count

Significado

Verb

1. To recite numbers in sequence.
2. To determine the number of (objects in a group).
3. To amount to, to number in total.
4. To be of significance; to matter.
5. To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
6. To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
7. To reckon in, to include in consideration.
8. (obsolete) To take account or note (of), to care (for).
9. (obsolete) To recount, to tell.
10. (obsolete) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

Noun

1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
3. A countdown.
4. A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
5. The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
6. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
7. (slang) Cunt (the taboo swear word)

Adj

1. Countable.
2. Used to show the amount of like items in a package.

Noun

1. The male ruler of a county.
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.

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/kaʊnt/

Etimologia

From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.

Frases

But they don't count .

Mas eles não contam.