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Count   /kaʊnt/   Listen
Count

noun
1.
The total number counted.
2.
The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order.  Synonyms: counting, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally.
3.
A nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl.
verb
(past & past part. counted; pres. part. counting)
1.
Determine the number or amount of.  Synonyms: enumerate, number, numerate.  "Count your change"
2.
Have weight; have import, carry weight.  Synonyms: matter, weigh.
3.
Show consideration for; take into account.  Synonyms: consider, weigh.  "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"
4.
Name or recite the numbers in ascending order.
5.
Put into a group.  Synonym: number.
6.
Include as if by counting.
7.
Have a certain value or carry a certain weight.
8.
Have faith or confidence in.  Synonyms: bet, calculate, depend, look, reckon.  "Look to your friends for support" , "You can bet on that!" , "Depend on your family in times of crisis"
9.
Take account of.  Synonym: reckon.  "Count on the monsoon"



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"Count" Quotes from Famous Books



... Ivanovich Tolstoy, born in 1858, occupied the post of Minister of Public Instruction at the time of Count Witte's premiership. In 1907 he was a candidate for election to the Duma, as deputy from Petrograd. A distinguished archeologist and connoisseur of art, he was for many years the vice-president of the Imperial ...
— The Shield • Various
... your honour; or, it may be a good honest retreat. Two prisoners is a considerable exploit for savages to achieve. I have known them count one ...
— Wyandotte • James Fenimore Cooper
... need to have any right. He just thinks I'm the kind of a man he can count on, and, in a show down, that's the kind of a man I reckon I want him or any other man to ...
— Sonnie-Boy's People • James B. Connolly
... save him. He drew his watch from his pocket, resolving to wait five minutes longer, and then, if the kavass did not return, to lift the curtain, come what might. He struck a match, and looked at the dial. It was a quarter past ten o'clock. Then, to occupy his mind, he began to try and count the three hundred seconds, fancying that he could see a pendulum swinging before his eyes in the dark. At twenty minutes past ...
— Paul Patoff • F. Marion Crawford
... be recognised as candidates for Initiation who were already good as men count goodness, according to the strict measure of the law. Pure, holy, without defilement, clean from sin, living without transgression—such were some of the descriptive phrases used of them.[190] Intelligent also must they be, of well-developed and well-trained minds.[191] ...
— Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries • Annie Besant


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