counter

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj. 副词 adv.
中文释义
英 /ˈkaʊn.tə/    美 /ˈkaʊn.tɚ/|[ˈkaʊ.ɾ̃ɚ]|[ˈkʰaʊ̯.ɾ̃ɚ]|[ˈkʰaʊ̯.nɚ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something opposite or contrary to something else.
  2. One who counts.
    — He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter – he can count to 100.
  3. A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
    — The basic idea is that the researcher conducting the transect (called the counter or enumerator) walks along a set path at certain intervals (hourly, daily, monthly, etc.) and tallies all instances of whatever is being surveyed.
  4. A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
    — Always know a counter to any hold you try against your opponent.
  5. The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
  6. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
    — He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.
  7. The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
    — 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 […]
  8. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
  9. A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
    — With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable.
  10. 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. alt-of,alternative
  11. A hit counter. Internet
  12. The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
  13. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
    — He put his money on the counter, and the shopkeeper put it in the till.
  14. The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
  15. A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
  16. An encounter. obsolete
    — with kindly counter under mimic shade
  17. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
  18. counterattack
    — Arsenal lacked urgency and penetration in a lazy, lacklustre opening half, sucked in by Forest's strategy of sitting back in blocks of defence waiting to hit them on the counter.
  19. In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
  20. Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
  21. The prison attached to a city court; a compter. historical
    — He remaynes prisonner in the Counter in Woodstrete in the hole, by the contagiousing wherof he is lyke to perishe
  22. 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.
动词 v.
  1. To contradict, oppose.
    — I don't remember the conversation totally verbatim, yet I remember the tone — increasingly angry on my part, and flippant and snide on his. We countered back and forth at least three times.
  2. To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
    — His left hand countered provokingly.
  3. To take action in response to; to respond.
    — David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.
  4. To encounter. obsolete,transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Contrary or opposing not-comparable
    — His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.
副词 adv.
  1. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction. not-comparable
    — running counter to all the rules of virtue
  2. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course. not-comparable
    — a hound that runs counter

词形变化

counters plural counters plural counters present,singular,third-person countering participle,present countered participle,past countered past

词汇关系

近义词
measure word
衍生词
abbey counter anticounter axle counter bargaining counter bean counter bean-counter behind the counter card counter checkout counter clicker counter colony counter counter batten counter check counter clockwise counter culture counterful counterhand counter intelligence counterjumper counterless counterlike counterman counter password counter payment counterperson counterside counter statement counter strategy counter surf countertop counterwoman counterworker cross-counter decade counter frame counter Geiger counter Geiger-Müller counter hard counter head counter hit counter liquid scintillation counter lunch counter multicounter nail to the counter non-over-the-counter nucleocounter over the counter over-the-counter photocounter pollen counter program counter rev counter rivet counter run counter scintillation counter soda counter span counter time elapsed counter trade counter under the counter under-the-counter

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English countour, from Old French conteor (French comptoir), from Medieval Latin computātōrium, from Latin computō, equivalent to count + -er. Doublet of cantore, computer, and kontor.
词源 2
From Old French contre, Anglo-Norman cuntre, both from Latin contra.
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