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Uttal

  • GenAm:
    • IPA: /ˈkaʊntɚ/
  • RP:
    • IPA: /ˈkaʊntə/
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /ˈkaʊn.tə(ɹ)/
Översättning
Substantiv
1.sayaç

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
  2. (obsolete) An encounter.
  3. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
  4. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
  5. (nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
  6. (by extension) The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
  7. 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.
  8. (music) Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
  9. One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
  10. The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
  11. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
  12. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
  13. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
  14. (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.
  15. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations take place.
  16. (wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
  17. (computing, programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
  18. (computing, Internet) A hit counter.

Adverb

  1. In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
  2. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
  3. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
  4. At or against the front or face.

Adjektiv

  1. Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.

Verb

  1. To contradict, oppose.
  2. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
  3. To take action in response to; to respond.

Exempel

  • He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.
  • He put his money on the counter, and the shopkeeper put it in the till.
  • He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter - he can count to 100.
  • Always know a counter to any hold you try against your opponent.
  • Running counter to all the rules of virtue. -Locks.
  • 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 [...].
  • 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.
  • His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.
  • Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle.
  • running counter to all the rules of virtue
  • This is counter, you false Danish dogs!
  • a hound that runs counter
  • which [darts] they never throw counter, but at the back of the flier
  • with kindly counter under mimic shade

Böjningsformer

Perfektparticipcountered
Imperfektcountered
Presensparticipcountering
Pluralcounters
Tredje person singular indicativ presenscounters