verb

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To recite numbers in sequence.

example

Can you count to a hundred?

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To determine the number (of objects in a group).

example

There are three apples; count them.

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To be of significance; to matter.

example

Your views don’t count here.    It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.

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To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.

example

Apples count as a type of fruit.

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To consider something an example of something.

example

He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.   I count you as more than a friend.

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To take account or note (of).

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To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

noun

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A count

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The act by which something is counted.

Examples of counting in a Sentence

I'm counting on you to explain everything calmly.

We're counting on it.

The Crusades had sprung from the policy of a theocratic government counting on the motive of otherworldliness; they had helped in their course to overthrow that motive, and with it the government which it had made possible.

It is only recently that the succession of processes which is involved in any act of counting has been seen to be irrelevant to the idea of number.

Indeed, it is only by experience that we can know that any definite process of counting will give the true cardinal number of some class of entities.

It is perfectly possible to imagine a universe in which any act of counting by a being in it annihilated some members of the class counted during the time and only during the time of its continuance.

For example, if it should turn out that the mass of a body is to be estimated by counting the number of corpuscles (whatever they may be) which go to form it, then a body with an irrational measure of mass is intrinsically impossible.

After counting to ten and taking two deep breaths, she lifted her head and met his troubled gaze.

The Englishman took out his purse and began counting out the money.

She began counting and then reached over to the end table for a pencil and paper.

Six, but who's counting?

Are you going to insist that Howie admit to her what we're doing at Econ Scrutiny all day; not just counting sheep births and soy bean crops?

The method of counting the total number of revolutions gives more friction and is less convenient than Repsolds', and no provision seems to be made for illuminating the micrometer head in the practical and convenient plan adopted by Repsolds.

The institution rapidly spread, counting twenty houses before his death and eighty before that of St Jeanne.

Many apparent puerilities, such as the counting of letters and the marking of the middle point of books, had a practical use in enabling copyists of MSS.

The end of the first interval of this length (counting from the piece of bunting) is marked by a bit of leather, the second by a cord with two knots, the third by one with three knots, and so on; the middle of each of these lengths (half-knot) is also marked by a cord with one knot.

Without counting subdivisions, there would seem to be three main schools of art in Asia at present - Chinese, Indian and Moslem.

Dagobert had at first consented to the dying Godfrey's wish that Baldwin should be his successor; but when Godfrey died he saw an opportunity too precious to be missed, and opposed Baldwin, counting on the support of Bohemund, to whom he sent an appeal for assistance.

The full number of deputies was 749, not counting 33 from the colonies, of whom only a section arrived in Paris.

Hesse showed independently that the general ternary cubic can be reduced, by linear transformation, to the form x3+y3+z3+ 6mxyz, a form which involves 9 independent constants, as should be the case; it must, however, be remarked that the counting of constants is not a sure guide to the existence of a conjectured canonical form.

It seems now surprising that vague counting by generations should so long have prevailed and satisfied the wants of inquiring men, and that so simple, precise and seemingly obvious a plan as counting by years, the largest natural division of time, did not occur to any investigator before Eratosthenes.

We've got some base­ball to play tomorrow; some butt to kick and we're counting on you!

For example, the application of the theory of cardinal numbers to classes of physical entities involves in practice some process of counting.

Thus the ternary quartic is not, in general, expressible as a sum of five 4th powers as the counting of constants might have led one to expect, a theorem due to Sylvester.

The Jews in 1900 numbered 851,378, not counting the very great number who have become Christians, who are reckoned as Magyars.

We therefore determine the coefficients by counting the grouped terms individually, instead of adding them.

The county of London may thus be regarded from the administrative standpoint as consisting of twenty-nine contiguous towns, counting the City of London.

Christopher went to school near Bristol, in England, returned to America in 1741, was afterwards employed in a counting house in Philadelphia, and became a merchant and planter at Charleston.

A lay reaction against the theocratic pretensions of Dagobert, who was counting on Norman support, was responsible for the summons; and in the strength of that reaction Baldwin was able to become the first king of Jerusalem.

The block A carries the disk D, B carries the roller R and counting gear.

The failure seems (§ 2) to be due to difficulty in realizing the numerical expression of an area or a solid in terms of a specified unit, while the same difficulty does not arise in the case of linear measure or liquid measure, where the number of units can be ascertained by direct counting.

The counting or telling is now carried out in the case of bronze and silver coins by ingenious machines introduced in 1891.

The machine can be set to deliver a certain number of coins, after which the counting wheel stops automatically.

Various instruments have been devised which produce any desired note, and which are provided with methods of counting the frequency of vibration.

If two such flames are placed one under the other they may be excited by different sources, and the ratio of the frequencies may be approximately determined by counting the number of teeth in each in the same space.

Using this result Rayleigh found the correction for an unflanged open end by sounding two pipes nearly in unison, each provided with a flange, and counting the beats.

While the system of counting from the capital of the country is still used for local purposes, the tendency in recent years is to use the meridian of Greenwich for nautical and international purposes.

The rotation of the mercury is detected and measured by means of a small vane of platinum wire immersed in it, the shaft of this vane being connected by an endless screw with a counting mechanism.

In order to overcome the friction of the train the field-coils are wound with an auxiliary shunt coil which supplies a driving force sufficient to overcome the friction of the counting train.

The two clock motions may be geared to a single counting mechanism which records the difference in the rates of going of the two clocks.

It consists of a disk of aluminium, the axis of which is geared to a counting mechanism and which runs between the poles of permanent magnets that create eddy currents in it and therefore exert a retarding force.

The counting mechanism and dials may be so arranged as to indicate this energy directly in watt-hours.

In 1900 there were, not counting the city, 27,813 inhabitants in the canton, or, including the city, 132,609, the city alone having thus a population of 104,796.

He had a regular army of 8000 infantry and 2000 cavalry, without counting 50,000 gowns (bodies of Arab horsemen) brought by the khalifas.

The coalescence of segments, though frequent, does not after a little experience materially confuse the counting.

Counting on the support of Honduras and Salvador, he proclaimed himself, in February 1885, the supreme military chief of Central America, and claimed the command of all the forces within the five states.

Ides, counting inclusively.

The corresponding correction in solutions consists in counting only the volume of the solvent in which the solute is dissolved, instead of the whole volume of the solution.

It was probably built about 470 B.C. The colonnades at the east and west side were of six columns each; those at the north and south sides (counting the corner columns again) of thirteen each.

It is probably the oldest of extant Greek temples, and may date from about 1000 B.C. It has colonnades of six columns each at east and west, and of sixteen each (counting the corner columns again) at north and south.

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