different between count vs proposition

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English proposicioun, from Old French proposicion, from Latin pr?positi?, from the verb pr?pon?.

Pronunciation

• (US) enPR: präp'?-z?sh??n IPA^(key): /?p??p??z???n/
• Rhymes: -???n
• Hyphenation: prop?o?si?tion

Noun

proposition (countable and uncountable, plural propositions)

1. (uncountable) The act of offering (an idea) for consideration.
2. (countable) An idea or a plan offered.
3. (countable, business settings) The terms of a transaction offered.
4. (countable, US, politics) In some states, a proposed statute or constitutional amendment to be voted on by the electorate.
5. (grammar) A complete sentence.
   • c. 1888, The Popular Educator: a Complete Encyclopaedia of Elementary, Advanced, and Technical Education. New and Revised Edition. Volume I., p.98:

     Our English nouns remain unchanged, whether they form the subject or the object of a proposition.

6. (countable, logic) The content of an assertion that may be taken as being true or false and is considered abstractly without reference to the linguistic sentence that constitutes the assertion; (Aristotelian logic) a predicate of a subject that is denied or affirmed and connected by a copula.

7. (countable, mathematics) An assertion so formulated that it can be considered true or false.
8. (countable, mathematics) An assertion which is provably true, but not important enough to be called a theorem.
9. A statement of religious doctrine; an article of faith; creed.

   the propositions of Wyclif and Huss

   • 1654, Jeremy Taylor, XXVIII Sermons preached at Golden Grove […]

     Some persons […] change their propositions according as their temporal necessities or advantages do turn.

10. (poetry) The part of a poem in which the author states the subject or matter of it.
11. Misspelling of preposition.

Synonyms

• (act of offering an idea for consideration): proposal, suggestion
• (idea or plan offered): proposal, suggestion
• (terms offered): proposal
• (content of an assertion): statement
• (proposed statute or constitutional amendment):

Derived terms

• propositional

Translations

Verb

proposition (third-person singular simple present propositions, present participle propositioning, simple past and past participle propositioned)

1. (transitive, informal) To make a suggestion of sexual intercourse to (someone with whom one is not sexually involved).
2. (transitive, informal) To make an offer or suggestion to (someone).

Related terms

• propose

Translations

Anagrams

• opistoporin

Finnish

Noun

proposition

1. Genitive singular form of propositio.

French

Etymology

From Latin pr?positi? (“statement, proposition”), from pr?p?n? (“propose”), from p?n? (“place; assume”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p??.po.zi.sj??/
• Homophone: propositions

Noun

proposition f (plural propositions)

1. proposition, suggestion
2. (grammar) proposition
3. (grammar) clause

Further reading

• “proposition” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle English

Noun

proposition

1. Alternative form of proposicioun

Norman

Etymology

From Latin pr?positi?, pr?positi?nem.

Noun

proposition f (plural propositions)

1. (Jersey) proposition
2. (Jersey, grammar) clause

Derived terms

• proposition prîncipale (“main clause”)
• proposition s'gondaithe (“subordinate clause”)

Swedish

Noun

proposition c

1. a proposition, a government bill (draft of a law, proposed by the government)

Usage notes

• bills introduced by members of parliament are called motion

Declension

Related terms

• budgetproposition
• forskningsproposition
• försvarsproposition
• kompletteringsproposition
• kulturproposition
• propositionell
• statsverksproposition

References