count someone in Definition

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