{
    "term": "count",
    "partOfSpeech": "verb",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a2",
    "verbForms": {
        "presentSimple": {
            "iYouWeThey": "count",
            "heSheIt": "counts"
        },
        "pastSimple": "counted",
        "pastParticiple": "counted",
        "ingForm": "counting"
    },
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "to say numbers in the correct order",
            "sensetop": "count (up) to somethingcount from something (to/up to something)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Billy can't count yet."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She can count up to 10 in Italian.",
                    "contextForm": "count (up) to something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "to count from 1 to 10",
                    "contextForm": "count from something (to/up to something)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "He can now count from one to twenty."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We counted up to fifty, then set off to look for our friends."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "to calculate the total number of people, things, etc. in a particular group",
            "sensetop": "count something (up)count (up) how many…count from…",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "They're still **counting votes** in Texas.",
                    "contextForm": "count something (up)"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I can't **count the number** of times I've eaten there *(= I've eaten there very many times)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The diet is based on counting calories."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She began to count up how many guests they had to invite.",
                    "contextForm": "count (up) how many…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are twelve weeks to go, counting from today.",
                    "contextForm": "count from…"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She carefully counted the remaining coins and put them to one side."
                },
                {
                    "text": "We counted up our money."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Maths and measurement"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "to include somebody/something when you calculate a total",
            "sensetop": "count somebody/something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "We have invited 50 people, **not counting** the children."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The tour guide was sure one person was missing from the group until she realized she had forgotten to count herself."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "to be important",
            "sensetop": "count for something",
            "cefr": "b1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "It is going to be a close election, so every **vote counts**."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Every point in this game counts."
                },
                {
                    "text": "With our busy lives today we have less and less time for what **really counts.**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**It's the thought that counts** *(= used about a small but kind action or gift)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The fact that she had apologized counted for nothing with him.",
                    "contextForm": "count for something"
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "matter"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "to be officially accepted; to accept something officially",
            "sensetop": "count something",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Don't go over that line or your throw won't count."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The goal wouldn't have counted anyway, because the linesman's flag was up for offside."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The home team's manager protested that the run should count."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Applications received after 1 July will not be counted.",
                    "contextForm": "count something"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "to consider somebody/something in a particular way; to be considered in a particular way",
            "sensetop": "count (somebody/something) as somebody/somethingcount somebody/something/yourself among somebody/somethingcount somebody/something/yourself + adj.count somebody/something/yourself + noun",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "For tax purposes that money counts/is counted as income.",
                    "contextForm": "count (somebody/something) as somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I count him among my closest friends.",
                    "contextForm": "count somebody/something/yourself among somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I count myself lucky to have known him.",
                    "contextForm": "count somebody/something/yourself + adj."
                },
                {
                    "text": "She counts herself one of the lucky ones.",
                    "contextForm": "count somebody/something/yourself + noun"
                },
                {
                    "text": "I count it a privilege to have served alongside her."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that a total is continuing to increase",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The movie's ticket sales add up to $39 million, and counting."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that the total number of somebody/something is very small",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She could count on the fingers of one hand the people she actually enjoyed being with."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Although she knew lots of people, she could count her friends on the fingers of one hand."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to be grateful for the good things in your life",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to feel the bad effects of a mistake, an accident, etc.",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "The town is now counting the cost of its failure to provide adequate flood protection."
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to imagine that sheep are jumping over a fence and to count them, as a way of getting to sleep",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "you should not be too confident that something will be successful, because something may still go wrong",
            "labels": "(saying)",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Success"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "to say publicly that you support somebody or you agree with something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Everyone needs to stand up and be counted in order to make them see the strength of our conviction."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Opinion and argument"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "used to say that you do not care how many times something happens",
            "labels": "(informal)",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "I've seen the film five times, but who's counting?"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kaʊnt/",
                "audio": "co/count/count__gb_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kaʊnts/",
                "audio": "co/count/counts__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkaʊntɪd/",
                "audio": "co/count/counted__gb_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkaʊntɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/count/counting__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kaʊnt/",
                "audio": "co/count/count__us_2.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kaʊnts/",
                "audio": "co/count/counts__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkaʊntɪd/",
                "audio": "co/count/counted__us_1.mp3"
            },
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkaʊntɪŋ/",
                "audio": "co/count/counting__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "verb Middle English (as a noun): from Old French counte (noun), counter (verb), from the verb computare ‘calculate’, from com- ‘together’ + putare ‘to settle (an account)’."
}