2019, Li Huang, James Lambert, “Another Arrow for the Quiver: A New Methodology for Multilingual Researchers”, inJournal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development,→DOI, page 4:
The basic idea is that the researcher conducting the transect (called thecounter orenumerator) walks along a set path at certain intervals (hourly, daily, monthly, etc.) and tallies all instances of whatever is being surveyed.
Anobject (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as amarker ingames, etc.
He rolled a six on the dice, so moved hiscounter forward six spaces.
Atelltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
He remaynes prisonner in theCounter in Woodstrete in the hole, by the contagiousing wherof he is lyke to perishe
(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. "20head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
Seymour, sitting in an old corduroy armchair across the room, a cigarette going, wearing a blue shirt, gray slacks, moccasins with thecounters broken down, a shaving cut on the side of his face[…]
(music)Alternative form ofcontra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent tocountertenor.
Thebreast of ahorse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
2024 January 30, Phil McNulty, “Nottingham Forest 1-2 Arsenal: Gunners in title race after they close gap to leaders Liverpool”, inBBC Sport[1]:
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 thecounter.
1979 February 10, Pat M. Kuras, “The Rubber Gun Backfires”, inGay Community News, volume 6, number28, page 5:
I don't remember the conversation totally verbatim, yet I remember the tone — increasingly angry on my part, and flippant and snide on his. Wecountered back and forth at least three times.
2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, inRAIL, number948, page 8:
In a war of words that has broken out between Khan and Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapps, the Mayor was accused of sending revenue-raising proposals to Shapps some three weeks late, giving him little choice but to extend negotiations. Khancountered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
1857,Charles Kingsley, “(please specify the page)”, inTwo Years Ago, volume(please specify |volume=I to III), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire:Macmillan and Co.,→OCLC:
David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital tocounter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.
He could not compel Mrs. Proudie to say that the report was untrue; nor could he condescend to makecounter hits at her about her own daughter, as his wife would have done.
1944 November and December, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—II”, inRailway Magazine, page342:
It was, however, most interesting work, and the moulders themselves were a decent crowd, never tired of making jokes about themselves such as the hoary one that moulders did not live long, which however rancounter to the other one that no germs could live in a foundry—the atmosphere was too foul.
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in-er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified toz,t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
