counter
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Is counter a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of counter?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.Examples: "With a foreach block, you don't need to create an explicit counter variable."
2. (Internet) A hit counter.Internet
3. (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
4. (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.Examples: "He remaynes prisonner in the Counter in Woodstrete in the hole, by the contagiousing wherof he is lyke to perishe"historical
5. (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.
noun (English)
1. (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.Examples: "Always know a counter to any hold you try against your opponent."
2. (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, 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.alt-ofalternative
4. (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
5. (obsolete) An encounter.Examples: "with kindly counter under mimic shade"obsolete
verb (English)
1. (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.Examples: "His left hand countered provokingly."
2. (transitive, obsolete) To encounter.obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary