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Counting   /kˈaʊntɪŋ/  /kˈaʊnɪŋ/   Listen
Counting

noun
1.
The act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order.  Synonyms: count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally.


Count

verb
(past & past part. counted; pres. part. counting)
1.
Determine the number or amount of.  Synonyms: enumerate, number, numerate.  "Count your change"
2.
Have weight; have import, carry weight.  Synonyms: matter, weigh.
3.
Show consideration for; take into account.  Synonyms: consider, weigh.  "The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient"
4.
Name or recite the numbers in ascending order.
5.
Put into a group.  Synonym: number.
6.
Include as if by counting.
7.
Have a certain value or carry a certain weight.
8.
Have faith or confidence in.  Synonyms: bet, calculate, depend, look, reckon.  "Look to your friends for support" , "You can bet on that!" , "Depend on your family in times of crisis"
9.
Take account of.  Synonym: reckon.  "Count on the monsoon"



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"Counting" Quotes from Famous Books



... "We are counting on that to get even with him," said the captain. "If we catch him for only an hour we shall put a bullet in his head. He'll do the same to us if he meets us, ...
— The Chouans • Honore de Balzac
... finger on the slender wrist, counting its pulsations, while father and grandfather stood looking on in anxious solicitude, and the mother bent over her fading flower, asking in tender whispered accents, "are you in pain, ...
— Elsie's children • Martha Finley
... illustrations, the former are concealed by the pews. It will be noticed as a peculiar feature that a little piece of the outer moulding, facing the nave, of the first large arch on the south side is differently carved from all the rest: first, counting from the bottom upwards, are three eight-leaved flowers—these are succeeded by three four-leaved flowers, all on a chamfered edge; above this the moulding is not chamfered, and the outer face is decorated ...
— Bell's Cathedrals: Wimborne Minster and Christchurch Priory • Thomas Perkins
... flies, the length of this line, from the Gulf of Riga to the Rumanian border was six hundred and twenty miles. Actually, counting its many turns and twists and salients, it covered more than seven hundred and fifty miles. From the Gulf to the Pripet River the eastern front was held by German troops ...
— The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) • Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
... villa-farm with a very moderate gang of slaves under him. I do not own any more slaves on my estate. The slaves on the farms are all owned by my tenants and there are eight farms besides the villa- farm; counting Chryseros, there are nine tenant farmers. Each owns slaves enough to work his farms. All the estates about here are managed in that way: Aemilian, Vedian, Satronian, Entedian and all the rest, big ...
— Andivius Hedulio • Edward Lucas White


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