different between counter vs board

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt?/, [?k?a?????]
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt?/
• Rhymes: -a?nt?(?)
• Hyphenation: count?er

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman countour, from Old French conteor (French comptoir), from Medieval Latin comput?t?rium, from Latin comput?. Doublet of kontor and cantore.

Noun

counter (plural counters)

1. One who counts.

2. A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
3. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.

4. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
5. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
6. (Internet) A hit counter.
7. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted

8. A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
9. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
10. In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
11. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
12. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
    • 1590, John Greenwood, Christopher Bowman's Petition

      He remaynes prisonner in the Counter in Woodstrete in the hole, by the contagiousing wherof he is lyke to perishe

13. (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (grammar) measure word

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old French contre, Anglo-Norman cuntre, both from Latin contra.

Adverb

counter (not comparable)

1. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

   • running counter to all the rules of virtue

2. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.

   a hound that runs counter

   • 2004, Bee Lavender, Maia Rossini, Mamaphonic: Balancing Motherhood and Other Creative Acts

     She hated being pregnant; it ran counter to everything she wanted from her body

   • 1615, George Sandys, The Relation of a Journey begun an. Dom. 1610, in four books

     which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flyer

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:contrarily

Translations

Noun

counter (plural counters)

1. Something opposite or contrary to something else.
2. (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.

3. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
4. The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
   • 1959, J. D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction:

     Seymour, sitting in an old corduroy armchair across the room, a cigarette going, wearing a blue shirt, gray slacks, moccasins with the counters broken down, a shaving cut on the side of his face […]

5. (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
6. The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
7. (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
8. (obsolete) An encounter.

   • with kindly counter under mimic shade

Translations

Verb

counter (third-person singular simple present counters, present participle countering, simple past and past participle countered)

1. To contradict, oppose.
2. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
   • 1857, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago

     His left hand countered provokingly.

3. To take action in response to; to respond.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To encounter.

Translations

Adjective

counter (not comparable)

1. Contrary or opposing

   Synonyms: opposite, contrasted, opposed, adverse, antagonistic

   • a. 1865, Isaac Taylor, Mind in Form

     Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle.

Derived terms

Anagrams

• Cureton, Cutrone, cornute, countre, recount, trounce

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English counter.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k?u?n.t?r/
• Hyphenation: coun?ter

Noun

counter m (plural counters)

1. (chiefly sports, especially soccer) counter-attack, counter

   Synonym: tegenaanval

Related terms

• counteren

Old French

Verb

counter

1. Late Anglo-Norman spelling of conter

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: bôd, IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (General American) enPR: bôrd, IPA^(key): /b??d/
• (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: b?rd, IPA^(key): /bo(?)?d/
• (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: b??d, IPA^(key): /bo?d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d
• Homophone: bored; baud, bawd (nonrhotic accents with the horse–hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English bord, from Old English bord (“board; plank; table; shield; deck; ship; boundary”), from Proto-West Germanic *bord, from Proto-Germanic *burd? (“board; plank; table”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erd?- (“to cut”).

Noun

board (countable and uncountable, plural boards)

1. A relatively long, wide and thin piece of any material, usually wood or similar, often for use in construction or furniture-making.
2. A device (e.g., switchboard) containing electrical switches and other controls and designed to control lights, sound, telephone connections, etc.
3. A flat surface with markings for playing a board game.

   Each player starts the game with four counters on the board.

4. Short for blackboard, whiteboard, chessboard, surfboard, circuit board, message board (on the Internet), etc.
5. A committee that manages the business of an organization, e.g., a board of directors.

6. (uncountable) Regular meals or the amount paid for them in a place of lodging.

7. (nautical) The side of a ship.

   • Now board to board the rival vessels row.

8. (nautical) The distance a sailing vessel runs between tacks when working to windward.
9. (ice hockey, often in the plural) The wall that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
10. (archaic) A long, narrow table, like that used in a medieval dining hall.
11. Paper made thick and stiff like a board, for book covers, etc.; pasteboard.

    to bind a book in boards

12. (video games) A level or stage having a particular layout.
    • 2004, Dan Whitehead, Martyn Carroll, Shaun Bebbington, Future Shocks (in Your Sinclair issue 94)

      The object of the game is to move the smiley face over the preset board, in doing so removing the green squares and ending up at the exit […]
13. (bridge) A container for holding pre-dealt cards that is used to allow multiple sets of players to play the same cards.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (b?do)

Translations

See also

• batten
• beam
• lath
• plank
• pole
• slab
• veneer

Verb

board (third-person singular simple present boards, present participle boarding, simple past and past participle boarded)

1. (transitive) To step or climb onto or otherwise enter a ship, aircraft, train or other conveyance.
   • 1862, Benjamin J. Totten, Naval Text-Book, and Dictionary, for the use of the Midshipmen of the U.S. Navy

     You board an enemy to capture her, and a stranger to receive news or make a communication.

   Antonyms: alight, disembark

2. (transitive) To provide someone with meals and lodging, usually in exchange for money.

   to board one's horse at a livery stable

3. (transitive) To receive meals and lodging in exchange for money.
   • February 8, 1712, Charity Frost, The Spectator No. 296 (letter to the editor)

     We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house,

4. (transitive, nautical) To capture an enemy ship by going alongside and grappling her, then invading her with a boarding party
5. (intransitive) To obtain meals, or meals and lodgings, statedly for compensation
6. (transitive, now rare) To approach (someone); to make advances to, accost.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.iv:

     Ere long with like againe he boorded mee, / Saying, he now had boulted all the floure […]

7. To cover with boards or boarding.

   to board a house

   • the boarded hovel

8. To hit (someone) with a wooden board.
9. (transitive) To write something on a board, especially a blackboard or whiteboard.

Translations

Etymology 2

From backboard

Noun

board (plural boards)

1. (basketball, informal) A rebound.

Translations

Anagrams

• B road, Bardo, Borda, Broad, Broad., Broda, Dobra, abord, adorb, bardo, broad, dobra