different between connote vs count

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin connot? (“signify beyond literal meaning”), from com- (“together”), + not? (“mark”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k??n??t/, /k??n??t/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k??no?t/
• Rhymes: -??t

Verb

connote (third-person singular simple present connotes, present participle connoting, simple past and past participle connoted)

1. (transitive) To signify beyond its literal or principal meaning.

   Racism often connotes an underlying fear or ignorance.

2. (transitive) To possess an inseparable related condition; to imply as a logical consequence.

   Poverty connotes hunger.

3. (intransitive) To express without overt reference; to imply.
4. (intransitive) To require as a logical predicate to consequence.

Synonyms

• (possess an inseparable condition): entail, imply
• (express without overt reference): entail, imply
• (require as a logical predicate): predicate

Related terms

• connotation
• connotative
• connotatively
• connotive

Translations

See also

• denote

Anagrams

• contone

Asturian

Verb

connote

1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive of connotar

French

Verb

connote

1. inflection of connoter:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

Spanish

Verb

connote

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of connotar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of connotar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of connotar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of connotar.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /ka?nt/
• Rhymes: -a?nt

Etymology 1

From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computare, present active infinitive of comput? (“I compute”). Displaced native Middle English tellen (“to count”) (from Old English tellan) and Middle English rimen (“to count, enumerate”) (from Old English r?man). Doublet of compute.

Verb

count (third-person singular simple present counts, present participle counting, simple past and past participle counted)

1. (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.

2. (transitive) To determine the number (of objects in a group).
3. (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.

4. (intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
   • 1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney

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

5. (transitive) To consider something an example of something.

6. (obsolete) To take account or note (of).
7. (Britain, law) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Burrill to this entry?)

Synonyms

• (determine the number of objects in a group): enumerate, number; see also Thesaurus:count

Derived terms

Related terms

• compute

Translations

Noun

count (plural counts)

1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.

2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
3. A countdown.
4. (law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
5. (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.

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

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

count (not comparable)

1. (linguistics, grammar) Countable.

Etymology 2

From Middle English counte, from Anglo-Norman conte and Old French comte (“count”), from Latin comes (“companion”) (more specifically derived from its accusative form comitem) in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king". Doublet of comes and comte.

Noun

count (plural counts)

1. The male ruler of a county.
2. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
3. (entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

Synonyms

• (English counts): earl
• (French counts): comte
• (Italian counts): conte
• (German counts): graf

Derived terms

• viscount
• count palatine, count palatinate

Related terms

• (female form or wife): countess, contessa
• (adjectival form): comital
• (related titles): baron, don, duke, earl, lord, prince

Translations

Anagrams

• no-cut

Middle English

Noun

count

1. Alternative form of cunte