Countername

• 1

  A surname.

counternoun詞源 1/ˈkaʊn.tə/

• 1

  One who counts.

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

  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

  A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.

• 5

  computingengineeringmathematicsA 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

  A hit counter.

• 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

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

counteradv詞源 2/ˈkaʊn.tə/

• 1

  Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

  • running counter to all the rules of virtue
• 2

  In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.

  • a hound that runs counter
  • She hated being pregnant; it ran counter to everything she wanted from her body

counternoun詞源 2/ˈkaʊn.tə/

• 1

  Something opposite or contrary to something else.

• 2

  governmenthobbieslifestyleA 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

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

• 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

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

• 6

  mediapublishingtypographyThe enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.

• 7

  obsoleteAn encounter.

  • with kindly counter under mimic shade
• 8

  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.

counterverb詞源 2/ˈkaʊn.tə/

• 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.
  • 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. Khan countered 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."
• 2

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

  • His left hand countered provokingly.
• 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

  obsoleteTo encounter.

counteradj詞源 2/ˈkaʊn.tə/

• 1

  Contrary or opposing

  • His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.
  • He could not compel Mrs. Proudie to say that the report was untrue; nor could he condescend to make counter hits at her about her own daughter, as his wife would have done.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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