Counter vs Do - What's the difference?
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An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
* He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.
(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
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.
* He put his money on the counter , and the shopkeeper put it in the till.
One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
* He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter - he can count to 100.
A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
(grammar) 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.
In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations take place.
(wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
* Always know a counter to any hold you try against your opponent.
(computing, programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
(computing, Internet) A hit counter.
Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
* Running counter to all the rules of virtue. -Locks .
(nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
(by extension) The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
* 1959 , , Seymour: An Introduction :
To contradict, oppose.
(boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
* His left hand countered provokingly. - C. Kingsley
To take action in response to; to respond.
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Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.
* I. Taylor
In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
* John Locke
In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
* Shakespeare
At or against the front or face.
* Sandys
(obsolete) An encounter.
* Spenser
(nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
(music) Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
The back leather or heel part of a boot.
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To perform; to execute.
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, title= (obsolete) To cause, make (someone) (do something).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), ''(The Faerie Queene), II.vi:
* W. Caxton
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* Bible, 2 Cor. viii. 1
(transitive) To suffice.
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* 1922 , (Margery Williams), (The Velveteen Rabbit)
To be reasonable or acceptable.
To have (as an effect).
To fare; to succeed or fail.
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To cook.
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* {{quote-news, 1944, , , News from the Suburbs, Punch
, passage=We went down below, and the galley-slave did some ham and eggs, and the first lieutenant, who was aged 19, told me about Sicily, and time went like a flash.}}
* {{quote-book, 2005, Alan Tansley, The Grease Monkey, page=99, pageurl=http://books.google.com/books?id=V63jCdQpv2kC&pg=PA99
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To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
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, passage=No tourist can get credit for seeing America first without doing New York, the Wonderful Town, the Baghdad-on-Hudson, the dream in the eye of the Kansas hooker
To treat in a certain way.
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* 1928 , , "The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers", in (Lord Peter Views the Body) ,
* {{quote-book, 1994, Jervey Tervalon, Understand This, page=50
, passage="Why you gonna do me like that?" I ask. "Do what?" "Dog me."}}
To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
* Bible, 2 Kings xvii. 34
To spend (time) in jail.
To impersonate or depict.
(slang) To kill.
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, passage=The order came and I did him right there. The bullet went right where it was supposed to go.}}
(slang) To have sex with. (See also do it )
* {{quote-book, c. 1590, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus, section=Act IV, scene II, pageurl=https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Tragedy_of_Titus_Andronicus
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''Aaron'': "That which thou canst not undo."
''Chiron'': "Thou hast undone our mother."
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* {{quote-book, 2008, On the Line, Donna Hill, page=84
, passage=The uninhibited woman within wanted to do him right there on the countertop, but I remained composed.}}
To cheat or swindle.
* De Quincey
To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
(intransitive) To finish.
(UK, dated, intransitive) To work as a domestic servant (with for ).
* 1915 , Frank Thomas Bullen, Recollections
(archaic, dialectal, transitive, auxiliary) Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
* 1844 , William Barnes, Evenén in the Village , Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect:
(stock exchange) To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
(informal) To make or provide.
(colloquial) A party, celebration, social function.
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(informal) A hairdo.
(colloquial, obsolete) A period of confusion or argument. (rfex)
Something that can or should be done (usually in the phrase dos and don'ts ).
(obsolete) A deed; an act.
(archaic) ado; bustle; stir; to-do
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(obsolete, UK, slang) A cheat; a swindler.
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As nouns the difference between counter and do
is that counter is an object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc or counter can be (nautical) the overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline or counter can be (obsolete) an encounter while do is the bright time of the day (chiefly in adverbial constructions).As an adverb counter
is contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction or counter can be in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.As a verb counter
is to contradict, oppose.As an adjective counter
is contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.counter
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (French (m)), from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* bean counter * counter batten * countertop * hit counter * over the counter * program counter * rivet counterEtymology 2
From (etyl) contre, (etyl) cuntre, both from (etyl) contra.Adverb
(-)Noun
(en noun)- Seymour, sitting in an old corduroy armchair across the room, a cigarette going, wearing a blue shirt, gray slacks, moccasins with the counters broken down, a shaving cut on the side of his face [...].
Etymology 3
From counter- .Verb
(en verb)citation, passage=David Cameron insists that his latest communications data bill is “vital to counter terrorism”. Yet terror is mayhem. It is no threat to freedom. That threat is from counter-terror, from ministers capitulating to securocrats.}}
Adjective
(-)- His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.
- Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle.
Derived terms
* counter agent * counter fugue * counter current * counter revolution * counter poison : See also:Adverb
(-)- running counter to all the rules of virtue
- a hound that runs counter
- This is counter , you false Danish dogs!
- which [darts] they never throw counter , but at the back of the flier
Noun
(en noun)- with kindly counter under mimic shade
Anagrams
* ----do
English
(wikipedia do)Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Verb
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=“I don't know how you and the ‘head,’ as you call him, will get on, but I do know that if you call my duds a ‘livery’ again there'll be trouble. It's bad enough to go around togged out like a life saver on a drill day, but I can stand that 'cause I'm paid for it. […]”}}
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you "stay up to date with what your friends are doing ",
- Sometimes to doe him laugh, she would assay / To laugh at shaking of the leaues light, / Or to behold the water worke
- My lord Abbot of Westminster did do shewe to me late certain evidences.
- a fatal plague which many did to die
- We do you to wit [i.e. we make you to know] of the grace of God bestowed on the churches of Macedonia.
- "Here," she said, "take your old Bunny! He'll do to sleep with you!" And she dragged the Rabbit out by one ear, and put him into the Boy's arms.
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
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- Upon my word, although he [my host] certainly did me uncommonly well, I began to feel I'd be more at ease among the bushmen.
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- They fear not the Lord, neither do they after the law and commandment.
''Aaron'': "That which thou canst not undo."
''Chiron'': "Thou hast undone our mother."
''Aaron : "Villain, I have done thy mother."}}
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- He was not to be done , at his time of life, by frivolous offers of a compromise that might have secured him seventy-five per cent.
- I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.
- ...An' the dogs do''' bark, an' the rooks be a-vled to the elems high and dark, an' the water '''do roar at mill.
- Do they do haircuts there?
- Could you do me a burger with mayonnaise instead of ketchup?
Usage notes
* In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use and verbs had a distinct second-person singular present-tense form, the verb .Antonyms
* don'tDerived terms
* can do with * do a… * doable * do by * do by halves * do down * doer * do for * do in * do it * do right by * done * do-over * do somebody wrong * do the trick * do time * do up * do well by doing good * do with mirrors * do without * fordo * misdo * redo * overdo * to do with * underdo * undoSee also
Noun
(en noun)- We’re having a bit of a do on Saturday to celebrate my birthday.
- After a load of photos and what-not, we descend the world's longest escalator, which are called that even as they de-escalate, and in we go to the main forum, a high ceilinged hall, full of circular cloth-draped, numbered tables, a stage at the front, the letters GQ, 12-foot high in neon at the back; this aside, though, neon forever the moniker of trash, this is a posh do , in an opera house full of folk in tuxes.
- Nice do !
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- A great deal of do , and a great deal of trouble.