Meaning

One who counts..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who counts.
2. A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
3. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
4. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
5. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
6. (Internet) A hit counter.
7. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted.
8. A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.

Example Sentences

He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter – he can count to 100.

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.

He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.

With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable.

He put his money on the counter, and the shopkeeper put it in the till.

He remaynes prisonner in the Counter in Woodstrete in the hole, by the contagiousing wherof he is lyke to perishe

running counter to all the rules of virtue

a hound that runs counter

Word Forms

• counters
• countering
• countered

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When Should You Use Counter?

Use counter when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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