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Counter   /kˈaʊntər/   Listen
Counter

noun
1.
Table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted.
2.
Game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games.
3.
A calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens.  Synonym: tabulator.
4.
A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers.  Synonyms: buffet, sideboard.
5.
A person who counts things.
6.
A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one).  Synonyms: comeback, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte.
7.
(computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers).
8.
A piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot.  Synonym: heel counter.
9.
A return punch (especially by a boxer).  Synonyms: counterpunch, parry.
verb
1.
Speak in response.
2.
Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time.  Synonyms: anticipate, foresee, forestall.
adjective
1.
Indicating opposition or resistance.  Synonym: antagonistic.
adverb
1.
In the opposite direction.



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"Counter" Quotes from Famous Books



... half-scientific, half-religious book in her hand, from which she was storing her mind with arguments against what she supposed the opinions of Andrew. She had, however, little hope of his condescending to front them with counter-argument. His voice returned ever to the ear of her mind in words like these: "If you are content to think so, you are in no condition to receive what I have to communicate. Why should I press water on a soul that is not thirsty? ...
— The Elect Lady • George MacDonald
... are valuable statistics in the chapters presenting the progress in education, advancement in wealth, achievement in social uplift, attainments in literature and art, and the record of the Negroes in the World War. The last part of the book concerned with the currents and counter-currents, the grinding of the mills of the gods and a possible modus vivendi will decidedly interest the social worker but will not concern very much the student of history. On the whole, however, this volume is a valuable historical document which the student of Negro life ...
— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922 • Various
... this—the complete dependence for the formation of the character of individuals on the art of grouping and regimenting them. Christianity has supported for ages monastic institutions, institutions the most counter to the passions of men, solely by its strong appeal to the individual conscience. St Simonian institutions, or delightful phalansteres, will in vain flatter every passion and indulge every sense; if they leave the conscience inert, if nothing is built on the sense of duty, they will ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various
... invigorate and reinvigorate education. We want to create a sustained counter effort to the perpetual tendency of all educational organisations towards classicalism, secondary issues, and the evasion ...
— The New Machiavelli • Herbert George Wells
... direction in the different parts of the extensive mass of incandescent vapours falling within a single field of view. Very commonly they are of a cyclonic character. The opposite distortions of the same coloured rays betray the fury of "counter-gales" rushing along at the rate of 120 miles a second; while their undisturbed sections prove the persistence of a "heart of peace" in the midst of that unimaginable fiery whirlwind. Velocities up to 250 miles a second, or 15,000 times that of an express train at the top of its speed, ...
— A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century - Fourth Edition • Agnes M. (Agnes Mary) Clerke


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