counter

1. 1

   One who counts.

   • He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter – he can count to 100.
2. 2

   A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.

   • 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.
3. 3

   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. 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. 5

   A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.

   • With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable.
6. 6

   A hit counter.Internet

7. 7

   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. 8

   A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.

9. 9

   In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.

10. 10

    In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.

syn. measure word

1. 1

   Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.not-comparable

   • running counter to all the rules of virtue
2. 2

   In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.not-comparable

   • a hound that runs counter

1. 1

   Something opposite or contrary to something else.

2. 2

   A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.

   • Always know a counter to any hold you try against your opponent.
3. 3

   The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

4. 4

   The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).

   • 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 […]
5. 5

   Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.alt-ofalternative

6. 6

   The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

7. 7

   The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.

8. 8

   An encounter.obsolete

   • with kindly counter under mimic shade
9. 9

   counterattack

   • Arsenal lacked urgency and penetration in a lazy, lacklustre opening half, sucked in by Forest's strategy of sitting back in blocks of defence waiting to hit them on the counter.

1. 1

   To contradict, oppose.

   • I don't remember the conversation totally verbatim, yet I remember the tone — increasingly angry on my part, and flippant and snide on his. We countered back and forth at least three times.
2. 2

   To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.

   • His left hand countered provokingly.
3. 3

   To take action in response to; to respond.

   • 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.
4. 4

   To encounter.obsoletetransitive

1. 1

   Contrary or opposingnot-comparable

   • His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.