count
/kaʊnt/ · noun
Meaning
- The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
- The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
- A countdown.
- A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
- The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
- An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
- To recite numbers in sequence.
- To determine the number (of objects in a group).
- To be of significance; to matter.
- To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
- To consider something an example of something.
- To take account or note (of).
- (grammar) Countable.
- The male ruler of a county.
- A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
- Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
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