Definition of "count"

count¹

/kaʊnt/

verb
third-person singular simple present counts, present participle counting, simple past and past participle counted
1. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
2. (transitive) To determine the number of (objects in a group).
  Quotations
  The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted;The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President, […]
  1803, Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution‎
  How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
  c. 1845–1846, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Sonnets from the Portuguese”, in Poems. […], new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, […], published 1850, sonnet XLII, page 479
3. (intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.
  Quotations
  They counted thirty, crowded in a spaceWhich left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]
  1819 July 15, [Lord Byron], Don Juan, London: […] Thomas Davison, […], canto II, stanza LXIII, page 150
4. (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
5. (intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
  Quotations
  This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
  1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney
  Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too. […] But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.
  2013 August 3, “Boundary problems”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
6. (transitive) To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
  Quotations
  The entertainment we haue had of him,Is far from villanie or ſeruitude,And might in noble mindes be counted princely.
  c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, Act III, scene ii
7. (transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.
8. (intransitive, obsolete) To take account or note (of), to care (for).
  Quotations
  No man counts of her beauty.
  c. 1589–1593, William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, line 37
9. (transitive, obsolete) To recount, to tell.
10. (intransitive, UK, law, obsolete) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
noun
plural counts
1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
  Quotations
  By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.
  2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, page 177
3. A countdown.
4. (law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
5. (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
6. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
  Quotations
  When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.
  1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, stanza 16
adjective
not comparable
1. (linguistics, grammar) Countable.
  Quotations
  For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.
  2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118
2. (shipping, marketing) Used to show the amount of like items in a package.

count²

/kaʊnt/

noun
plural counts
1. The male ruler of a county.
2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

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