Count vs Num - What's the difference?
count | num |
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
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, title= To consider something an example of something.
(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.
As nouns the difference between count and num
is that count is the act of counting or tallying a quantity while num is abbreviation of lang=en.As a verb count
is to recite numbers in sequence.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