LekhoriLekhoriThe act of counting or tallying a quantity.
Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
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.
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’.
Used to show the amount of like items in a package.
From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“I compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, w...
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To amount to, to number in total.
They counted thirty, crowded in a space Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]
The male ruler of a county.