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count
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)
- (intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.
- (transitive) To determine the number (of objects in a group).
- (intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
- (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.
- 1886, John Addington Symonds, Sir Philip Sidney
- (transitive) To consider something an example of something.
- (obsolete) To take account or note (of).
- (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)
- The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
- The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
- A countdown.
- (law) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
- (baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
- (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
Derived terms
Translations
Adjective
count (not comparable)
- (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)
- The male ruler of a county.
- A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
- (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
- Alternative form of cunte
count From the web:
- what county am i in
- what country
- what country am i in
- what countries are communist
- what county am i in right now
- what county is manhattan in
- what country has the highest population
- what country is dubai in
condition
English
Etymology
From Middle English condicioun, from Old French condicion (French condition), from Latin condicio. Unetymological change in spelling due to confusion with conditio.
Pronunciation
- enPR: k?nd?sh??n, IPA(key): /k?n?d???n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
condition (countable and uncountable, plural conditions)
- A logical clause or phrase that a conditional statement uses. The phrase can either be true or false.
- A requirement or requisite.
- (law) A clause in a contract or agreement indicating that a certain contingency may modify the principal obligation in some way.
- The health status of a medical patient.
- Synonym: fettle
- A certain abnormal state of health; a malady or sickness.
- The state or quality.
- A particular state of being.
- (obsolete) The situation of a person or persons, particularly their social and/or economic class, rank.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- conditional
- precondition
Related terms
- condition subsequent
- in condition
- statement of condition
Translations
Verb
condition (third-person singular simple present conditions, present participle conditioning, simple past and past participle conditioned)
- To subject to the process of acclimation.
- To subject to different conditions, especially as an exercise.
- To make dependent on a condition to be fulfilled; to make conditional on.
- (transitive) To place conditions or limitations upon.
- To shape the behaviour of someone to do something.
- (transitive) To treat (the hair) with hair conditioner.
- (transitive) To contract; to stipulate; to agree.
- (transitive) To test or assay, as silk (to ascertain the proportion of moisture it contains).
- (Can we find and add a quotation of McElrath to this entry?)
- (US, colleges, transitive) To put under conditions; to require to pass a new examination or to make up a specified study, as a condition of remaining in one's class or in college.
- To impose upon an object those relations or conditions without which knowledge and thought are alleged to be impossible.
Derived terms
- air-condition
- conditioner
- precondition
- recondition
Translations
French
Etymology
From Middle French condition, from Old French condicion, Borrowed from Latin condici?, condici?nis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /k??.di.sj??/
Noun
condition f (plural conditions)
- term, condition
- condition, state
- en bonne condition - In good condition
- social status, walk of life
- Le couple se contentait de soirées entre amis de conditions diverses. — The couple was content with partying with friends from all walks of life.
Derived terms
- à condition que
- à condition de
- condition suffisante
- conditionnel
- conditions de vie
Further reading
- “condition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French condicion, from Latin condicio
Noun
condition f (plural conditions)
- condition (state, quality)
Descendants
- French: condition
condition From the web:
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- what conditions qualify for disability
- what condition promotes the growth of bacteria
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