Count vs Size - What's the difference?
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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.
(obsolete, outside, dialects) An assize.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, page 560:
(obsolete) A regulation determining the amount of money paid in fees, taxes etc.
(obsolete) A fixed standard for the magnitude, quality, quantity etc. of goods, especially food and drink.
* Shakespeare
The dimensions or magnitude of a thing; how big something is.
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, title= (obsolete) A regulation, piece of ordinance.
A specific set of dimensions for a manufactured article, especially clothing.
(graph theory) A number of edges in a graph.
(figurative, dated) Degree of rank, ability, character, etc.
* L'Estrange
* Jonathan Swift
An instrument consisting of a number of perforated gauges fastened together at one end by a rivet, used for measuring the size of pearls.
To adjust the size of; to make a certain size.
* Francis Bacon
To classify or arrange by size.
# (military) To take the height of men, in order to place them in the ranks according to their stature.
# (mining) To sift (pieces of ore or metal) in order to separate the finer from the coarser parts.
(colloquial) To approximate the dimensions, estimate the size of.
To take a greater size; to increase in size.
* John Donne
(UK, Cambridge University, obsolete) To order food or drink from the buttery; hence, to enter a score, as upon the buttery book.
(obsolete) To swell; to increase the bulk of.
A thin, weak glue used as primer for paper or canvas intended to be painted upon.
Wallpaper paste.
The thickened crust on coagulated blood.
Any viscous substance, such as gilder's varnish.
To apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.
In intransitive terms the difference between count and size
is that count is to be an example of something while size is to take a greater size; to increase in size.In transitive terms the difference between count and size
is that count is to consider something an example of something while size is to apply glue or other primer to a surface which is to be painted.In obsolete terms the difference between count and size
is that count is an object of interest or account; value; estimation while size is a regulation, piece of ordinance.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
Derived terms
* countless * down for the count * sperm countEtymology 2
(wikipedia count) From (etyl) comte and in the sense of "noble fighting alongside the king".Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (English counts) earl * (French counts) comte * (Italian counts) conte * (German counts) grafDerived terms
* viscount * count palatine, count palatinatesize
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) ).Noun
(en noun)- I know you would have women above the law, but it is all a lye; I heard his lordship say at size , that no one is above the law.
- to scant my sizes
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- men of a less size and quality
- the middling or lower size of people
- (Knight)
Synonyms
* See alsoVerb
(siz)- a statute to size weights, and measures
- Our desires give them fashion, and so, / As they wax lesser, fall, as they size , grow.
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
