What's the difference between count and recount?

Count


Definition:

  • (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.

Recount


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To count or reckon again.
  • (n.) A counting again, as of votes.
  • (v.) To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The art Kennard produced formed the basis of his career, as he recounted later: “I studied as a painter, but after the events of 1968 I began to look for a form of expression that could bring art and politics together to a wider audience … I found that photography wasn’t as burdened with similar art historical associations.” The result was his STOP montage series.
  • (2) As the party's internal electoral commission counted and recounted the votes during the day, appeals for calm were drowned out by waves of accusation and counter-accusation.
  • (3) Donald Trump has continued his criticism of Hillary Clinton’s support for election recounts in three states, claiming he won the popular vote “if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”.
  • (4) Some problems of document delivery (and their solution) are recounted.
  • (5) They did a recount,” she said, alluding to a campaign funded by the Green party .
  • (6) The cameramen did not follow the couple into the house, but in the episode featuring the evening, the Salahis recount the dinner and meeting Obama.
  • (7) Describing her as a cheerleader who excelled in her schoolwork, the man recounted how her life was derailed by substance abuse.
  • (8) Racism has been normalised in Sweden, it’s become okay to say the N-word,” she says, recounting how a man on the subway used the racial slur while shouting and telling her to hurry up.
  • (9) The history of smallpox is recounted through the eyes of those who bore witness to its terrors.
  • (10) 1.18pm BST Pistorius also recounts having a gun fired at his car as he drove, and on another occasion being followed by a car as he headed home.
  • (11) Even Eltham-born Bob Hope, the quintessential wise-cracking American star , used to recount that he had made his way over to the US by boat at five years of age because, “I felt I wasn’t getting anywhere in England.” • This article was amended on 7 July 2015 to update the headline.
  • (12) I can’t use the gyro at night so we’ll probably resort to using these drones.” Later, Cottar sits at a wooden table where a member of the Kenya Wildlife Service recounts the previous evening’s close call.
  • (13) She recounts her prolonged campaign to get respite care (which no one had told her she was entitled to), and later to get funding to send her son to a residential school.
  • (14) Styles of reminiscence used in life stories, rather than being outcomes of life review undertaken in old age, may be the characteristic ways in which individuals at particular levels of ego development, think about, relate to, and recount the stories of their lives.
  • (15) Nomberg-Przytyk also recounts the death of Avram Ovitz, the leader of the group: "The old midget wanted his wife" and tried to slip through the barbed wire; a guard spotted him and, when Avram got close enough, shot him.
  • (16) Cleary recounted last week how he and his colleagues instead held their discussions amid the Rodins and Moores in the National Gallery of Australia’s sculpture garden and how he had taken all of the mobile phones from the group and placed them in a bag well away from the discussions.
  • (17) Slipstream recounts how, on one writing holiday, they swapped typewriters and wrote a few pages of each other's novels.
  • (18) The paper concludes by examining the project against some success criteria and recounting some of the practical difficulties of data collection encountered so far.
  • (19) This paper recounts our experience on the use of a modified Lytic-cocktail regime in the management of eclampsia at the University Obstetric Unit, General Hospital, Kandy, Sri Lanka.
  • (20) Recounting how the rebels, known formally as the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, (LTTE) once controlled a wide swathe of the north and much of the east, Rajapaksa said that for the first time in 30 years, the country was unified under its elected government.