different between count vs size

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.

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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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?z/
• Rhymes: -a?z
• Homophones: psis, sighs

Etymology 1

From Middle English syse, sise (“regulation, control, limit”), from Old French cise, sise, aphetism of assise (“assize”). Displaced native Middle English grete, grette (“size”) (from Old English gr?etu, gr?tu (“size, greatness”)).

Noun

size (countable and uncountable, plural sizes)

1. (obsolete outside dialects) An assize. [from 14th c.]
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, page 560:

     I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size, that no one is above the law.

2. (obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc. [14th-18th c.]
3. (obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink. [15th-17th c.]
4. The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is. [from 15th c.]

5. (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance. [15th c.]
6. A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing. [from 16th c.]

7. (graph theory) A number of edges in a graph. [from 20th c.]
8. (figuratively, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
   • 1692, Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists

     men of a less size and quality

   • 1720, Jonathan Swift, A Letter to a Young Clergyman

     the middle or lower size of people

9. An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.

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10. (computing) file size

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:size

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• Chinese:
  • ? Cantonese: size (saai1 si2)
• ? Irish: saghas
• ? Japanese: ??? (saizu)
• ? Korean: ??? (saijeu)

Translations

Verb

size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)

1. (transitive) To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.

   • a statute […] to size weights, and measures

2. (transitive) To classify or arrange by size.
   1. (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
   2. (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
3. (transitive, colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
4. (intransitive) To take a greater size; to increase in size.
   • after 1633 (first published), John Donne, Farewell to Love

     Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size, grow.

5. (Britain, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
6. (transitive, obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.

   • blood-sized field

Hyponyms

• (to adjust size): resize

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English syse, of unclear origin; related to Old Italian sisa (“a glue used by painters”), perhaps ultimately related to size / syse (“amount”), or perhaps shortened from assisa, from assiso (“to make to sit, to seat, to place”)

Noun

size (plural sizes)

2. A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
3. Wallpaper paste.
4. The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
5. Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.

Translations

Verb

size (third-person singular simple present sizes, present participle sizing, simple past and past participle sized)

1. (transitive) To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.

Translations

References

See also

• Size in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Chinese

Alternative forms

• ??, ??

Etymology

Borrowed from English size.

Pronunciation

Noun

size

1. (Cantonese) size

   • ???????????????size????????????????????????????????size? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ???????????????size????????????????????????????????size? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2015, ???, ??? ???, ?????, issue 40, page 79

     jau⁵ jat¹ go³ so⁴ zai² zeng⁶ jan⁴ sin¹ jung⁶ sing^4-2 dok⁶ zi⁶ gei² goek³ dik¹ saai¹ si², jau⁵ jat¹ jat⁶ soeng² maai⁵ haai⁴, bat¹ gwo³ heoi³ dou³ si⁵ zaap⁶ sin¹ faat³ jin⁶ zi⁶ gei² mou⁵ daai³ tiu⁴ sing^4-2, so² ji⁵ m⁴ zi¹ maai⁵ haai⁴ maai⁵ me¹ saai¹ si². [Jyutping]

     There was a stupid guy from Zheng who used only a string to measure the size of his feet; one day, he wanted to buy shoes, but only when he got to the market did he realize that he didn't bring his string, so he didn't know what shoe size to buy.

   • ??????????????????size??? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ???????????????“??size??” [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2016, Jerald Li, ??????size??15?????size??

     ging¹ soeng⁴ zoi⁶ mong⁵ soeng⁶ gin³ dou^3-2 jau⁵ jan⁴ man⁶ sam⁶ mo¹ bo¹ haai⁴ jing¹ “maai⁵ me¹ saai¹ si² hou²?” [Jyutping]

     I always see people online asking something like "What size should I buy?" for sneakers

   • ?????size???????? [Cantonese, trad.]
     ?????size???????? [Cantonese, simp.]

     From: 2016, ??? (Daniel Chong), ????CEO, page 104

     daai³ zyu⁶ deoi³ m⁴ ngaam¹ saai¹ si² ge³ baak⁶ sik¹ lou⁴ gung¹ sau² tou³ zai² [Jyutping]

     wearing white workers' gloves of the wrong size

Synonyms

• ?? (ch?cùn)

Turkish

Pronoun

size

1. dative of siz (you – plural or polite)

Turkmen

Noun

size

1. dative plural of siz