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Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman countour, from Old French conteor (French comptoir), from Medieval Latin comput?t?rium, from Latin comput?.

Noun

counter (plural counters)

1. An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
2. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
3. A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
4. One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
5. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
6. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
7. (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
8. In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations take place.
9. In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
10. (wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
11. (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
12. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
13. (Internet) A hit counter.

Etymology 2

From Old French contre, Anglo-Norman cuntre, both from Latin contra.

Adverb

counter (not comparable)

1. Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

Noun

counter (plural counters)

1. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
2. The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).

Etymology 3

From counter-.

Verb

counter (third-person singular simple present counters, present participle countering, simple past and past participle countered)

1. To contradict, oppose.
2. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
3. To take action in response to; to respond.
4. (transitive, obsolete) To encounter.

Adjective

counter (not comparable)

1. Contrary or opposing

Adverb

counter (not comparable)

1. In opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise.
2. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
3. At or against the front or face.

Noun

counter (plural counters)

1. (obsolete) An encounter.
2. (nautical) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
3. (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.
4. The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
5. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
6. (typography) The area of a letter that is entirely or partially enclosed by a letter form or a symbol.

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