count

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
/kaʊnt/    /kaʊnt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The male ruler of a county.
    — After his marriage, John made a progress through the country with his beautiful Elizabeth, and they purchased towns and villages and lands until he became master of nearly half Rügen, and a very considerable count in the country. His father, old James Dietrich, was made a noble-man, and his brothers and sisters gentlemen and ladies - for what cannot money do?
  2. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
    — Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
  3. A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
  4. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
    — By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.
  5. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.
  6. A countdown.
  7. A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
    — Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of possession of a controlled drug with intent to commit a sexual offence.
  8. The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
    — He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.
  9. An object of interest or account; value; estimation. obsolete
    — When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.
  10. Cunt (the taboo swear word) slang
    — That count deserves a punishment.
动词 v.
  1. To recite numbers in sequence. intransitive
    — Can you count to a hundred?
  2. To determine the number of (objects in a group). transitive
    — Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.
  3. To amount to, to number in total. intransitive
    — They counted thirty, crowded in a space Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]
  4. To be of significance; to matter; to be considered (as something); to be included (of something). figuratively,intransitive
    — Your views don’t count here.
  5. To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun. figuratively,intransitive
    — Apples count as a type of fruit.
  6. To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as. transitive
    — He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.
  7. To reckon in, to include in consideration. transitive
    — They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.
  8. To take account or note (of), to care (for). intransitive,obsolete
    — […]to make her faire, that no man counts of her beauty.
  9. To recount, to tell. obsolete,transitive
  10. To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count. UK,intransitive,obsolete
形容词 adj.
  1. Countable. not-comparable
    — For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.
  2. Used to show the amount of like items in a package. not-comparable

词形变化

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词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin com-
Latin putus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin putō
Latin computō
Anglo-Norman counterbor.
Middle English counten
English count
From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.
Compare typologically reckon, Russian счита́ть (sčitátʹ), счита́ться (sčitátʹsja); the semantic evolution to Mongolian санах (sanax).
词源 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, comte, and conte.
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