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Counter   /kˈaʊntər/   Listen
Counter

noun
1.
Table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted.
2.
Game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games.
3.
A calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens.  Synonym: tabulator.
4.
A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers.  Synonyms: buffet, sideboard.
5.
A person who counts things.
6.
A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one).  Synonyms: comeback, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte.
7.
(computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers).
8.
A piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot.  Synonym: heel counter.
9.
A return punch (especially by a boxer).  Synonyms: counterpunch, parry.
verb
1.
Speak in response.
2.
Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time.  Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, forestall.
adjective
1.
Indicating opposition or resistance.  Synonym: antagonistic.
adverb
1.
In the opposite direction.



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"Counter" Quotes from Famous Books



... indeed, be accounted for by attributing to it dimensions very considerable for a body of the secondary order. It shares with the moons of Uranus the peculiarity of retrograde motion; that is to say, its revolutions, running counter to the grand current of movement in the solar system, are performed from east to west, in a plane inclined at an angle of 35 deg. to that of the ecliptic. Their swiftness serves to measure the mass of the globe round which they are performed. For while our moon takes twenty-seven ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke
... and together they all went their way among the barrels and boxes to the corner where the little safe stood. With many turnings and twistings the door was opened, the package inclosed and the safe shut again. Then they all rose solemnly and went behind the counter to sample something that Matthews had. This was necessary as a climax, for they had performed, not a mere deed, but ...
— The heart of happy hollow - A collection of stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... young ladies," said Mr. Bradley, placing three chairs in a row, and bowing as if to the most distinguished visitors. Two or three men, who were lounging about the counter, looked on with a smile. Dotty was very well satisfied, for she enjoyed attention; but Prudy, who was older, and had a more delicate sense of propriety, blushed and cast down her eyes. She had thought ...
— Dotty Dimple's Flyaway • Sophie May
... however, was not a man to be daunted by any such discouragement; he was found equal to the occasion, meeting his employers' coup d'etat by starting a sporting paper of his own, to which he gave the name of his successful book,—Pierce Egan's Life in London, and Sporting Guide. This counter movement proved the germ of a great enterprise. Probably his venture was no very great success; it ran only for three years from its commencement on the 1st of February, 1824. On the 28th of October, 1827, Egan's Life in London was sold by auction to a Mr. Bell, and thenceforth assumed ...
— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt
... Forces; in October 1994, Panama's Legislative Assembly approved a constitutional amendment prohibiting the creation of a standing military force, but allowing the temporary establishment of special police units to counter acts of "external aggression" ...
— The 2001 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


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