It's often the little things that count the most. She's never lied to me, and in my book that counts for a lot. It's quality not quantity that really counts. Your health is what counts - the cost of the treatment is not …

count noun : charge specifically : a charge (as in a complaint or indictment) that separately states a cause of action or especially offense guilty on all counts

Baseball The number of balls and strikes that an umpire has called against a batter.

To count is to calculate how many or how much of something there is. A first grade teacher might stop and count her students before they board a bus after a field trip. You can count your money, adding …

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. to list or name numerals in order: to count to 100 by …

Starting in 2014, an annual count of individuals/families experiencing homelessness in New Jersey. The count takes place during the last 10 days of January.

Count definition: To believe or consider to be; deem.

A laptop computer counts as a piece of luggage on the plane. The job is so easy that it hardly counts as work. [=it can hardly be considered to be work]

If something or someone counts for something or counts, they are important or valuable. It doesn't matter what you've said; what counts is how you act.

Definition of count verb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. [intransitive] to say numbers in the correct order. Billy can't count yet. count (up) to something She can count up to 10 in Italian. We …