Carry_weight vs Count - What's the difference?
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To be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs.
To have influence.
* 1948 Rollo H. Myers, Erik Satie, D. Dobson, p31
* 2002 Elizabeth Moynihan, Destiny's Whisper, Writers Club Press, p376
* 2010 Gordon Ryan, American Voices: State of Rebellion, p247
To recite numbers in sequence.
To determine the number (of objects in a group).
To be of significance; to matter.
To be an example of something.
* J. A. Symonds
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)
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(obsolete) To take account or note (of).
* Shakespeare
(UK, legal) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
The act of or tallying a quantity.
The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
A countdown.
(legal) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.
(baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
(obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
* Spenser
The male ruler of a county.
A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.
Carry_weight is a related term of count.
As verbs the difference between carry_weight and count
is that carry_weight is to be handicapped by an extra burden, as when one rides or runs while count is to recite numbers in sequence.As a noun count is
the act of or tallying a quantity or count can be the male ruler of a county.carry_weight
English
Verb
(head)- Your excuses don't carry weight with me.
- When M. Paladilhe was elected my friends said to me: 'Never mind; later on he'll vote for you, Maestro, and his support will carry a lot of weight' . I never had his vote, nor his support, nor his weight.
- Manning Senior carries a lot of weight around here, he has a lot of friends ; a lot of professional clout and can obviously get things done just barely within the lines of legality.
- A recommendation from him carries a lot of weight around here.
count
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) counten, from (etyl) conter, from (etyl) ).Verb
(en verb)- This excellent man counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.
Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
- No man counts of her beauty.
- (Burrill)
Derived terms
* count one's blessings * count outNoun
(en noun)- Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
- He has a 3-2 count with the bases loaded.
- all his care and count