Straw vs Counter - What's the difference?

Straw is a related term of counter.

As a proper noun straw

is .

As a noun 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.

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.

straw

English

Noun

(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.

(countable) A drinking straw.

a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.

*XIX c. , recorded by Francis James Child,

*:‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw ,

*:Nor all thine arrows to boot;

*:If I get a knop upon thy bare scop,

*:Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’

*1857 , Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers :

*:He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.

*1881 , :

*:To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw .

Derived terms

* * strawberry

Adjective

(-)

Made of straw.

straw hat

Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

Derived terms

* cheese straw * drinking straw * draw the short straw * grasp at straws * jackstraw * the last straw * the final straw * make bricks without straw * man of straw * pine straw * silly straw * straw boss * straw buyer * straw hat * straw in the wind * straw man * straw mushroom * straw poll * the straw that broke the camel's back * straw that stirs the drink * straw vote * straw wine * strawboard * straw-coloured * strawflower * strawworm * windlestraw

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counter

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) (m) (French (m)), from .

Noun

(en noun)

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.

Derived terms

* bean counter * counter batten * countertop * hit counter * over the counter * program counter * rivet counter

Etymology 2

From (etyl) contre, (etyl) cuntre, both from (etyl) contra.

Adverb

(-)

Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

* Running counter to all the rules of virtue. -Locks .

Noun

(en noun)

(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 :

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)

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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Adjective

(-)

Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.

His carrying a knife was counter to my plan.

* I. Taylor

Innumerable facts attesting the counter principle.

Derived terms

* counter agent * counter fugue * counter current * counter revolution * counter poison : See also:

Adverb

(-)

In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.

* John Locke

running counter to all the rules of virtue

In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.

a hound that runs counter

* Shakespeare

This is counter , you false Danish dogs!

At or against the front or face.

* Sandys

which [darts] they never throw counter , but at the back of the flier

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) An encounter.

* Spenser

with kindly counter under mimic shade

(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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