different between counter vs tent

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

• enPR: t?nt, IPA^(key): /t?nt/
  • (pin–pen merger) IPA^(key): /t?nt/
    • Homophone: tint
• Rhymes: -?nt
• Homophone: tint (with pin-pen merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English tente, borrowed from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta (“tent”), from the feminine of Latin tentus, ptp. of tendere (“to stretch, extend”). Displaced native Middle English tild, tilt (“tent, tilt”), from Old English teld (“tent”). Compare Spanish tienda (“store, shop; tent”).

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. A pavilion or portable lodge consisting of skins, canvas, or some strong cloth, stretched and sustained by poles, used for sheltering people from the weather.

2. (archaic) The representation of a tent used as a bearing.
3. (Scotland) A portable pulpit set up outside to accommodate worshippers who cannot fit into a church.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     A splendid tent was erected on the brae north of the town, and round that the countless congregation assembled.

4. A trouser tent; a piece of fabric, etc. protruding outward like a tent.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (intransitive) To go camping.

   We’ll be tented at the campground this weekend.

2. (cooking) To prop up aluminum foil in an inverted "V" (reminiscent of a pop-up tent) over food to reduce splatter, before putting it in the oven.
3. (intransitive) To form into a tent-like shape.

   The sheet tented over his midsection.

Translations

See also

• camp
• lean-to
• lodge
• pavilion, pavillion
• pitch
• tarp

Etymology 2

From Middle English tent (“attention”), aphetic variation of attent (“attention”), from Old French atente (“attention, intention”), from Latin attenta, feminine of attentus, past participle of attendere (“to attend”).

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) To attend to; to heed
2. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) to guard; to hinder.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. (archaic, Britain, Scotland, dialect) Attention; regard, care.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Lydgate to this entry?)

2. (archaic) Intention; design.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

Etymology 3

From Middle English tente (“a probe”), from Middle French tente, deverbal of tenter, from Latin tent?re (“to probe, test”), alteration of tempt?re (“to test, probe, tempt”).

Noun

tent (plural tents)

2. (medicine) A roll of lint or linen, or a conical or cylindrical piece of sponge or other absorbent, used chiefly to dilate a natural canal, to keep open the orifice of a wound, or to absorb discharges.
3. (medicine) A probe for searching a wound.

Verb

tent (third-person singular simple present tents, present participle tenting, simple past and past participle tented)

1. (medicine, sometimes figuratively) To probe or to search with a tent; to keep open with a tent.

   to tent a wound

Etymology 4

From Spanish tinto (“deep-colored”), from Latin tinctus, past participle of tingo (“to dye”). More at tinge, tint, tinto. Compare claret (“French red wine”), also from color.

Noun

tent (plural tents)

1. (archaic) A kind of wine of a deep red color, chiefly from Galicia or Malaga in Spain; called also tent wine, and tinta.

See also

• claret, hock, sack

Anagrams

• Nett, nett

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch tente, from Old French tente, from Vulgar Latin *tenta or *tenda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?nt/
• Hyphenation: tent
• Rhymes: -?nt

Noun

tent m (plural tenten, diminutive tentje n)

1. tent (for camping, special occasions, etc.)
2. pavillion

   Synonym: paviljoen

3. (informal, Dutch, often in compounds) a building, especially one used for commercial purposes

   Synonym: keet

Derived terms

• circustent
• hottentottententententoonstelling
• kermistent

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tent

1. past participle of tenne

Southern Kam

Adjective

tent

1. short