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worktable
English
Etymology
work +? table
Noun
worktable (plural worktables)
- A table designed for work of a specific type.
- (historical) A small table used by ladies for doing needlework.
Translations
Anagrams
- tablework
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counter
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)
- One who counts.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- (Internet) A hit counter.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
- In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
- In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
- (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
- (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
- 1590, John Greenwood, Christopher Bowman's Petition
- (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)
- Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
- running counter to all the rules of virtue
- 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)
- Something opposite or contrary to something else.
- (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
- (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
- 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 […]
- 1959, J. D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction:
- (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.
- The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
- (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
- (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)
- To contradict, oppose.
- (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
- 1857, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago
- His left hand countered provokingly.
- 1857, Charles Kingsley, Two Years Ago
- To take action in response to; to respond.
- (transitive, obsolete) To encounter.
Translations
Adjective
counter (not comparable)
- 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)
- (chiefly sports, especially soccer) counter-attack, counter
- Synonym: tegenaanval
Related terms
- counteren
Old French
Verb
counter
- 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.
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