"count to ten" meaning in English

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "counts to ten",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counting to ten",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counted to ten",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counted to ten",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
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          "source": "w"
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          "source": "w"
        },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994 June 10, Kay Ewbank, “Computers: Confessions of a database designer”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2015-07-10:",
          "text": "There is a temptation at this point to jump up and down, shouting about how often you have asked about that point. Instead, count to ten.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 June 24, John Cloud, “Of Arms And The Boy”, in Time, retrieved 2015-07-10:",
          "text": "Bok believes that media violence undermines . . . psychological mechanisms that allow people to bounce back and to count to 10 before they lash out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 April 15, Gary Miller, “Letters to the Editor”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-10:",
          "text": "We need to step back, take a deep breath and count to ten.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "An expression used to describe or recommend a process for pausing to regain one's composure when one is on the verge of losing one's temper."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "composure",
          "composure#English"
        ],
        [
          "losing one's temper",
          "lose one's temper#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) An expression used to describe or recommend a process for pausing to regain one's composure when one is on the verge of losing one's temper."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "count to 10"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛn"
    }
  ],
  "word": "count to ten"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "counts to ten",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counting to ten",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counted to ten",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "counted to ten",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English informal terms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs",
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        "Rhymes:English/ɛn",
        "Rhymes:English/ɛn/3 syllables"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1994 June 10, Kay Ewbank, “Computers: Confessions of a database designer”, in Independent, UK, retrieved 2015-07-10:",
          "text": "There is a temptation at this point to jump up and down, shouting about how often you have asked about that point. Instead, count to ten.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001 June 24, John Cloud, “Of Arms And The Boy”, in Time, retrieved 2015-07-10:",
          "text": "Bok believes that media violence undermines . . . psychological mechanisms that allow people to bounce back and to count to 10 before they lash out.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007 April 15, Gary Miller, “Letters to the Editor”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-10:",
          "text": "We need to step back, take a deep breath and count to ten.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "An expression used to describe or recommend a process for pausing to regain one's composure when one is on the verge of losing one's temper."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "composure",
          "composure#English"
        ],
        [
          "losing one's temper",
          "lose one's temper#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(informal, idiomatic) An expression used to describe or recommend a process for pausing to regain one's composure when one is on the verge of losing one's temper."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
        "informal"
      ]
    }
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    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɛn"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "count to 10"
    }
  ],
  "word": "count to ten"
}

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  "msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in English: 'count to 10', originally 'count to 10'",
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  "subsection": "",
  "title": "count to ten",
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}