count
verb
[ kaʊnt ]
• determine the total number of (a collection of items).
• "I started to count the stars I could see"
Similar:
add up,
add together,
find the sum of,
sum up,
reckon up,
figure up,
calculate,
compute,
enumerate,
total,
tally,
add,
tot up,
cast up,
keep a tally of,
keep a count of,
keep a record of,
count up,
count off,
tell,
work out,
• take into account; include.
• "the staff has shrunk to four, or five if you count the European director"
Similar:
include,
take into account,
take account of,
take into consideration,
allow for,
incorporate,
• be significant.
• "it did not matter what the audience thought—it was the critics that counted"
Similar:
matter,
enter into consideration,
be of consequence,
be of account,
be significant,
signify,
mean anything,
mean a lot,
amount to anything,
rate,
be important,
be influential,
carry weight,
weigh,
make an impression,
cut any ice,
have any clout,
count
noun
• an act of determining the total number of something.
• "at the last count, fifteen applications were still outstanding"
Similar:
calculation,
enumeration,
computation,
reckoning,
counting,
telling,
tally,
tallying,
totting up,
poll,
census,
listing,
register,
• an act of reciting numbers in ascending order, up to the specified number.
• "hold the position for a count of seven"
• a point for discussion or consideration.
• "the programme remained vulnerable on a number of counts"
• the measure of the fineness of a yarn expressed as the weight of a given length or the length of a given weight.
Origin:
Middle English (as a noun): from Old French counte (noun), counter (verb), from the verb computare ‘calculate’ (see compute).
count
noun
• a foreign nobleman whose rank corresponds to that of an earl.
Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French conte, from Latin comes, comit- ‘companion, overseer, attendant’ (in late Latin ‘person holding a state office’), from com- ‘together with’ + it- ‘gone’ (from the verb ire ‘go’).
