count
Noun:
- A nobleman: A title of nobility in various European countries, equivalent in rank to a British earl.
- The act of counting: The process of reciting numbers in ascending order to determine a total.
- The total number: The sum or quantity obtained by counting.
Verb:
- To determine the number: To find the total number of units in a collection by assigning numbers sequentially.
- To include or consider: To take into account or include in a calculation or assessment.
- To have value or importance: To be significant or to matter in a given situation.
- To regard or consider as: To view or judge someone or something in a specified way.
Noun:
- The Count of Monte Cristo is a famous novel.
- The final count of votes will be announced tomorrow.
- Keep a count of how many people enter the building.
Verb:
- Please count the number of chairs in the room.
- We have ten guests, not counting the children.
- Every vote counts in an election.
- I count him among my closest friends.
"Count against": To be considered a disadvantage for someone.
- His lack of experience might count against him in the interview.
"Count as": To be considered or valid as something.
- Does online coursework count as real experience?
"Count toward(s)": To contribute to or form part of a total required.
- These points will count toward your final grade.
Countable (adj): Able to be counted.
- "Apple" is a countable noun.
Countless (adj): Too many to be counted; innumerable.
- She has read countless books.
Account (n/v): A report, description, or financial record; to consider or regard in a specified way. (Shares the root meaning of reckoning).
- Give me an account of what happened.
- Noun (act): Tally, enumeration, reckoning.
- Verb (calculate): Enumerate, tally, calculate, number.
- Verb (consider): Regard, consider, deem, judge.
- Verb (matter): Matter, signify, carry weight.
Count on/upon: To rely on or trust someone or something.
- You can count on me to be there on time.
Count down: To recite numbers in reverse order, often to mark the time before an event.
- The crowd counted down from ten to midnight.
Count in: To include someone in an activity.
- If you're going for pizza, count me in!
Count out:
- To exclude someone.
- If it's a dangerous mission, count me out.
- To count items one by one, especially money.
- He counted out twenty dollars in coins.
Count your blessings: To be grateful for the good things in your life.
- Even when times are hard, it's important to count your blessings.
Down for the count: Defeated or unable to continue (from boxing, where a boxer is counted out).
- After working three night shifts, I'm down for the count.
Stand up and be counted: To publicly declare your support or opinion.
- It's time to stand up and be counted on this important issue.
- a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl
- the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order
- the counting continued for several hours
- the total number counted
- a blood count
- take account of
- You have to reckon with our opponents
- Count on the monsoon
- have faith or confidence in
- you can count on me to help you any time
- Look to your friends for support
- You can bet on that!
- Depend on your family in times of crisis
- have a certain value or carry a certain weight
- each answer counts as three points
- include as if by counting
- I can count my colleagues in the opposition
- put into a group
- The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members
- name or recite the numbers in ascending order
- The toddler could count to 100
- show consideration for; take into account
- You must consider her age
- The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient
- have weight; have import, carry weight
- It does not matter much
- determine the number or amount of
- Can you count the books on your shelf?
- Count your change