: noun
examples: Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of possession of a controlled drug with intent to commit a sexual offence.
Anthony Williams (32), of Langford Road, Peterborough, was arrested and charged with ten counts of attempted murder, one count of ABH (Actual Bodily Harm), and one count of possession of a bladed article.
gloss: The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
pos: noun
examples: He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.
gloss: An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
examples: When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.
gloss: Cunt (the taboo swear word)
pos: noun
tags: slang
examples: That count deserves a punishment.
gloss: Countable.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.
gloss: Used to show the amount of like items in a package.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
Synonyms: number
count
numerate
tally
tell
tell off
Antonyms: miscount
Related words: compute
counting
innumerable
Derived words: ahead in the count
behind in the count
bit-count integrity
blood count
body count
Borda count
cell count
complete blood count
countback
count circle
count form
countless
countline
count noun
count plural
countrate
countwheel
countwise
day count convention
down for the count
fastball count
full blood count
full count
hard count
head count
headcount
hitter's count
keep count
kilocount
king-count
least count
lose count
miscount
multicount
no-count
non-count
nose count
notch count
on all counts
on the count of
out for the count
photocount
pitch count
pitcher's count
plate count
plycount
pollen count
polycount
postcount
post count
pseudocount
read count
soft count
sperm count
subcount
take the count
thread count
undercount
viewcount
winter count
word count
countification
countify
noncount
uncount
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