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counts

We have found lemma(root) word of counts : count.

Definitions


[kaʊnt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- determine the total number of (a collection of items)
(e.g: I started to count the stars I could see)

- take into account; include
(e.g: the staff has shrunk to four, or five if you count the European director)

- be significant
(e.g: it did not matter what the audience thought—it was the critics that counted)


Phrases:
- beat the count
- count one's blessings
- count out the House
- count something on the fingers of one hand
- count the cost
- count the days
- don't count your chickens before they're hatched
- keep count
- lose count
- out for the count
- take the count
- — and counting

Origin:
Middle English (as a noun): from Old French counte (noun), counter (verb), from the verb computare ‘calculate’ (see compute)


[kaʊnt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- an act of determining the total number of something
(e.g: at the last count, fifteen applications were still outstanding)

- an act of reciting numbers in ascending order, up to the specified number
(e.g: hold the position for a count of seven)

- a point for discussion or consideration
(e.g: the programme remained vulnerable on a number of counts)

- the measure of the fineness of a yarn expressed as the weight of a given length or the length of a given weight


Phrases:
- beat the count
- count one's blessings
- count out the House
- count something on the fingers of one hand
- count the cost
- count the days
- don't count your chickens before they're hatched
- keep count
- lose count
- out for the count
- take the count
- — and counting

Origin:
Middle English (as a noun): from Old French counte (noun), counter (verb), from the verb computare ‘calculate’ (see compute)


[kaʊnt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a foreign nobleman whose rank corresponds to that of an earl
(e.g: he is now a prisoner in a tower of the count's palace)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French conte, from Latin comes, comit- ‘companion, overseer, attendant’ (in late Latin ‘person holding a state office’), from com- ‘together with’ + it- ‘gone’ (from the verb ire ‘go’)




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