count : Idioms & Phrases

• noun the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample
  
• noun the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample
  

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• noun a count of troops killed in an operation or time period
  
  • the daily body count increased as the war went on

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• noun counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood
  CBC; blood profile.
  

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• noun Italian who was famous as a magician and alchemist (1743-1795)
  Giuseppe Balsamo; Cagliostro.
  

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• noun Italian physicist after whom the volt is named; studied electric currents and invented the voltaic pile (1745-1827)
  Volta; Conte Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta; Conte Alessandro Volta.
  

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• verb count backwards; before detonating a bomb, for example
  

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• noun German inventor who designed and built the first rigid motorized dirigible (1838-1917)
  Zeppelin.
  

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• noun thoroughbred that won the triple crown in 1943
  

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• noun Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910)
  Tolstoy; Leo Tolstoy.
  

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• noun Belgian playwright (1862-1949)
  Maeterlinck.
  

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• noun German theologian (1700-1760)
  Zinzendorf.
  

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• noun a noun that forms plurals
  

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• verb call in turn from right to left or from back to front numbers that determine some position or function
  

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• verb judge to be probable
  calculate; figure; reckon; forecast; estimate.
  

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• verb declare the loser
  

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• noun a count who exercised royal authority in his own domain
  

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• . (a) Formerly, the proprietor of a county who possessed royal prerogatives within his county, as did the Earl of Chester, the Bishop of Durham, and the Duke of Lancaster. Eng. See County palatine, under County. (b) Originally, a high judicial officer of the German emperors; afterward, the holder of a fief, to whom was granted the right to exercise certain imperial powers within his own domains. Germany

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• noun frequency per minute
  counts/minute.
  

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• noun English physicist (born in America) who studied heat and friction; experiments convinced him that heat is caused by moving particles (1753-1814)
  Thompson; Benjamin Thompson.
  

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Count"-wheel` noun

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1. The wheel in a clock which regulates the number of strokes.

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• noun counting the number of specific types of white blood cells found in 1 cubic millimeter of blood; may be included as part of a complete blood count
  

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• noun number of people in a particular group
  headcount.
  

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• adjective satellite without merit
  no-good; meritless; no-account; good-for-naught; sorry; good-for-nothing.
  
  • a sorry horse
  • a sorry excuse
  • a lazy no-count, good-for-nothing goldbrick
  • the car was a no-good piece of junk

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• noun a periodic count of the population
  census; nosecount.
  

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• noun the number of pollen grains (usually ragweed) in a standard volume of air over a twenty-four hour period and a specified time and place
  

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• noun the number of sperm in an ejaculate
  
  • the sperm count is used as an indicator of male fertility
• noun the act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate
  

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• verb be counted out; remain down while the referee counts to ten
  remain down.
  

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• . (a) To exclude (one) will not particapate or cannot be depended upon. (b) (House of Commons) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present. (c) To prevent the accession of (a person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes cast; said of a candidate really elected. Colloq.

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