(v. t.) To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
(v. t.) To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
(v. t.) To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
(v. i.) To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
(v. i.) To reckon; to rely; to depend; -- with on or upon.
(v. i.) To take account or note; -- with
(v. i.) To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.
(v. t.) The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.
(v. t.) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
(v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.
(n.) A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore, all of the sera from seven other patients with shock reactions following the topical application of chlorhexidine preparation also showed high RAST counts.
(2) The concentrations of the drugs used in in vivo experiments did not affect the WBC counts in the peripheral blood of healthy mice.
(3) These data indicate that CSF levels are not inversely related to the blood neutrophil count in chronic idiopathic neutropenia and suggest that CSF is not a hormone regulating the blood neutrophil count in a manner analogous to the erythropoietin regulation of circulating erythrocyte levels.
(4) The reproducibility of the killing-curve method suggests that at least two different concentrations should be used and that a decrease in viable counts below 2 log10 after 24 hours does not exclude a synergistic action.
(5) Mean AgNOR counts were 5.83 (Group I), 7.68 (Group II), and 15.42 (Group III).
(6) Females were killed at various times after the onset of mating or artificial insemination, oviducts were fixed and sectioned serially, and spermatozoa were counted individually as to their location in the oviduct.
(7) The mean acne scores, derived from grading and counting lesions and comedones, fell from 63.3 to 6 in the Diane 50 and from 64.2 to 4.5 in the Triphasil group.
(8) Radioactivity attained in different tissues at different times after a single intraperitoneal injection of 3H-gentamicin into male rats was determined using scintillation counting.
(9) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(10) A relationship has been obtained experimentally to permit conversion of the counts to respirable mass concentrations.
(11) Cell recovery data for the hamster, rat, guinea pig, and rabbit were related to body size with the hamster having the lowest count and the rabbit the highest count.
(12) Males were then sacrificed and organ weights, testicular spermatid counts, and cauda epididymal sperm count and sperm morphology were obtained.
(13) Radiation exposure resulted in further significant decrease of T-cell count (but not B cells) in the elderly.
(14) These agents have been well-tolerated and generally produce a high incidence of sustained improvements in neutrophil counts and marrow morphology, although hemoglobin and platelet counts have generally not been altered.
(15) The effect of oral clonidine on prothrombin time, partial thromboplastin time, blood fibrinogen, fibrinolytic activity and platelet count was investigated in 25 hypertensive and 7 normal subjects.
(16) Our findings suggest that many traditional biological features used to estimate prognosis in ALL can be discarded in favor of clinical features (leukocyte count, age, and race) and cytogenetics (ploidy) for planning of future clinical trials.
(17) After approximately 20 in vitro passages, Chinese hamster kidney (CHK) cell cultures transformed upon exposure to different strains of SV 40 can show a diploid modal chromosome number of 22 with chromosome counts exclusively or essentially in the diploid range (20-25).
(18) Another, discussing public attitudes towards the police, said: "I've lost count of [the number of] people who said: 'It's only cos you've got a uniform … if you didn't have the uniform on, I'd come and fuck you and this, that and the other … I hope your wife dies of cancer and your kids die of cancer.'"
(19) The counts of EAC-receptor carrying neutrophils were two times lower in the patients with erosive ulcerative lichen planus as against those with the typical form of the disease.
(20) This, Brown jokes, counts as good weather for Scotland.
Countess
Definition:
(n.) The wife of an earl in the British peerage, or of a count in the Continental nobility; also, a lady possessed of the same dignity in her own right. See the Note under Count.
Example Sentences:
(1) Titanic's trailer is two minutes 37 seconds of lifeboat-related stampeding intercut with women swishing about in big hats doing seasick Dowager Countess expressions.
(2) Rivett was found bludgeoned to death with a lead pipe at the countess’s home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street on the evening of 7 November 1974.
(3) The guests included the Duke of Gloucester; Sophie, countess of Wessex; and the Duke of Norfolk, whose responsibilities include royal funerals.
(4) The Queen arrived at the chapel with the Duke of Edinburgh, and Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, Prince Edward , the Countess of Wessex and their children also attended the service.
(5) As we speak the final 10 days of production are under way, meaning farewell to the show’s trump card, Highclere Castle, home of real-life aristocrats, the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon.
(6) One of the blaggers who regularly worked for him, John Gunning, was responsible for obtaining details of bank accounts belonging to Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, which were then sold to the Sunday Mirror.
(7) She had nothing like the public profile of previous victims such as the Duchess of York, the Countess of Wessex or the former England manager Sven-Göran Eriksson.
(8) According to close associates of Rees, he also targeted: • Jack Straw when he was home secretary, Peter Mandelson when he was trade secretary and Blair's media adviser Alastair Campbell; • Prince Edward and the Countess of Wessex, and the Duke and Duchess of Kent, all of whom are said to have had their bank accounts penetrated, and Kate Middleton when she was Prince William's girlfriend; • The former commissioner of the Metropolitan police, Sir John Stevens, and the current assistant commissioner, John Yates , who later supervised the failed phone-hacking inquiry for 19 months; • The governor and deputy governor of the Bank of England, whose mortgage account details were obtained and sold.
(9) Thank you,” replied Dame Disaster, looking only moderately surprised not to have been made a countess for her contribution to public life.
(10) 2001: new plans are made for a £65m Australian-designed Denton Corker Marshall visitor centre, east of the stones at Countess roundabout.
(11) But Lord Byron was, perhaps, the most direct of them all: “We of the craft are all crazy,” he told the Countess of Blessington, casting a wary eye over his fellow poets.
(12) The story of the Grantham family has reached 1924, and, according to Mrs Hughes, “Downton is catching up with the times we live in.” “That is exactly what I’m afraid of,” replies Carson, suggesting yet more resistance to impending modernity – which, of course, means plenty of opportunity for baffled zingers from the Dowager Countess.
(13) He blamed the errors on his busy schedule: when he finished his thesis in 2006, he was juggling his duties as an MP and raising two daughters with his TV presenter wife, the equally blue-blooded Countess Stephanie von Bismarck.
(14) The playwright Gregory Murphy wrote The Countess, which dealt with the same affair and appeared successfully on Broadway in 1999 and subsequently in the West End in London.
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The Queen with her five great-grandchildren and two youngest grandchildren: James, Viscount Severn (L), eight, and Lady Louise (2nd L), 12, the children of the Earl and Countess of Wessex; Mia Tindall (holding the Queen’s handbag), two, daughter of Zara and Mike Tindall; Savannah (3rd R), five, and Isla Phillips (R), three, daughters of Peter and Autumn Phillips; Prince George (2nd R), two, and, in the Queen’s arms, Princess Charlotte (11 months), children of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge.
(16) The countess was set up by the News of the World at the Dorchester hotel, where she had gone to secure a PR contract with a Saudi prince.
(17) The palace also provided details of an eclectic music programme, courtesy of the Countess of Wessex’s String Orchestra, which ranged from Robert Farnon’s The Westminster Waltz, through to Irish and Chinese folk songs and the Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby.
(18) Its isolation no doubt attracted the Roman countess and her lewd husband who held lavish sex parties on the island 40 years ago.
(19) Perhaps Amanda Feilding , Countess of Wemyss and March, can explain it to me.
(20) I am sure the countess is right that the move would bring in revenue.