Count

verb counts · counting · counted · count

1. intransitive To recite numbers in sequence. Can you count to a hundred?
2. transitive To determine the number of (objects in a group). Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.
3. intransitive To amount to, to number in total. They counted thirty, crowded in a space Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]
4. figuratively, intransitive To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something). Your views don’t count here.
5. figuratively, intransitive To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun. Apples count as a type of fruit.
6. transitive To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as. He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.
7. transitive To reckon in, to include in consideration. They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.
8. intransitive, obsolete To take account or note (of), to care (for). […]to make her faire, that no man counts of her beauty.
9. obsolete, transitive To recount, to tell.
10. UK, intransitive, obsolete To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

Similar: number, count, numerate, tally, tell, tell off

noun counts

1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity. Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted. 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.
3. A countdown.
4. A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint. Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of possession
5. The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance. He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.
6. obsolete An object of interest or account; value; estimation. When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.
7. slang Cunt (the taboo swear word) That count deserves a punishment.

adjective

1. not comparable Countable. 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’.
2. not comparable Used to show the amount of like items in a package.

noun counts

1. The male ruler of a county. After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers
2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
3. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

proper noun Counts

1. A surname.