<p><strong>Verb (used with object)</strong></p><ul><li>To check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten.</li><li>To reckon up; calculate; compute.</li><li>To list or name the numerals up to: Close your eyes and count ten.</li><li>To include in a reckoning; take into account: There are five of us here, counting me.</li><li>To consider or regard: He counted himself lucky to have survived the crash.</li><li>Archaic: To reckon to the credit of another; ascribe; impute.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>To count the items of a collection one by one in order to determine the total: She counted three times before she was satisfied that none was missing.</li><li>To list or name numerals in order: To count to 100 by fives.</li><li>To reckon numerically.</li><li>To have a specified numerical value.</li><li>To be accounted or worth something: That first try didn't count—I was just practicing.</li><li>To have merit, importance, value, etc.; deserve consideration: Every bit of help counts.</li><li>To have worth; amount (usually followed by for): Intelligence counts for something.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The act of counting; enumeration; reckoning; calculation: A count of hands showed 23 in favor and 16 opposed.</li><li>The number representing the result of a process of counting; the total number.</li><li>An accounting.</li><li>Baseball: The number of balls and strikes, usually designated in that order, that have been called on a batter during a turn at bat: a count of two balls and one strike.</li><li>Law: A distinct charge or theory of action in a declaration or indictment: He was found guilty on two counts of theft.</li><li>Textiles: A number representing the size or quality of yarn, especially the number based on the relation of weight to length of the yarn and indicating its degree of coarseness.</li><li>Bowling: The number of pins struck down by the first ball rolled by a bowler in the frame following a spare and included in the score for the frame in which the spare was made.</li><li>Physics: A single ionizing reaction registered by an ionization chamber, as in a Geiger counter.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Noting a number of items determined by an actual count: The box is labeled 50 count.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb Phrase</strong></p><ul><li>(Often used imperatively, as in the army) To count aloud by turns, as to arrange positions within a group of persons; divide or become divided into groups: Close up ranks and count off from the left by threes.</li><li>To include: If you're going to the beach, count me in.</li><li>Boxing: To declare (a boxer) a loser because of inability to stand up before the referee has counted 10 seconds.</li><li>To exclude: When it comes to mountain climbing, count me out.</li><li>To count and apportion or give out: She counted out four cookies to each child.</li><li>To disqualify (ballots) illegally in counting, in order to control the election.</li><li>To count backward, usually by ones, from a given integer to zero.</li><li>To depend or rely on: You can always count on him to lend you money.</li></ul>