counter
/ˈkaʊn.tɚ/ sustantivo B2En español: contador, mostrador, taquilla, counter
- One who counts. · He's only 16 months, but is already a good counter – he can count to 100.
- A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
- An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc. · He rolled a six on the dice, so moved his counter forward six spaces.
- A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
- A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
- A hit counter.
- A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted. · He put his money on the counter, and the shopkeeper put it in the till.
- A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
Plural counters
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“Do you know any other counter-poisons?”
The assistant had left the front shop for an instant, when he heard a crash, and hurrying in he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which stood with several other works of art upon the counter, lying shivered into fragments.
On my very counter, sir,” said he.
Barnicot’s, and one smashed in broad daylight on my own counter.
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