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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

... now betrayed a course northwest-by-north. Had the binnacle compass, then, gone out of its head altogether, on finding itself bereft of its accustomed court of counter-attractions?) ...

— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance

... although he lived just across the border of another state. The warrant was served upon the man as he stepped from the train on his way to work, and he appeared in the domestic relations court. He did not deny the desertion but made some attempt to bring counter charges against his wife. When questioned about his present mode of living he became silent and refused to testify further. He was placed under bond, which was furnished by the relatives of the ...

— Broken Homes - A Study of Family Desertion and its Social Treatment • Joanna C. Colcord

... you all and how about it. You see there's a gentleman lecturing on music at th' Mechanics', and he wants folk to sing his songs. Well, last night the counter got a sore throat and couldn't make a note. So they sent for me. Jacob Butterworth had said a good word for me, and they asked me would I sing? You may think I was frightened, but I thought, Now or never, and ...

— Mary Barton • Elizabeth Gaskell

... comprehensive and less exclusive, in which case national aims must be estimated and appraised with reference to a higher aim, and a national policy must be judged according as it furthers or runs counter to the ...

— German Problems and Personalities • Charles Sarolea

... copy, and consigned the original to the governor for transmission to Constantinople. He, in accepting it, ordered the assembly to disperse and wait at home for the answer. He had on a previous occasion tried the same device, and when the assembly had dispersed he had arrested the chiefs, called a counter assemblage of his partisans, and got up a counter petition, which he sent to the Sultan. They, therefore, refused this time to separate. The reverence of the Cretans for their traditional procedure was such that when the assembly had dissolved, ...

— The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II • William James Stillman

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