COUNTING • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Counting

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˈaʊntɪŋ/ /kˈaʊnɪŋ/ Listen

Counting

noun

1.

The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order. Synonyms: count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally.

Count

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"

See more definitions of Counting...

See images of 'Counting'

Etymology of 'Counting'

Related searches:

Count Alessandro di Cagliostro

Count Alessandro Volta

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy

Count Maurice Maeterlinck

Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf

count per minute

complete blood count

differential blood count

WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University

Share |

"Counting" Quotes from Famous Books

... gave its welcome not merely to men and women of distinction; the humble undistinguished were made joyous guests there, whether commonplace or counting among the hopeful. Their hostess knew how to shelter the sensitively silent at table, if they were unable to take encouragement and join the flow. Their faces at least responded to her bright look on one ...

— Letters from Egypt • Lucie Duff Gordon

... speaking of America, and especially of New England, to the universal desire to be engaged in active business. Young men destined for the farm or the shop, the counting-house or the store, leave home and school so early that their apprenticeship is ended long before their majority commences; and they are thus prepared to enter early and vigorously upon the business of life. This course has its advantages, and it is also attended by many evils. Our youth have but ...

— Thoughts on Educational Topics and Institutions • George S. Boutwell

... to Pompeii. That city, which seemed to have no good luck, had been violently shaken by earthquake in the year B.C. 63. Several temples had toppled down along with the colonnade of the Forum, the great Basilica, and the theatres, without counting the tombs and houses. Nearly every family fled from the place, taking with them their furniture and their statuary; and the Senate hesitated a long time before they allowed the city to be rebuilt and the deserted district to ...

— The Wonders of Pompeii • Marc Monnier

... Kingsley took up his wallet with one hand while he spread his handkerchief on his lap with the other. Into this he drew the pile of money which he had loose before on his side of the table, and appeared to busy himself in counting into it the contents of the wallet. This he did with such adroitness, that, though I felt assured he had restored the wallet to his bosom with its bulk undiminished, yet I am equally certain that no such conclusion could ...

— Confession • W. Gilmore Simms

... the repetition, saying it very loud and plain; he said it over and over till his mind wandered far out to sea, and while his tongue repeated "penna, pennae," he was counting the white sails of the fishing-smacks, and thinking of pulling up ...

— The Pearl of Orr's Island - A Story of the Coast of Maine • Harriet Beecher Stowe

Copyright © 2024 Free Translator.org