Word Meanings - COUNT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

compter, in modern French thus distinguished; conter to relate (cf. Recount, Account), compter to count; fr. L. computuare to reckon, compute; com- + putare to reckon, settle, order, prune, orig., to 1. To tell or name one by one, or by groups,

Additional info about word: COUNT

compter, in modern French thus distinguished; conter to relate (cf. Recount, Account), compter to count; fr. L. computuare to reckon, compute; com- + putare to reckon, settle, order, prune, orig., to 1. To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon. Who can count the dust of Jacob Num. xxiii. 10. In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins. Macaulay. 2. To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging. Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness. Rom. iv. 3. 3. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider. I count myself in nothing else so happy As in a soul remembering my good friends. Shak. To count out. To exclude will not particapate or cannot be depended upon. To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present. To prevent the accession of to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said of a candidate really elected. Syn. -- To calculate; number; reckon; compute; enumerate. See Calculate.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COUNT)

• Calculate
• Estimate
• consider
• weigh
• number
• count
• apportion
• proportion
• investigate
• reckon
• rate
• compute
• Compute
• appraise
• value
• estimate
• cast up
• Reckon
• calculate
• regard
• account
• argue
• infer
• judge
• Tell
• Mention
• enumerate
• recount
• utter
• recite
• state
• narrate
• disclose
• publish
• betray
• divulge
• promulgate
• acquaint
• teach
• inform
• explain
• communicate
• report
• rehearse
• discern
• discriminate
• ascertain
• decide
• describe

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COUNT)

• Disesteem
• misestimate
• mystify
• understate
• undervalue
• perplex
• darken
• Miss
• overlook
• disregard
• despise
• dislike
• contemn
• hate
• loathe
• misconsider
• misconceive
• misjudge
• Silence
• hush
• suppress
• misreport
• misrepresent
• miarelate
• falsify
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract
• Recal
• stifle
• check
• swallow
• Miscompute
• disesteem
• vilipend
• underrate
• underestimate
• cheapen
• vilify

Related words: (words related to COUNT)

• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• COUNTERBRACE
  To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• DARKEN
  Etym: 1. To make dark or black; to deprite of light; to obscure; as, a darkened room. They covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened. Ex. x. 15. So spake the Sovran Voice; and clouds began To darken all the hill. Milton.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• COUNTERACTIVE
  Tending to counteract.
• COUNTERFLEURY
  Counterflory.
• MISJUDGE
  To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx.
• TEACHER
  1. One who teaches or instructs; one whose business or occupation is to instruct others; an instructor; a tutor. 2. One who instructs others in religion; a preacher; a minister of the gospel; sometimes, one who preaches without regular ordination.
• COUNTER WEIGHT
  A counterpoise.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.