Sekirov Dictionary

counter

UK /ˈkaʊn.tə/US /ˈkaʊn.tɚ/

noun 21
verb 4
adverb 2
adjective 1
forms 3
phrases 3

noun21

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a table that separates shop or bank workers from the people who come to pay or buy
- He put his money on the counter, and the shopkeeper put it in the till.
A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
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A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable. — 2006
(Internet) A hit counter.
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An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.
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A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- Always know a counter to any hold you try against your opponent.
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counterattack
- Arsenal lacked urgency and penetration in a lazy, lacklustre opening half, sucked in by Forest's strategy of sitting back in blocks of defence waiting to hit them on the counter. — 2024
Something opposite or contrary to something else.
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One who counts.
- He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter – he can count to 100.
A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
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The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
- Seymour, sitting in an old corduroy armchair across the room, a cigarette going, wearing a blue shirt, gray slacks, moccasins with the counters broken down, a shaving cut on the side of his face […] — 1959
A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
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(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
- He remaynes prisonner in the Counter in Woodstrete in the hole, by the contagiousing wherof he is lyke to perishe — 1590
(no longer used) An encounter.

verb4

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To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
- His left hand countered provokingly. — 1857
To take action in response to; to respond.
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To contradict, oppose.
- I don't remember the conversation totally verbatim, yet I remember the tone — increasingly angry on my part, and flippant and snide on his. We countered back and forth at least three times. — 1979
(no longer used) To encounter.

adverb2

Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
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In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
- She hated being pregnant; it ran counter to everything she wanted from her body — 2004

adjective1

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Contrary or opposing
- His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.

forms

countered · countering · counters

Phrases with counter

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