count

IPA: kˈaʊnt

noun

  • The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
  • The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
  • A countdown.
  • (law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
  • (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
  • (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
  • The male ruler of a county.
  • A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
  • (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

verb

  • (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
  • (transitive) To determine the number of (objects in a group).
  • (intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.
  • (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
  • (intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
  • (transitive) To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
  • (transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.
  • (intransitive, obsolete) To take account or note (of), to care (for).
  • (transitive, obsolete) To recount, to tell.
  • (intransitive, UK, law, obsolete) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

adjective

  • (linguistics, grammar) Countable.
  • (shipping, marketing) Used to show the amount of like items in a package.
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