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ALL meanings of count out

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  • phrasal verb count out If you count out a sum of money, you count the notes or coins as you put them in a pile one by one. 3
  • phrasal verb count out If you tell someone to count you out, you mean that you do not want to be included in an activity. 3
  • verb count out to leave out; exclude 3
  • verb count out (of a boxing referee) to judge (a floored boxer) to have failed to recover within the specified time 3
  • verb count out to count (something) aloud 3
  • noun count out to disregard; omit 3
  • noun count out to declare (a boxer) defeated when he has remained down for a count of ten 3
  • verb without object count out to list or name numerals in order: to count to 100 by fives. 1
  • verb without object count out to reckon numerically. 1
  • verb without object count out to have a specified numerical value. 1
  • verb without object count out to be accounted or worth something: That first try didn't count—I was just practicing. 1
  • verb without object count out to have merit, importance, value, etc.; deserve consideration: Every bit of help counts. 1
  • verb without object count out to have worth; amount (usually followed by for): Intelligence counts for something. 1
  • noun count out the act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation: A count of hands showed 23 in favor and 16 opposed. 1
  • noun count out the number representing the result of a process of counting; the total number. 1
  • noun count out an accounting. 1
  • noun count out Baseball. the number of balls and strikes, usually designated in that order, that have been called on a batter during a turn at bat: a count of two balls and one strike. 1
  • noun count out Law. a distinct charge or theory of action in a declaration or indictment: He was found guilty on two counts of theft. 1
  • noun count out Textiles. a number representing the size or quality of yarn, especially the number based on the relation of weight to length of the yarn and indicating its degree of coarseness. the number of warp and filling threads per square inch in woven material, representing the texture of the fabric. 1
  • noun count out Bowling. the number of pins struck down by the first ball rolled by a bowler in the frame following a spare and included in the score for the frame in which the spare was made. 1
  • noun count out Physics. a single ionizing reaction registered by an ionization chamber, as in a Geiger counter. the indication of the total number of ionizing reactions registered by an ionization chamber in a given period of time. 1
  • noun count out Archaic. regard; notice. 1
  • noun count out the count, Boxing. the calling aloud by the referee of the seconds from 1 to 10 while a downed boxer remains off his feet. Completion of the count signifies a knockout, which the referee then declares: A hard right sent the challenger down for the count. Also called the full count. 1
  • adjective count out noting a number of items determined by an actual count: The box is labeled 50 count. 1
  • idioms count out count coup. coup1 (def 4). 1
  • transitivephrasal verb count out exclude 1
  • transitivephrasal verb count out distribute 1
  • verb with object count out to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten. 1
  • verb with object count out to reckon up; calculate; compute. 1
  • verb with object count out to list or name the numerals up to: Close your eyes and count ten. 1
  • verb with object count out to include in a reckoning; take into account: There are five of us here, counting me. 1
  • verb with object count out to reckon to the credit of another; ascribe; impute. 1
  • verb with object count out to consider or regard: He counted himself lucky to have survived the crash. 1
  • verb without object count out to count the items of a collection one by one in order to determine the total: She counted three times before she was satisfied that none was missing. 1
  • verb count out (Transitive Verb) (of a person) To exclude; to dismiss from participation or eligibility. 0
  • verb count out (Transitive Verb) To enumerate items while organizing or transferring them. 0
  • verb count out (Transitive Verb) (boxing, wrestling) To determine that a competitor has lost a match, by a referee's enumeration aloud of the increments of time for which the competitor has been incapacitated. 0
  • verb count out (Transitive Verb) To declare adjourned, as a sitting of the House, when it is ascertained that a quorum is not present. 0
  • verb count out (Transitive Verb) To prevent the accession of (a legitimately elected person) to office, by a fraudulent return or count of the votes. 0
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