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Definition of Count

Count

  1. To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
  2. To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
  3. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
  4. To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
  5. To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.
  6. To take account or note; -- with
  7. To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
  8. The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.
  9. An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
  10. A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.
  11. A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.

Count Quotations

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.
Albert Einstein

You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else.
Winston Churchill

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one's own in the midst of abundance.
Buddha

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self.
Aristotle
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Count Translations

count in Afrikaans is tel, in aanmerking kom
count in Dutch is in aanmerking komen, meetellen
count in Finnish is laskea, luetella
count in French is compter, comptent, comptez, comptons, comte
count in Latin is duco
count in Norwegian is telle, greve
count in Portuguese is contagem
count in Spanish is numerar, contar, calcular, recuento

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