count

verb

1. (intransitive)To recite numbers in sequence.

   “Can you count to a hundred?”

   “The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.”

2. (transitive)To determine the number of (objects in a group).

   “Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.”

   “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]”

   “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.”

3. (intransitive)To amount to, to number in total.

   “They counted thirty, crowded in a space Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]”

4. (figuratively, intransitive)To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something).

   “Your views don’t count here.”

   “It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.”

5. (figuratively, intransitive)To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.

   “Apples count as a type of fruit.”

   “This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.”

   “Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.”

6. (transitive)To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.

   “He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.”

   “I count you as more than a friend.”

   “The entertainment we haue had of him, Is far from villanie or ſeruitude, And might in noble mindes be counted princely.”

7. (transitive)To reckon in, to include in consideration.

   “They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.”

8. (intransitive, obsolete)To take account or note (of), to care (for).

   “[…]to make her faire, that no man counts of her beauty.”

9. (obsolete, transitive)To recount, to tell.
10. (UK, intransitive, obsolete)To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

noun

1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.

   “Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.”

   “Breathe out slowly through your mouth for a count of five.”

2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.

   “By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.”

3. A countdown.
4. A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.

   “Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of possession of a controlled drug with intent to commit a sexual offence.”

   “Anthony Williams (32), of Langford Road, Peterborough, was arrested and charged with ten counts of attempted murder, one count of ABH (Actual Bodily Harm), and one count of possession of a bladed article.”

5. The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.

   “He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.”

6. (obsolete)An object of interest or account; value; estimation.

   “When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.”

7. (slang)Cunt (the taboo swear word)

   “That count deserves a punishment.”

8. The male ruler of a county.

   “After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers and sisters gentlemen and ladies - for what cannot money do?”

9. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
10. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

adj

1. (not-comparable)Countable.

   “For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.”

2. (not-comparable)Used to show the amount of like items in a package.

name

1. A surname.