Definitions for counters

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counters count·er

Spelling: [koun-ter]

IPA: /ˈkaʊn tər/

Counters is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 472 anagrams from letters in counters (cenorstu).

Definitions for counters

noun

1. a table or display case on which goods can be shown, business transacted, etc.
2. (in restaurants, luncheonettes, etc.) a long, narrow table with stools or chairs along one side for the patrons, behind which refreshments or meals are prepared and served.
3. a surface for the preparation of food in a kitchen, especially on a low cabinet.
4. anything used in keeping account, as a disk of metal or wood, used in some games, as checkers, for marking a player's position or for keeping score.
5. an imitation coin or token.
6. a coin; money.
7. a person who counts.
8. a device for counting revolutions of a wheel, items produced, etc.
9. Cards. card counter.
10. Computers. a storage register or program variable used to tally how often something of interest occurs.
11. Electronics. scaler (def 2).
12. Physics. any of various instruments for detecting ionizing radiation and for registering counts.
13. something that is opposite or contrary to something else.
14. a blow delivered in receiving or parrying another blow, as in boxing.
15. a statement or action made to refute, oppose, or nullify another statement or action.
16. Fencing. a circular parry.
17. a piece of leather or other material inserted between the lining and outside leather of a shoe or boot quarter to keep it stiff.
18. Nautical. the part of a stern that overhangs and projects aft of the sternpost of a vessel.
19. Also called void. Typesetting. any part of the face of a type that is less than type-high and is therefore not inked.
20. Engineering, Building Trades. a truss member subject to stress only under certain partial loadings of the truss.
21. the part of a horse's breast that lies between the shoulders and under the neck.
22. the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation:
23. the number representing the result of a process of counting; the total number.
24. an accounting.
25. Baseball. the number of balls and strikes, usually designated in that order, that have been called on a batter during a turn at bat:
26. Law. a distinct charge or theory of action in a declaration or indictment:
27. 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.
28. 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.
29. 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.
30. Archaic. regard; notice.
31. 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.

Idioms

1. over the counter, (of the sale of stock) through a broker's office rather than through the stock exchange. (of the sale of merchandise) through a retail store rather than through a wholesaler.
2. under the counter, in a clandestine manner, especially illegally:
3. count coup. coup1 (def 4).

adverb

1. in the wrong way; contrary to the right course; in the reverse or opposite direction.
2. contrary; in opposition (usually preceded by run or go):

adjective

1. opposite; opposed; contrary.
2. 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 go counter to; oppose; controvert.
2. to meet or answer (a move, blow, etc.) by another in return.
3. to encounter in opposition or combat.
4. to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate:
5. to reckon up; calculate; compute.
6. to list or name the numerals up to:
7. to include in a reckoning; take into account:
8. to reckon to the credit of another; ascribe; impute.
9. to consider or regard:

verb (used without object)

1. to make a counter or opposing move.
2. to give a blow while receiving or parrying one, as in boxing.
3. to count the items of a collection one by one in order to determine the total:
4. to list or name numerals in order:
5. to reckon numerically.
6. to have a specified numerical value.
7. to be accounted or worth something:
8. to have merit, importance, value, etc.; deserve consideration:
9. to have worth; amount (usually followed by for):

Origin of counters

1300-50; Middle English countour Anglo-French (Old French comptoir) Medieval Latin computātorium place for computing, equivalent to Latin computā(re) to compute +

Examples for counters

You meet heroes across a counter—and they are on both sides of that counter.

Even local chickens were more expensive than in the summer, Smirnova and another woman at the counter complained.

Oh, yes, this is the counter for them to be found in endless variety.

It is as eager on behalf of the man behind a counter as on that of him who is governing a country.

She turned away to range some boxes on the shelves behind the counter.

The further forward bare-boned science goes, however, the more forceful the counter- response.

If you need to store the bottle in the fridge, let it warm up for a few minutes on the counter before serving.

This led to the formation of a Christian militant group to counter the rebels, and all-out sectarian violence exploded.

They passed out into the hall, and drew up at the clerk's counter.

Sensing his opportunity, Joey Biden pounced: “I walked up behind him and smashed his head next to the counter.”