EGAVE

counter

About 23.96 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun One who counts.
    He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter – he can count to 100.
  2. noun A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
  3. noun 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.
  4. noun A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
  5. noun A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
  6. noun A hit counter.
  7. noun 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.
  8. noun A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.

Similar words

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Often followed by

to the and is in with this that of

Word family

countered countering counters

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