Uncount
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Uncount is a verb meaning (ambitransitive) To deduct from a count; discount or subtract.
Meaning
(ambitransitive) To deduct from a count; discount or subtract.
More Meanings
- (linguistics, grammar) Uncountable.
Example Sentences
Children accomplish learning how to count, and then almost immediately they have to learn how to 'uncount', that is, subtract.
The jar rocks and falls, allowing the mice to 'uncount' themselves from the jar. The large mouse turns out to be a rock and the snake is left hungry.
For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.
Word Forms
- uncounts
- uncounting
- uncounted
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include unnumbered, incalculable, infinite, unnumberable, innumerable, numberless.
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