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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
counter
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a ticket office/booth/counter (=a place where you can buy tickets)
▪ There was a long queue at the ticket office.
bean counter
▪ Since the bean counters took over the radio station, it’s become a boring place to work.
counter/combat a threat
▪ We must work together to counter the threat of state terrorism.
Geiger counter
lunch counter
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
available
▪ Copies of the leaflet are being distributed to members today and will be available at public counters at Headquarters and Chesser House.
▪ Melatonin, available over the counter, is a hormone produced inside the brain by the pineal gland.
▪ The remedies in the 200M and 10M potencies will not be available over the counter except in specialist pharmacies.
▪ Yeast remedies are available over the counter, and a physician can prescribe antibiotics for chlamydia, gonorrhea, and others.
▪ The completeness of the 1989-90 material is more difficult to evaluate because the drugs in this period were available over the counter.
bargaining
▪ Would keep it as her final bargaining counter.
▪ On this basis Polaris, and even Trident, could be retained as at least a bargaining counter.
▪ Votes can be used as bargaining counters for future needs.
▪ Even the demand for independence might be advanced as primarily a bargaining counter.
checkout
▪ While I do the shopping, Miles sits near the checkout counter reading.
▪ Through the windows, all of the checkout counters appeared to be 10 people deep.
▪ All nine checkout counters are backed up with huge lines of people pushing loaded carts.
▪ Anyway, I finally found the right stockings and took them to the checkout counter.
▪ But Giant shoppers are using an increasing number of coupons generated by scanners at the checkout counter, Scher says.
■ NOUN
bar
▪ They are often sold in the winter months from small casks kept on bar counters.
▪ See that fire over there, by the bar counter?
▪ Pooley was nearing the end of the bar counter by now and the Swan's doorway was perilously close.
▪ In front the enemy, to their right the crowds at the bar counter, to their left tables and the wall.
bean
▪ You have to have the bean counters go through all this.
kitchen
▪ She leaned against the kitchen counter.
▪ Ellie moved gingerly between the table and the kitchen counter, buttering toast and pouring cups of tea.
▪ In London, my kitchen counter is as cluttered as anybody's.
▪ Wipe kitchen counters after each meal.
▪ She leaves like four bucks on the kitchen counter - though it's since gone down to three-fifty.
▪ He had his guest sit at the kitchen counter.
▪ A second, designed to be installed above a kitchen counter, would be a television and electronic recipe holder.
▪ Before opening it, he grudgingly used the microwave to heat a cup of cocoa, then sat at the kitchen counter.
lunch
▪ When we got off to eat I had to lead her by the hand to the lunch counter.
▪ Perhaps not incidentally, a white demonstrator in 1964 joined black people in a Mississippi lunch counter sit-in.
▪ I wanted to integrate schools and lunch counters.
▪ Nothing can compare to the sense of well-being that washed through me at that filthy lunch counter.
program
▪ Thus we may be able to initiate an instruction fetch from store and increment the program counter in one micro-instruction.
▪ In order to transfer control to a new sequence of instructions, a new value must be deposited in the program counter.
scintillation
▪ Free carnitine was converted to C acetyl carnitine and measured in a scintillation counter.
▪ Beta and gamma emissions can be detected by scintillation counters.
▪ After vigorous shaking, these were then counted in a Beckman scintillation counter.
▪ The sensing element of a scintillation counter is a fluor, a substance capable of converting radiation energy to light energy.
ticket
▪ A descriptive list of the works of art is available at the ticket counters.
▪ The ticket counter folks refused to assign us a seat, sending us to the gate.
▪ She got to the bus station, stood up straight and went out to the ticket counter.
▪ The airline tickets can be delivered by mail, picked up through a travel agent or at airline ticket counter.
▪ Katherine queued at the ticket counter and proclaimed her destination in a clear voice.
▪ Delta, for instance, is providing refund forms at ticket counters and through travel agents.
▪ There were no details about any possible confrontation at the ticket counter.
top
▪ These objects add instant nostalgia when hung on your kitchen wall or placed in a basket on your counter top.
▪ There may not be an ideal counter top surface; every material has its benefits and disadvantages.
▪ He can see Katherine in the kitchen, with its smooth Formica counter tops and fine oak cabinets.
▪ Fitgerald said the process can also be used on counter tops and table top as well as in store display windows.
■ VERB
buy
▪ Something you could buy over the counter at a supermarket.
▪ A synthetic form of melatonin can be bought over-the-counter at health food stores and many pharmacies.
▪ Hon. Members can buy them over the counter in a chemist's shop.
▪ One of the simplest means is to buy a tally counter.
▪ Most of the illegal guns are not being bought over the counter, or stolen.
▪ I just bought it over the counter.
▪ Nicotine chewing gum can now be bought over the counter at the chemists.
▪ There are several effective preparations you can buy over the counter, in the form of pleasant-tasting drinks or tablets.
lean
▪ She was leaning on the counter with both hands.
leaned
▪ She leaned against the kitchen counter.
serve
▪ We kids either had to serve behind the ice-cream counter or wait on the tables.
▪ Nervously, they festooned the front serving counter with ribbons not believing, quite, that people would come.
▪ Mary served behind the counter at Bacon's for a few hours per week.
▪ The women who served behind the counter in their green overalls and caps were non-committal about the quality.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a counter-top appliance
▪ Careful, you're going to spill it all over the counter.
▪ the blue counter
▪ The cashier stood waiting behind the counter.
▪ The local supermarket has a good deli counter.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ After bids and counter bids the Secretary of State referred the Guinness proposal to the Commission for inquiry and report.
▪ I looked at her across the counter and tried to detect some glimmer of unexplained Highland intuition.
▪ She was sounding unexpectedly urgent as they approached the empty checkout counter.
▪ The girl had left the weighing counter.
▪ The proprietor, Mr John Allan, sat at a counter carefully turning the brittle pages of what seemed an ancient book.
▪ There's pots to wash and a broom under the counter.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
argument
▪ The Minister has failed to counter that argument.
▪ The Defendants counter argument that this infrastructure information did not constitute a record either was not allowed by the Court.
▪ The Vendor may then wish to counter this argument and limit the warranty by stating precisely what enquiries it has undertaken.
▪ There are two obvious moves which could be made to counter this argument.
▪ In this respect any shifting of corporation tax would counter this argument to tax corporations perse.
attack
▪ Arsenal have had also apart from the first game, where I doubt coventry went looking to attack, rather than counter attack.
▪ The teams of volunteers have been formed to counter gay-bashing attacks.
▪ The hand can be either a clenched fist or an open palm, depending upon how the defender wishes to counter attack.
▪ The one hand executes the two movements almost simultaneously, leaving the rearguard hand to counter any further direct attack.
charge
▪ Much of the work of the previous fortnight securing evidence to counter the original charge was suddenly irrelevant.
▪ Shannon tried to counter her charges.
criticism
▪ In general, ministers are willing to be flexible to ensure that they can counter criticism arising from immediate public anxieties.
problem
▪ Such advice did little to counter the practical problems of cost.
▪ Hard thinking and research may aid us individually, and eventually as a species, to counter some of these problems.
threat
▪ Both the level of available resources and their deployment are constantly adjusted as necessary to counter the foreseeable threat.
▪ They countered the threat by inviting only safe theologians - largely Rome-based - to sit on the preparatory commissions.
▪ Edward's first move was to counter any possible threat to Aquitaine from the south and from the sea.
■ VERB
need
▪ Obviously they need to be countered and an objective must be set.
▪ The implicit tax would thus rise and fall precisely as needed to counter speculative pressures.
▪ Something big and dramatic was needed to counter the lingering impact of the scandal.
▪ Even less money would be needed to counter river blindness, which is still the scourge of millions.
▪ What is needed to counter it is the simple reflection that there are some things that every rational person desires and values.
▪ The tendency of Down's children towards stubbornness and inflexibility needs to be countered from an early age.
try
▪ Shannon tried to counter her charges.
▪ This in turn had exerted the upward pressure on bank interest rates which the government was now trying to counter.
▪ Enemy artillery will probably be better than your own, so try to counter it early on.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Hospitals must offer better salaries to counter the shortage of nurses.
▪ Rodrigues countered the criticism by saying that the group does a lot of things for the area that go unnoticed.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But Dole countered with a heavily negative response.
▪ Edward's first move was to counter any possible threat to Aquitaine from the south and from the sea.
▪ Now, I countered with an offer of $ 850, 000.
▪ One measure designed to counter this is the introduction this year of just one school-leaving date - the end of June.
▪ This dual process of introduction is systematically countered by a dual process of elimination.
▪ Yet they did little to counter the challenge of socialism.
III.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
attack
▪ They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses, instead of forming themselves into a counter attack.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
counter

Speed counter \Speed counter\ (Mach.) A device for automatically counting the revolutions or pulsations of an engine or other machine; -- called also simply counter.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
counter

mid-14c., "table where a money lender does business," from Old French contouer, comptoir (14c.) "counting room, table of a bank," from Medieval Latin computatorium "place of accounts," from Latin computatus, past participle of computare (see compute). Generalized 19c. from banks to shops, then extended to display cases for goods. Phrase under the counter is from 1926.

counter

"go against," late 14c., from Old French countre "facing opposite" (see counter-). Related: Countered; countering. As an adverb, from mid-15c.; as an adjective, from 1590s.

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Wiktionary
counter

Etymology 1 n. 1 An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc. 2 (context curling English) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones. 3 A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured. 4 One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner. 5 A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations. 6 (context historical English) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter. 7 (context grammar English) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 '''head''' of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. 8 In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations take place. 9 In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin. 10 (context wrestling English) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent. 11 (context computing programming English) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count. 12 (context computing Internet English) A hit counter. Etymology 2

adv. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction. n. 1 (context nautical English) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline. 2 (by extension) The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (''above'' the heel of the shoe/boot). Etymology 3

  1. contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic. adv. 1 In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise. 2 In the wrong way; contrary to the right course. 3 At or against the front or face. n. 1 (context obsolete English) An encounter. 2 (context nautical English) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper. 3 (context music English) (alternative form of contra English) Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor. 4 The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck. 5 The back leather or heel part of a boot. v

  2. 1 To contradict, oppose. 2 (context boxing English) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. 3 To take action in response to; to respond.

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WordNet
counter

adj. indicating opposition or resistance [syn: antagonistic]

counter

  1. n. table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted

  2. game equipment used in various card or board games

  3. a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens [syn: tabulator]

  4. a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers [syn: buffet, sideboard]

  5. a person who counts things

  6. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one); "it brought a sharp rejoinder from the teacher" [syn: rejoinder, retort, return, riposte, replication, comeback]

  7. (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)

  8. the piece of leather that fits the heel [syn: heel]

  9. a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe

  10. a return punch (especially by a boxer) [syn: counterpunch, parry]

counter

adv. in the opposite direction; "run counter"

counter

  1. v. speak in response; "He countered with some very persuasive arguments"

  2. act in advance of; deal with ahead of time [syn: anticipate, foresee, forestall]

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Wikipedia
Counter

__NOTOC__ Counter may refer to:

  • Countertop, a flat surface or worktop, possibly in a kitchen, shop, or other service
  • Bar (counter), the countertop at which drinks are served in a bar
  • Compter, a small jail
  • Part of a ship's stern above the waterline that extends beyond the rudder stock (see nautical terms)
  • The Counter, a global hamburger restaurant chain
Counter (typography)

In typography, a counter is the area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol (the counter-space/the hole of). Letters containing closed counters include A, B, D, O, P, Q, R, a, b, d, e, g, o, p, and q. Letters containing open counters include c, f, h, i, s etc. The digits 0, 4, 6, 8, and 9 also possess a counter. An aperture is the opening between an open counter and the outside of the letter.

The lowercase 'g' has two typographic variants: the single-story '' has one closed counter and one open counter (and hence one aperture); the double-story '' has two closed counters.

Counter (digital)

In digital logic and computing, a counter is a device which stores (and sometimes displays) the number of times a particular event or process has occurred, often in relationship to a clock signal. The most common type is a sequential digital logic circuit with an input line called the "clock" and multiple output lines. The values on the output lines represent a number in the binary or BCD number system. Each pulse applied to the clock input increments or decrements the number in the counter.

A counter circuit is usually constructed of a number of flip-flops connected in cascade. Counters are a very widely-used component in digital circuits, and are manufactured as separate integrated circuits and also incorporated as parts of larger integrated circuits.

Counter (board wargames)

Boardgame counters are usually small cardboard squares moved around on the map of a wargame to represent armies, military units, or individual military personnel. The first wargame based on cardboard counters was War Tactics or Can Great Britain be Invaded? invented by Arthur Renals of Leicester in 1911. The first wargame bringing counters to a mass-market was Tactics, invented by Charles S. Roberts in 1952. Traditional wargames typically have hundreds of counters ( The Russian Campaign, 225;GI: Anvil of Victory, 856; Terrible Swift Sword, >2,000). Squad Leader had counters of different sizes: 520 ½-inch counters and 192 ⅝-inch, with the different sizes used for different purposes.

Boardgame counters are often closely related to military map marking symbols, such as those seen in the NATO standard APP-6a, and often include a simplified APP-6a representation as part of the counter.

Counter (collectible card games)

In collectible card games (CCG), particularly in the seminal CCG of Magic: The Gathering, a counter is, in game terms, a representation of an effect generated by a card that is in play or has already been played. In physical terms, it is an object that serves said purpose.

Effects that involve counters include:

  • In games where creatures are used, counters may be used to represent creatures generated by card effects, sometimes referred to as "token creatures".
  • Time counters may be placed on a card to act as a countdown timer. Such counters are removed at designated intervals, usually once per the controlling player's turn, and an effect takes place when the final time counter is removed.
  • Accumulation counters can build up, usually at a rate of one counter per the controlling player's turn, until enough counters exist to trigger a card effect. When the effect is triggered, the required number of counters is usually removed. Most cards that accumulate counters can continue to do so as long as the card is in play.

None of these uses should be confused with effects that negate (or counter, as in "counteract") cards.

Customarily, counters used in CCGs are small, easily carried objects, such as coins, tokens, Bingo chips, etc. Various game manufacturers sell tokens specifically intended for use in CCGs, from cheaply made cardboard tokens and glass beads to higher quality metallic tokens.

Counter (furniture)
  • Check-out counter is furniture for servicing customers, consisting of a table that divides the seller's and buyer's space. Goods are put onto this table for counting, accounting, and delivering goods.
  • Bar counter or bar is a counter for serving drinks. Its height depends on style.
  • Kitchen counter is in a home or restaurant used for preparing food and is very useful when it comes to putting things down. Often beneath the countertop are drawers and cabinets for storing cooking utensils.
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Usage examples of "counter".

I remember what the German absurdist poet Kurt Tucholsky said about his countrymen and counters: they all grovel in front of them, and aspire to sit behind them.

Finding a mostly empty box of sugar coated cereal, she sat down at the kitchen counter with it and ate it dry, wondering where Adonis had gone off to.

It had been the great star-faring guilds, the Leading Star, the Adventurine, and later the Cor Tauri and Num Sessa, who had developed the modern harmonia with their multiple, multi-throated pipes, and the flexible tuning systems that let a ship go directly from the lifting sequence, the harmony that countered the music of the planetary core, to the music that would take them to the edge of the systemic envelope and finally beyond the twelfth of heaven.

So Nancy Floyd approached a pair of agents in her own Foreign Counter Intelligence Division on the twenty-fifth floor at 26 Federal Plaza.

Salem would work as an asset of the Foreign Counter Intelligence Branch, with Nancy Floyd as his salary contact and Napoli and Anticev as the formal case agents who would process his intel.

The attacks and counters continued, but the allo was taking no significant injuries, and the longer the action proceeded, the more alert the reptile was becoming.

McDermott goes to the counter and comes back again with a white china cup that has a blue line and an airplane on it, and Alphonse takes a long drink of the hot brew and thinks that it is just about the best thing he has ever had to drink in his whole long life.

To counter this, the design team created an antinoise generator, a device that matched the frequency of the sound waves and produced waves of its own at the exact opposite amplitude.

But he also wrote a pamphlet, countering the claim of a Greek writer, Apion, that the Jews had no history to speak of, since they were hardly mentioned in the works of Greek historians.

In the kitchen, gray ceramic tiles covered the counter and backsplash, plain white cupboards filled two walls, and the stove looked like it had never been used.

Behind the counter, a man in a cheap bagwig looked up from a sheaf of papers.

And I was watching a travelogue about Baluchistan on the little portable TV I keep on the counter.

Kayla sat at the counter, her legs dangling over a barstool, phone extended toward him.

That Bedmate thing was ordinarily a side-counter itemmaybe you stock four on a side counter and they sell a few a month.

And to put his arm-chair back in its place he was darting away from the counter, when Binet asked him for half an ounce of sugar acid.