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count1
verb counted, counting
    intr
    1. To recite numbers in ascending order.
      Example: count to five
    2. To find the total amount of (items), by adding up item by item.
    3. To include
      Example: Did you remember to count Iain?
    intr
    4. To be important; to matter; to have an effect or value.
      Example: Good contacts count in the music business
    5. To consider.
      Example: He counted himself lucky that he still had a job
      Thesaurus: consider, judge, deem, hold, regard, esteem, rate, ascribe, impute.
noun
    1. An act of counting.
    2. The number counted.
      Thesaurus: sum, total, result, outcome, aggregate, tally.
    3. A charge brought against an accused person.
      Example: He was found guilty on two counts of murder
    4. A single response registered by a device used to detect or measure ionizing radiation.
    5. The total number of responses registered by such a device.
Derivative: countable
    Able to be counted.
    Said of a noun: capable of being used with a or an, or in the plural. See also count noun.
Idiom: count me in (count me out)
    I am willing, or not willing, to be included.
Idiom: keep count (lose count)
    To keep, or fail to keep, a note of the running total.
Idiom: out for the count
    Said of a floored boxer: unable to rise to his feet within a count of ten.
    Unconscious.
    facetious
    Fast asleep.
Etymology: 14c: from French cunter, from Latin computare to calculate.

Phrasal Verb: count against someone
    To be a disadvantage to them.
Phrasal Verb: count down
    To count backwards from a certain number to zero, so as to indicate the time before a particular event, movement, happening, etc. See also countdown.
Phrasal Verb: count someone or something in
    To include them or it.
Phrasal Verb: count on someone or something
    To rely on them or it.
Phrasal Verb: count someone out
    To declare (a floored boxer) to have lost the match if they are unable to get up within a count of ten seconds.To exclude them from consideration.
Phrasal Verb: count something out
    To lay down or present items one at a time while counting.
      Example: counted out five pounds for each boy


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