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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
detail
English
Etymology
French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- (noun)
- (UK) IPA(key): /?di?te?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /?dite?l/, (also) /d??te?l/
- (UK) IPA(key): /?di?te?l/
- (verb)
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??te?l/, /?di?te?l/
- (US) IPA(key): /d??te?l/, /?dite?l/
- (UK) IPA(key): /d??te?l/, /?di?te?l/
- Rhymes: -i?te?l, -e?l
- Hyphenation: de?tail
Noun
detail (countable and uncountable, plural details)
- (countable) Something small enough to escape casual notice.
- (uncountable) A profusion of details.
- (uncountable) The small things that can escape casual notice.
- Something considered trivial enough to ignore.
- (countable) A person's name, address and other personal information.
- (military, law enforcement) A temporary unit or assignment.
- An individual feature, fact, or other item, considered separately from the whole of which it is a part.
- A narrative which relates minute points; an account which dwells on particulars.
- (paintings) a selected portion of a painting
Synonyms
- (something considered trivial enough to ignore): minutia, technicality, trifle, triviality
- (personal information): particulars
- (military: temporary unit): contingent, detachment
- (paintings): portion, section
Derived terms
- in detail
- detail-oriented
- security detail
Translations
See also
- deets
- overview
- bird's-eye view
- big picture
Verb
detail (third-person singular simple present details, present participle detailing, simple past and past participle detailed)
- (transitive) To explain in detail.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- It is a sunny morning in Amman and the three uniformed judges in Jordan’s state security court are briskly working their way through a pile of slim grey folders on the bench before them. Each details the charges against 25 or so defendants accused of supporting the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis), now rampaging across Syria and Iraq under their sinister black banners and sending nervous jitters across the Arab world.
- 2014, Ian Black, "Courts kept busy as Jordan works to crush support for Isis", The Guardian, 27 November 2014:
- (transitive) To clean carefully (particularly of road vehicles) (always pronounced. /?di?te?l/)
- (transitive, military) to assign to a particular task
Synonyms
- (to explain in detail): specify
- (military: to assign to a particular task): detach
Derived terms
- detailing
Translations
Anagrams
- atelid, dietal, dilate, laited, tailed
Czech
Pronunciation
Noun
detail m
- detail
Declension
Synonyms
- podrobnost f
Related terms
- detailní
Further reading
- detail in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- detail in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from French détail, from Middle French [Term?], from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /de??t?i?/
- Hyphenation: de?tail
- Rhymes: -?i?
Noun
detail n (plural details, diminutive detailtje n)
- detail
Derived terms
- detailhandel
- detaillist
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: detail
Indonesian
Etymology
From Dutch detail, from French détail, from Old French detail, from detaillier, from de- + taillier (“to cut”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d?ta?l/
- Hyphenation: dê?ta?il
Noun
dêtail (first-person possessive detailku, second-person possessive detailmu, third-person possessive detailnya)
- detail.
Alternative forms
- detil
Derived terms
Further reading
- “detail” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
detail From the web:
- what details mean
- what details can be observed in the painting
- what detail in this excerpt further complicates
- what do details mean
- what does details mean
- which details or what details
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