Counted vs Credited - What's the difference?
counted | credited |
(count)
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)
, 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 verbs the difference between counted and credited
is that counted is (count) while credited is .As an adjective credited is
something to.counted
English
Verb
(head)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