Count

Can you count to a hundred?

The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.

Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.

The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted; The person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President,[…]

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

They counted thirty, crowded in a space Which left scarce room for motion or exertion; […]

Your views don’t count here.

It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.

Apples count as a type of fruit.

This excellent man […] counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.

Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.[…]But as a foundation for analysis it is highly subjective: it rests on difficult decisions about what counts as a territory, what counts as output and how to value it. Indeed, economists are still tweaking it.

“Do you know how many transgender Americans have been mass shooters over the last 10 years?” he asked.¶“Too many,” Kirk quipped. The crowd clapped and cheered.¶Five, the audience member claimed. “Do you know how many mass shooters there have been in America over the last 10 years?” the man continued. Kirk leaned forward and picked up his mic before setting back into an upright position. “Counting or not counting gang violence?” he said.¶A loud “pop” suddenly rang out.¶Kirk lurched back and to the left. Blood splashed from his neck onto his white shirt.

He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.

I count you as more than a friend.

The entertainment we haue had of him, Is far from villanie or ſeruitude, And might in noble mindes be counted princely.

They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.

[…]to make her faire, that no man counts of her beauty.

Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.

Breathe out slowly through your mouth for a count of five.

By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.

Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of possession of a controlled drug with intent to commit a sexual offence.

Anthony Williams (32), of Langford Road, Peterborough, was arrested and charged with ten counts of attempted murder, one count of ABH (Actual Bodily Harm), and one count of possession of a bladed article.

He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.

When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.

That count deserves a punishment.

For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.