counter
IPA: kˈaʊntɝ
noun
- One who counts.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- (obsolete) An encounter.
- A surname.
- (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
verb
- To contradict, oppose.
- (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- (transitive, obsolete) To encounter.
adjective
- Contrary or opposing
adverb
- Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
- In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
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Examples of "counter" in Sentences
- The Iran Research Corporation also says officials should use the term counter terrorism rather than war on terror.
- C++ Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) for (counter = 1; counter < = 10; counter++) for (counter = 1; counter < = 10; counter++)
- Please try this sample: public class Test private int counter = 0; private static int scount = 0; public Test () ++counter;
- The Rand Research Center said the term counter terrorism is better, saying it would help the perception that they are criminals, not holy warriors.
- Loop, Parse, carpet, % y%, c%in%: = A_LoopField if (counter = z) c1: = A_LoopField if (counter > z) c%counter%: = A_LoopField counter+ = 1 counter - = 1
- Web to refer to the alternate horizontal open structure of info - exchange, the non-hierarchic network, and reserve the term counter-Net to indicate clandestine illegal and rebellious use of the Web, including actual data-piracy and other forms of leeching off the Net itself.
- IV. ii.39 (193,5) [A hound that runs counter, and yet draws dry-foot well] To _run counter_ is to _run backward_, by mistaking the course of the animal pursued; to _draw dry-foot_ is, I believe, to pursue by the _track_ or _prick of the foot_; to _run counter_ and _draw dry-foot well are_, therefore, inconsistent.
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