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Account vs. Count — What's the Difference?

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Account

A narrative or record of events.

Count

Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. The etymologically related English term "county" denoted the land owned by a count.

Account

A reason given for a particular action or event
What is the account for this loss?.

Count

To name or list (the units of a group or collection) one by one in order to determine a total; number.

Account

A report relating to one's conduct
Gave a satisfactory account of herself.
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Count

To recite numerals in ascending order up to and including
Count three before firing.

Account

A basis or ground
No reason to worry on that account.

Count

To include in a reckoning; take account of
Ten dogs, counting the puppies.

Account

A formal banking, brokerage, or business relationship established to provide for regular services, dealings, and other financial transactions.

Count

To include by or as if by counting
Count me in.

Account

A precise list or enumeration of financial transactions.

Count

To exclude by or as if by counting
Count me out.

Account

A sum of money deposited for checking, savings, or brokerage use.

Count

To believe or consider to be; deem
Count yourself lucky.

Account

A customer having a business or credit relationship with a firm
Salespeople visiting their accounts.

Count

To recite or list numbers in order or enumerate items by units or groups
Counted by tens.

Account

A private access to a computer system or online service, usually requiring a password to enter.

Count

To have importance
You really count with me.

Account

Worth, standing, or importance
A landowner of some account.

Count

To have a specified importance or value
Their opinions count for little. Each basket counts for two points.

Account

Profit or advantage
Turned her writing skills to good account.

Count

(Music) To keep time by counting beats.

Account

To consider as being; deem. See Usage Note at as1.

Count

The act of counting or calculating.

Account

(accounting) A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.

Count

A number reached by counting.

Account

(banking) A bank account.

Count

The totality of specific items in a particular sample
A white blood cell count.

Account

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
No satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena.

Count

(Law) Any of the separate and distinct charges or causes of action in an indictment or complaint.

Account

A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
Don't trouble yourself on my account.
On no account
On every account
On all accounts

Count

(Sports) The counting from one to ten seconds, during which time a boxer who has been knocked down must rise or be declared the loser.

Account

A record of events; a relation or narrative.
An account of a battle.

Count

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

Account

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

Count

A nobleman in some European countries.

Account

Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.

Count

Used as a title for such a nobleman.

Account

Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
I've opened an account with Wikipedia so that I can contribute and partake in the project.

Count

(intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.

Account

(archaic) A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning.

Count

(transitive) To determine the number of (objects in a group).
Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.

Account

(uncountable) Profit; advantage.
The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.

Count

(intransitive) To amount to, to number in total.

Account

To provide explanation.

Count

(intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.
Your views don’t count here.
It does count if you cheat with someone when you’re drunk.

Account

To present an account of; to answer for, to justify.

Count

(intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.
Apples count as a type of fruit.

Account

To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc.

Count

(transitive) To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.
He counts himself a hero after saving the cat from the river.
I count you as more than a friend.

Account

(transitive) To estimate, consider (something to be as described).

Count

(transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.
They walked for three days, not counting the time spent resting.

Account

(intransitive) To consider that.

Count

To take account or note (of), to care (for).

Account

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc.
An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

Count

To recount, to tell.

Account

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for.
We must account for the use of our opportunities.

Count

To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

Account

(intransitive) To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain.
Idleness accounts for poverty.

Count

The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.

Account

(intransitive) To establish the location for someone.
After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.

Count

The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.

Account

(intransitive) To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for).

Count

A countdown.

Account

To count.

Count

(legal) A charge of misconduct brought in a legal proceeding.

Account

To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time).

Count

(baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.
He has a 3–2 count with the bases loaded.

Account

(obsolete) To count (up), enumerate.

Count

(obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.

Account

(obsolete) To recount, relate (a narrative etc.).

Count

The male ruler of a county.

Account

A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning; as, the Julian account of time.
A beggarly account of empty boxes.

Count

A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.

Account

A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review; as, to keep one's account at the bank.

Count

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Tanaecia. Other butterflies in this genus are called earls and viscounts.

Account

A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; as, no satisfactory account has been given of these phenomena. Hence, the word is often used simply for reason, ground, consideration, motive, etc.; as, on no account, on every account, on all accounts.

Count

Countable.

Account

A statement of facts or occurrences; recital of transactions; a relation or narrative; a report; a description; as, an account of a battle.

Count

To tell or name one by one, or by groups, for the purpose of ascertaining the whole number of units in a collection; to number; to enumerate; to compute; to reckon.
Who can count the dust of Jacob?
In a journey of forty miles, Avaux counted only three miserable cabins.

Account

A statement and explanation or vindication of one's conduct with reference to judgment thereon.
Give an account of thy stewardship.

Count

To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.
Abracham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

Account

An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.

Count

To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.
I count myself in nothing else so happyAs in a soul remembering my good friends.

Account

Importance; worth; value; advantage; profit.
This other part . . . makes account to find no slender arguments for this assertion out of those very scriptures which are commonly urged against it.

Count

To number or be counted; to possess value or carry weight; hence, to increase or add to the strength or influence of some party or interest; as, every vote counts; accidents count for nothing.
This excellent man . . . counted among the best and wisest of English statesmen.

Account

To reckon; to compute; to count.
The motion of . . . the sun whereby years are accounted.

Count

To reckon; to rely; to depend; - with on or upon.
He was brewer to the palace; and it was apprehended that the government counted on his voice.
I think it a great error to count upon the genius of a nation as a standing argument in all ages.

Account

To place to one's account; to put to the credit of; to assign; - with to.

Count

To take account or note; - with

Account

To value, estimate, or hold in opinion; to judge or consider; to deem.
Accounting that God was able to raise him up.

Count

To plead orally; to argue a matter in court; to recite a count.

Account

To recount; to relate.

Count

The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.
Of blessed saints for to increase the count.
By this count, I shall be much in years.

Account

To render or receive an account or relation of particulars; as, an officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.

Count

An object of interest or account; value; estimation.

Account

To render an account; to answer in judgment; - with for; as, we must account for the use of our opportunities.

Count

A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution.

Account

To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to explain; - with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty.
Newer was preaching more accounted of than in the sixteenth century.

Count

A nobleman on the continent of Europe, equal in rank to an English earl.

Account

A formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services;
He asked to see the executive who handled his account

Count

The total number counted;
A blood count

Account

The act of informing by verbal report;
He heard reports that they were causing trouble
By all accounts they were a happy couple

Count

The act of counting;
The counting continued for several hours

Account

A record or narrative description of past events;
A history of France
He gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president
The story of exposure to lead

Count

A nobleman (in various countries) having rank equal to a British earl

Account

A short account of the news;
The report of his speech
The story was on the 11 o'clock news
The account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious

Count

Determine the number or amount of;
Can you count the books on your shelf?
Count your change

Account

A statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;
They send me an accounting every month

Count

Have weight; have import, carry weight;
It does not matter much

Account

A statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.;
The explanation was very simple
I expected a brief account

Count

Show consideration for; take into account;
You must consider her age
The judge considered the offender's youth and was lenient

Account

An itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered;
He paid his bill and left
Send me an account of what I owe

Count

Name or recite the numbers;
The toddler could count to 100

Account

Grounds;
Don't do it on my account
The paper was rejected on account of its length
He tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful

Count

Put into a group;
The academy counts several Nobel Prize winners among its members

Account

Importance or value;
A person of considerable account
He predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance

Count

Include as if by counting;
I can count my colleagues in the opposition

Account

The quality of taking advantage;
She turned her writing skills to good account

Count

Have faith or confidence in;
You can count on me to help you any time
Look to your friends for support
You can bet on that!
Depend on your family in times of crisis

Account

Be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something;
Passing grades account for half of the grades given in this exam

Count

Take account of;
You have to reckon with our opponents
Count on the monsoon

Account

Keep an account of

Account

To give an account or representation of in words;
Discreet Italian police described it in a manner typically continental

Account

Furnish a justifying analysis or explanation;
I can't account for the missing money

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