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Spelling: [kount]

IPA: /kaʊnt/

Count is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 46 anagrams from letters in Count (cnotu).

Definitions for Count

noun

1. the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
2. the number representing the result of a process of counting; the total number.
3. an accounting.
4. Baseball. the number of balls and strikes, usually designated in that order, that have been called on a batter during a turn at bat:
5. Law. a distinct charge or theory of action in a declaration or indictment:
6. Textiles. a number representing the size or quality of yarn, especially the number based on the relation of weight to length of the yarn and indicating its degree of coarseness. the number of warp and filling threads per square inch in woven material, representing the texture of the fabric.
7. Bowling. the number of pins struck down by the first ball rolled by a bowler in the frame following a spare and included in the score for the frame in which the spare was made.
8. Physics. a single ionizing reaction registered by an ionization chamber, as in a Geiger counter. the indication of the total number of ionizing reactions registered by an ionization chamber in a given period of time.
9. Archaic. regard; notice.
10. the count, Boxing. the calling aloud by the referee of the seconds from 1 to 10 while a downed boxer remains off his feet. Completion of the count signifies a knockout, which the referee then declares: Also called the full count.
11. (in some European countries) a nobleman equivalent in rank to an English earl.
12. William ("Count") 1904–84, U.S. jazz pianist, bandleader, and composer.

Idioms

1. count coup. coup1 (def 4).

adjective

1. noting a number of items determined by an actual count:

Verb phrases

1. count down, to count backward, usually by ones, from a given integer to zero.
2. count in, to include:
3. count off, (often used imperatively, as in the army) to count aloud by turns, as to arrange positions within a group of persons; divide or become divided into groups:
4. count on/upon, to depend or rely on:
5. count out, Boxing. to declare (a boxer) a loser because of inability to stand up before the referee has counted 10 seconds. to exclude: to count and apportion or give out: to disqualify (ballots) illegally in counting, in order to control the election.

verb (used with object)

1. to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate:
2. to reckon up; calculate; compute.
3. to list or name the numerals up to:
4. to include in a reckoning; take into account:
5. to reckon to the credit of another; ascribe; impute.
6. to consider or regard:

verb (used without object)

1. to count the items of a collection one by one in order to determine the total:
2. to list or name numerals in order:
3. to reckon numerically.
4. to have a specified numerical value.
5. to be accounted or worth something:
6. to have merit, importance, value, etc.; deserve consideration:
7. to have worth; amount (usually followed by for):

Origin of Count

1275-1325; (v.) Middle English counten Anglo-French c(o)unter, Old French conter Latin computāre to compute; (noun) Middle English counte Anglo-French c(o)unte, Ol

Examples for Count

I do not believe we have a current count of fugitives for publication, but will inquire.

Their weight was too great not to count, but it counted first this way and then that.

It was in fact a little way beyond what she had come to count her limit.

She says that her record of five years in your employ ought to count something in her favor.

Even if you count the time I spent prepping for my original Jeopardy!

The euphemism most commonly used by convicts for dying is to “be taken off the count.”

The ad would then count as a coordinated communication and would be subject to strict spending limits.

The Cleveland Nine should count themselves lucky that they were returned to full duty after 16 months.

"count me in, please," said Blanche, in her usual vein of frankness.

Usually one might count on the woman's silence, her instinct for self-protection.