count

Can you count to a hundred?
The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.

(intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.

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,[…]

1803, Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution:

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

c. 1845–1846, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, in Poems. […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1850, →OCLC, sonnet XLII, page 479:

(transitive) To determine the number of (objects in a group).

They counted thirty, crowded in a space
Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]

1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], →OCLC, canto II, stanza LXIII, page 150:

(intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.

Your views don’t count here.    It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.

(intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.

This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.

1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney:

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.

2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:

Apples count as a type of fruit.

(intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.

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.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:

(transitive) To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.

They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.

(transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.

No man counts of her beauty.

c. 1589–1593, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, line 37:

(intransitive, obsolete) To take account or note (of), to care (for).

(transitive, obsolete) To recount, to tell.

(intransitive, UK, law, obsolete) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

en-verb

count (third-person singular simple present counts, present participle counting, simple past and past participle counted)

counts (present singular third-person)
counting (participle present)
counted (participle past)
counted (past)
count (infinitive)

enumerate

determine the number of objects in a group

almost only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades

close only counts in horseshoes and darts

close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades

don't count your chickens before the eggs have hatched

don't count your chickens before they're hatched

From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.


count

Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.

The act of counting or tallying a quantity.

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.

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 177:

The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.

(law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.

He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.

(baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.

When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.

1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16:

(obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.

That count deserves a punishment.

(euphemistic, slang) Cunt (the taboo swear word)

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the result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set


count

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’.

2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118:

(shipping, marketing) Used to show the amount of like items in a package.


count

A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte (“count”), from Latin comes (“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". Doublet of comes, comte, and conte.