Measure vs. Count — What's the Difference?

A reference standard or sample used for the quantitative comparison of properties

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.

A unit specified by a scale, such as an inch, or by variable conditions, such as a day's march.

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

A system of measurement, such as the metric system.

To recite numerals in ascending order up to and including

The dimensions, quantity, or capacity of something as ascertained by comparison with a standard

To include in a reckoning; take account of

A device used for measuring.

To include by or as if by counting

The act of measuring

To exclude by or as if by counting

An evaluation or a basis of comparison

To believe or consider to be; deem

Extent or degree

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

A definite quantity that has been measured out

To have importance

A fitting amount

To have a specified importance or value

A limited amount or degree

(Music) To keep time by counting beats.

Limit; bounds

The act of counting or calculating.

Appropriate restraint; moderation

A number reached by counting.

An action taken as a means to an end; an expedient

The totality of specific items in a particular sample

A law or ballot initiative adopted by a legislature as a remedy for a problem.

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

Poetic meter.

(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.

(Music) The metric unit between two bars on the staff; a bar.

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

To ascertain the dimensions, quantity, or capacity of

A nobleman in some European countries.

To mark, lay out, or establish dimensions for by measuring

Used as a title for such a nobleman.

To mark off or apportion, usually with reference to a given unit of measurement

(intransitive) To recite numbers in sequence.

To allot or distribute as if by measuring; mete

(transitive) To determine the number of (objects in a group).

To estimate by evaluation or comparison

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

To bring into comparison

(intransitive) To be of significance; to matter.

To serve as a measure of

(intransitive) To be an example of something: often followed by as and an indefinite noun.

To consider or choose with care; weigh

(transitive) To consider something as an example of something or as having some quality; to account, to regard as.

(Archaic) To travel over

(transitive) To reckon in, to include in consideration.

To be of a specific measurement

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

To take a measurement.

To recount, to tell.

To allow of measurement

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

A prescribed quantity or extent.

The act of counting or tallying a quantity.

(obsolete) Moderation, temperance.

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

A limit that cannot be exceeded; a bound. (Now chiefly in set phrases.)

A countdown.

An (unspecified) portion or quantity.

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

The act or result of measuring.

(baseball) The number of balls and strikes, respectively, on a batter's in-progress plate appearance.

A receptacle or vessel of a standard size, capacity etc. as used to deal out specific quantities of some substance.

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

A standard against which something can be judged; a criterion.

The male ruler of a county.

Any of various standard units of capacity.

A nobleman holding a rank intermediate between dukes and barons.

A unit of measurement.

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

The size of someone or something, as ascertained by measuring. (Now chiefly in make to measure.)

Countable.

The act or process of measuring.

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.

A ruler, measuring stick, or graduated tape used to take measurements.

To place to an account; to ascribe or impute; to consider or esteem as belonging.

A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; a divisor or factor.

To esteem; to account; to reckon; to think, judge, or consider.

(geology) A bed or stratum.

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.

(mathematics) A function that assigns a non-negative number to a given set following the mathematical nature that is common among length, volume, probability and the like.

To reckon; to rely; to depend; - with on or upon.

Metrical rhythm.

To take account or note; - with

A melody.

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

A dance.

The act of numbering; reckoning; also, the number ascertained by counting.

(poetry) The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a metrical foot.

An object of interest or account; value; estimation.

(music) A musical designation consisting of all notes and or rests delineated by two vertical bars; an equal and regular division of the whole of a composition; a bar.

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.

A course of action.

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

(in plural) Actions designed to achieve some purpose; plans.

The total number counted;

A piece of legislation.

The act of counting;

To ascertain the quantity of a unit of material via calculated comparison with respect to a standard.

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

(stative) To be of (a certain size), to have (a certain measurement)

Determine the number or amount of;

To estimate the unit size of something.

Have weight; have import, carry weight;

To judge, value, or appraise.

Show consideration for; take into account;

To obtain or set apart; to mark in even increments.

Name or recite the numbers;

(rare) To traverse, cross, pass along; to travel over.

Put into a group;

To adjust by a rule or standard.

Include as if by counting;

To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; often with out or off.

Have faith or confidence in;

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.

Take account of;

An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like.

The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one's measure for a coat.

The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount.

Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure.

Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion.

The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure.

Undefined quantity; extent; degree.

Regulated division of movement

A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers; a denominator. See common denominator under denominator.

A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure.

The act of measuring; measurement.

Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures.

To ascertain by use of a measuring instrument; to compute or ascertain the extent, quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by a certain rule or standard; to take the dimensions of; hence, to estimate; to judge of; to value; to appraise.

To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature.

To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance.

To adjust by a rule or standard.

To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; - often with out or off.

To make a measurement or measurements.

To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally.

To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter.

The act or process of measuring;

A basis for comparison; a reference point against which other things can be evaluated;

How much there is of something that you can quantify

Any maneuver made as part of progress toward a goal;

A statute in draft before it becomes law;

(prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse

Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats;

Measuring instrument having a sequence of marks at regular intervals; used as a reference in making measurements

Determine the measurements of something or somebody, take measurements of;

Express as a number or measure or quantity;

Have certain dimensions;

Place a value on; judge the worth of something;