counter

(Hong Kong Cantonese) counter; front desk; reception desk (Classifier: 個／个 c; 張／张 c)

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/kʰaːŋ⁵⁵ tʰaː³⁵/

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counter

(Hong Kong Cantonese) to counter; to take action in response to; to respond (especially when the response taken is opposite to the original situation)

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From English counter (“to take action in response to; to respond”).


counter

Het thuisteam scoorde vanuit de counter.

The home team scored during a counter-attack.

(chiefly sports, especially soccer) counter-attack, counter


counter

He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter – he can count to 100.

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.

2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, →DOI, page 4:

A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.

He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.

An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.

A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.

With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable.

2006, Matthew MacDonald, Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional, page 49:

(programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.

He put his money on the counter, and the shopkeeper put it in the till.

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted

A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.

In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.

In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.

(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.

He remaynes prisonner in the Counter in Woodstrete in the hole, by the contagiousing wherof he is lyke to perishe

1590, John Greenwood, Christopher Bowman's Petition:

(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.

(grammar) 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.

→ Japanese: カウンター

→ Korean: 카운터 (kaunteo)

→ Malay: kaunter

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→ Thai: เคาน์เตอร์ (káo-dtə̂ə)

→ Thai: เคาน์เตอร์ (káo-dtə̂ə)

toonbank

table or board on which business is transacted

teller

computing: variable etc. for keeping count

vastatoimi

something in contradiction to a proposal

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.

doublet

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counter

running counter to all the rules of virtue

1693, [John Locke], “§94”, in Some Thoughts Concerning Education, London: […] A[wnsham] and J[ohn] Churchill, […], →OCLC:

Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

a hound that runs counter

She hated being pregnant; it ran counter to everything she wanted from her body

2004, Bee Lavender, Maia Rossini, Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts:

which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flyer

1615, George Sandys, “(please specify the page)”, in The Relation of a Iourney Begun An: Dom: 1610. […], London: […] [Richard Field] for W. Barrett, →OCLC:

In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.

contra

contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction

From Old French contre, Anglo-Norman cuntre, both from Latin contra.

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counter

Something opposite or contrary to something else.

Always know a counter to any hold you try against your opponent.

(martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.

(nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

Seymour, sitting in an old corduroy armchair across the room, a cigarette going, wearing a blue shirt, gray slacks, moccasins with the counters broken down, a shaving cut on the side of his face […]

1959, J. D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction:

The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).

(music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.

The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

(typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.

with kindly counter under mimic shade

1591, Ed[mund] Sp[enser], “The Teares of the Muses”, in Complaints. Containing Sundrie Small Poemes of the Worlds Vanitie. […], London: […] William Ponsonbie, […], →OCLC:

Arsenal lacked urgency and penetration in a lazy, lacklustre opening half, sucked in by Forest's strategy of sitting back in blocks of defence waiting to hit them on the counter.

2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

vastapuoli

something opposite or contrary to something else

vastaliike

martial arts: proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to one's opponent

[ˈkʰaʊ̯.ɾ̃ɚ]


counter

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."

2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:

His left hand countered provokingly.

1857, Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, in Two Years Ago, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Macmillan and Co., →OCLC:

(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

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.

2012 December 14, Simon Jenkins, “We mustn't overreact to North Korea boys' toys”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 2, page 23:

To take action in response to; to respond.

en-verb

counter (third-person singular simple present counters, present participle countering, simple past and past participle countered)

counters (present singular third-person)
countering (participle present)
countered (participle past)
countered (past)

vastata

boxing: to return a blow while receiving one

[ˈkʰaʊ̯.ɾ̃ɚ]


counter

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.

1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:

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.

1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, in Railway Magazine, page 342:

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counter

counter (infinitive)
avoir counté (infinitive multiword-construction)
en countant (gerund)
gerund of avoir + past participle (gerund multiword-construction)
countant (participle present)
counté (participle past)
count (first-person indicative present singular)
countes (indicative present second-person singular)
counte (indicative present singular third-person)
countons (first-person indicative plural present)
countez (indicative plural present second-person)
countent (indicative plural present third-person)
countoie (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
counteie (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
countoe (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
counteve (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
countoies (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
counteies (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
countoes (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
counteves (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
countoit (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
counteit (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
countot (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
counteve (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
countiiens (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
countiens (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
countiiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
countiez (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
countoient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
counteient (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
countoent (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
countevent (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
countai (first-person indicative preterite singular)
countas (indicative preterite second-person singular)
counta (indicative preterite singular third-person)
countames (first-person indicative plural preterite)
countastes (indicative plural preterite second-person)
counterent (indicative plural preterite third-person)
counterai (first-person future indicative singular)
counteras (future indicative second-person singular)
countera (future indicative singular third-person)
counterons (first-person future indicative plural)
counteroiz (future indicative plural second-person)
countereiz (future indicative plural second-person)
counterez (future indicative plural second-person)
counteront (future indicative plural third-person)
counteroie (conditional first-person singular)
countereie (conditional first-person singular)
counteroies (conditional second-person singular)
countereies (conditional second-person singular)
counteroit (conditional singular third-person)
countereit (conditional singular third-person)
counteriiens (conditional first-person plural)
counteriens (conditional first-person plural)
counteriiez (conditional plural second-person)
counteriez (conditional plural second-person)
counteroient (conditional plural third-person)
countereient (conditional plural third-person)
future tense of avoir + past participle (future indicative multiword-construction perfect)
count (first-person present singular subjunctive)
counz (present second-person singular subjunctive)
count (present singular subjunctive third-person)
countons (first-person plural present subjunctive)
countez (plural present second-person subjunctive)
countent (plural present subjunctive third-person)
countasse (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
countasses (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
countast (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
countissons (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
countissiens (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
countissoiz (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
countissez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
countissiez (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
countassent (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
counte (imperative second-person singular)
countons (first-person imperative plural)
countez (imperative plural second-person)