Count

count
    n 1: the total number counted; "a blood count"
    2: the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order;
       "the counting continued for several hours" [syn: {count},
       {counting}, {numeration}, {enumeration}, {reckoning},
       {tally}]
    3: a nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a
       British earl
    v 1: determine the number or amount of; "Can you count the books
         on your shelf?"; "Count your change" [syn: {count},
         {number}, {enumerate}, {numerate}]
    2: have weight; have import, carry weight; "It does not matter
       much" [syn: {count}, {matter}, {weigh}]
    3: show consideration for; take into account; "You must consider
       her age"; "The judge considered the offender's youth and was
       lenient" [syn: {consider}, {count}, {weigh}]
    4: name or recite the numbers in ascending order; "The toddler
       could count to 100"
    5: put into a group; "The academy counts several Nobel Prize
       winners among its members" [syn: {count}, {number}]
    6: include as if by counting; "I can count my colleagues in the
       opposition"
    7: have a certain value or carry a certain weight; "each answer
       counts as three points"
    8: have faith or confidence in; "you can count on me to help you
       any time"; "Look to your friends for support"; "You can bet
       on that!"; "Depend on your family in times of crisis" [syn:
       {count}, {bet}, {depend}, {look}, {calculate}, {reckon}]
    9: take account of; "You have to reckon with our opponents";
       "Count on the monsoon" [syn: {reckon}, {count}]
    

Count \Count\, v. i.
   1. 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.
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            This excellent man . . . counted among the best and
            wisest of English statesmen.          --J. A.
                                                  Symonds.
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   2. To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.
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            He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended
            that the government counted on his voice.
                                                  --Macaulay.
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            I think it a great error to count upon the genius of
            a nation as a standing argument in all ages.
                                                  --Swift.
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   3. To take account or note; -- with of. [Obs.] "No man counts
      of her beauty." --Shak.
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   4. (Eng. Law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to
      recite a count. --Burrill.
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Count \Count\ (kount), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Counted}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Counting}.] [OF. conter, and later (etymological
   spelling) compter, in modern French thus distinguished;
   conter to relate (cf. {Recount}, {Account}), compter to
   count; fr. L. computuare to reckon, compute; com- + putare to
   reckon, settle, order, prune, orig., to clean. See {Pure},
   and cf. {Compute}.]
   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.
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            Who can count the dust of Jacob?      --Num. xxiii.
                                                  10.
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            In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only
            three miserable cabins.               --Macaulay.
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   2. To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider
      or esteem as belonging.
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            Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him
            for righteousness.                    --Rom. iv. 3.
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   3. To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or
      consider.
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            I count myself in nothing else so happy
            As in a soul remembering my good friends. --Shak.
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   {To count out}.
      (a) To exclude (one) from consideration; to be assured
          that (one) will not participate or cannot be depended
          upon.
      (b) (House of Commons) To declare adjourned, as a sitting
          of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is
          not present.
      (c) To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a
          fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; -- said
          of a candidate really elected. [Colloq.]

   Syn: To calculate; number; reckon; compute; enumerate. See
        {Calculate}.
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Count \Count\, n. [F. conte, fr. L. comes, comitis, associate,
   companion, one of the imperial court or train, properly, one
   who goes with another; com- + ire to go, akin to Skr. i to
   go.]
   A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an
   English earl.
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   Note: Though the tittle Count has never been introduced into
         Britain, the wives of Earls have, from the earliest
         period of its history, been designated as Countesses.
         --Brande & C.
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   {Count palatine}.
   (a) Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal
       prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of
       Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster.
       [Eng.] See {County palatine}, under {County}.
   (b) Originally, a high judicial officer of the German
       emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was
       granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers
       within his own domains. [Germany]
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Count \Count\, n. [F. conte and compte, with different meanings,
   fr. L. computus a computation, fr. computare. See {Count}, v.
   t.]
   1. The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number
      ascertained by counting.
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            Of blessed saints for to increase the count.
                                                  --Spenser.
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            By this count, I shall be much in years. --Shak.
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   2. An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
      [Obs.] "All his care and count." --Spenser.
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   3. (Law) 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. --Wharton.
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   Note: In the old law books, count was used synonymously with
         declaration. When the plaintiff has but a single cause
         of action, and makes but one statement of it, that
         statement is called indifferently count or declaration,
         most generally, however, the latter. But where the suit
         embraces several causes, or the plaintiff makes several
         different statements of the same cause of action, each
         statement is called a count, and all of them combined,
         a declaration. --Bouvier. Wharton.
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COUNT, pleading. This word, derived from the French conte, a narrative, is 
in our old law books used synonymously with declaration but practice has 
introduced the following distinction: when the plaintiff's complaint 
embraces only a single cause of action, and he makes only one statement of 
it, that statement is called, indifferently, a declaration or count; though 
the former is the more usual term. 
    2. But when the suit embraces two or more causes of action, (each of 
which of course requires a different statement;) or when the plaintiff makes 
two or more different statements of one and the same cause of action, each 
several statement is called a count, and all of them, collectively, 
constitute the declaration. 
    3. In all cases, however, in which there are two or more counts, whether 
there is actually but one cause of action or several, each count purports, 
upon the face of it, to disclose a distinct right of action, unconnected 
with that stated in any of the other counts. 
    4. One object proposed, in inserting two or more counts in one 
declaration, when there is in fact but one cause of action, is, in some 
cases, to guard against the danger of an insufficient statement of the 
cause, where a doubt exists as to the legal sufficiency of one or another of 
two different modes of declaring; but the more usual end proposed in 
inserting more than one count in such case, is to accommodate the statement 
to the cause, as far as may be, to the possible state of the proof to be 
exhibited on trial; or to guard, if possible, against the hazard of the 
proofs varying materially from the statement of the cause of action; so that 
if one or more or several counts be not adapted to the evidence, some other 
of them may be so. Gould on Pl. c. 4, s. 2, 3, 4; Steph. Pl. 279; Doct. Pl. 
1 78; 8 Com. Dig. 291; Dane's Ab. Index, h.t.; Bouv. Inst. Index, h.t. In 
real actions, the declaration is most usually called a count. Steph. Pl. 36, 
See Common count; Money count. 
    

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      accusation, accusing, add up, adjudge, adjudicate, admit,
      aggregate, allegation, allegement, allow, amount,
      amount to something, apportion, archduke, aristocrat, armiger,
      arraignment, article, aspect, assimilate, bank on, baron, baronet,
      batch, be featured, be influential, be judicious, be persuasive,
      be prominent, be regarded, be somebody, be something,
      be thought of, beat, beat a tattoo, beat the drum, beat time,
      bill of particulars, blame, blue blood, body count, box score,
      bringing of charges, bringing to book, budget, bunch, calculate,
      call off, call over, call the roll, capitulation, carry weight,
      case, cast, census, charge, check of, chunk, clutch, complaint,
      complete, comprehend, comprise, compute, consider, contain,
      count in, count of, count on, count the beats, count up, cover,
      cut ice, cut some ice, daimio, datum, deal, decrease, deem,
      delation, denouncement, denunciation, depend on, detail,
      difference, divide, dose, drum, duke, earl, election returns,
      element, embody, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enumerate,
      envisage, esquire, esteem, exercise judgment, express an opinion,
      facet, fact, factor, figure on, figure out, figure up, fill,
      fill in, fill out, fix, foliate, form an opinion, gentleman,
      get top billing, gob, grand duke, grandee, group, have an in,
      have full play, have influence, have personality, have pull,
      head count, heap, hidalgo, hold, hunk, impeachment, implication,
      import, imputation, incidental, include, incorporate, increase,
      indictment, information, innuendo, insinuation, instance,
      inventory, item, judge, keep time, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave,
      landslide, large amount, lawsuit, laying of charges, look on,
      look upon, lord, lordling, lot, magnate, magnifico, margrave,
      marquis, matter, measure, mess, minor detail, minutia, minutiae,
      noble, nobleman, nose count, number, number among, numerate,
      occupy, official count, optimate, pack, page, paginate, palsgrave,
      parcel, part, particular, patrician, peer, pine, plaint, play drum,
      point, poll, portion, pound, presume, product, prosecution,
      quantify, quantity, quantize, rank, rate, ration, recapitulation,
      receive, reckon, reckon among, reckon in, reckon on, reckon with,
      reckoning, recount, recounting, reduce, regard, rehearsal, rely on,
      rely upon, repertory, reproach, respect, returns, ruffle, run over,
      score, seigneur, seignior, signify, silk-stocking, small amount,
      sound a tattoo, squire, stand out, star, statement, suit, sum,
      summary, summation, summing, summing up, suppose, swell, tabs of,
      take in, take into account, take into consideration, take up, tale,
      tally, tally of, tap, taxing, tell, the bottom line, the story,
      the whole story, thing, think of, thoroughbred, thrum, thump,
      tidal wave, tom-tom, total, track of, true bill, trust,
      unspoken accusation, upper-cruster, veiled accusation, viscount,
      waldgrave, weigh, whole, x number