📒 to say numbers in the correct order
- Billy can't count yet.
- count (up) to something She can count up to 10 in Italian.
- count from something (to/up to something) to count from 1 to 10
📒 to calculate the total number of people, things, etc. in a particular group
- count something (up) They're still counting votes in Texas.
- I can't count the number of times I've eaten there (= I've eaten there very many times).
- The diet is based on counting calories.
📒 to include somebody/something when you calculate a total
- We have invited 50 people, not counting the children.
- The tour guide was sure one person was missing from the group until she realized she had forgotten to count herself.
📒 to be important
- It is going to be a close election, so every vote counts.
- Every point in this game counts.
- With our busy lives today we have less and less time for what really counts.
📒 to be officially accepted; to accept something officially
- Don't go over that line or your throw won't count.
- The goal wouldn't have counted anyway, because the linesman's flag was up for offside.
- The home team's manager protested that the run should count.
📒 to consider somebody/something in a particular way; to be considered in a particular way
- count (somebody/something) as somebody/something For tax purposes that money counts/is counted as income.
- count somebody/something/yourself among somebody/something I count him among my closest friends.
- count somebody/something/yourself + adj. I count myself lucky to have known him.
📒 used to say that a total is continuing to increase
- The movie's ticket sales add up to $39 million, and counting.
📒 used to say that the total number of somebody/something is very small
- She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed being with.
- Although she knew lots of people, she could count her friends on the fingers of one hand.
📒 to be grateful for the good things in your life
📒 to feel the bad effects of a mistake, an accident, etc.
- The town is now counting the cost of its failure to provide adequate flood protection.
📒 to imagine that sheep are jumping over a fence and to count them, as a way of getting to sleep
📒 you should not be too confident that something will be successful, because something may still go wrong
📒 to say publicly that you support somebody or you agree with something
- Everyone needs to stand up and be counted in order to make them see the strength of our conviction.
📒 used to say that you do not care how many times something happens
- I've seen the film five times, but who's counting?