(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.
Turnstile
Definition:
(n.) A revolving frame in a footpath, preventing the passage of horses or cattle, but admitting that of persons; a turnpike. See Turnpike, n., 1.
(n.) A similar arrangement for registering the number of persons passing through a gateway, doorway, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) The turnstiles had been abandoned and you didn't even need a ticket, and there was rubble lying around everywhere.
(2) Inside there's a chatty column about a dilemma that irritates all New Yorkers – how to swipe your Metro card at the turnstiles of the subway.
(3) The company behind Alton Towers theme park, where 16 people were injured in a rollercoaster crash last month , has warned its annual profits are expected to be £26m lower than anticipated because fewer families have been arriving at turnstiles since the start of the peak summer holiday period.
(4) I’d been to Charlton once when I was little and I had to crawl under the turnstiles.
(5) For the $500,000 would not exist were it not for the pandas, consummate fundraisers capable of turning turnstiles at a terrific rate, shifting vast quantities of merchandise and attracting new money for conservation from sponsors keen to be seen in a benevolent light.
(6) Suddenly, the turnstiles opened, the pre-match music began and players were finally allowed on to the pitch to warm up ahead of a 4pm kick-off necessitated by the 45 minutes needed to filter spectators into their seats to watch Newcastle’s first win of the season as Leicester were beaten 1-0.
(7) Since its central station was designated a so-called refugee “turnstile” last September, more than 80,000 refugees have arrived in around 150 special trains via the Balkan route .
(8) At the station I went through the turnstile and stood on the platform until a train arrived.
(9) It’s all about him, this turnstile of people and cargo.
(10) The club argued that, like most professional teams, their count is different because it includes other entrances than the main turnstiles, as those entering via the official Fan Zone and those with premium tickets have a separate entryway.
(11) A statement issued inside the prison said: “Corridors and doorways leading from our landings into areas such as the canteen and yard have been replaced with obstacle courses of multiple turnstiles and steel doors.
(12) Going through the new turnstiles and emerging on to the track still cannot help but set off an internal soundtrack of Caliban’s Dream (the Underworld song that accompanied the lighting of the cauldron) and memories of Super Saturday and Usain Bolt .
(13) Shortly before the turnstiles were due to open for the planned 3pm kick-off against Leicester City it was noticed that the screen, pinned to a rather exposed glass and metal structure high in the north-east corner of the Leazes End, was flapping ominously in the gentle October breeze.
(14) His initiation to the old Victoria Ground was a working-class boy's classic epiphany, as JB Priestley famously described, of the turnstiles transporting him to "an altogether more splendid world".
(15) There was a near-crush in the ticket hall, only three turnstiles were working and the trains were sporadic.
(16) When Brazil's president, Dilma Rousseff, attended the first test event earlier this month, the domestic media focused on the uneven flooring, a broken lift, turnstiles that failed to work and walls still under construction.
(17) Turnstiles, for example, were originally used in agriculture as a form of stile, allowing ramblers and farmers to access fields while keeping the sheep and cows in.
(18) The decision had been taken to open the turnstiles later than usual before the kick-off and, with many more people than normal turning up to be a part of a historic occasion, there were worrying levels of congestion outside the stadium.
(19) In light of Bolton's free buses the away support was flimsy but Megson last week praised price reductions at the Reebok "to help get people through the turnstiles".
(20) West Ham say there were technical issues with a number of turnstiles which led them to fail to open at the designated time of 6.15pm, specifically those adjacent to the media entrance just behind Green Street, but that virtually all of the gates did open at 6.15pm.