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countify

countify verb: to use as a count noun.

Verb

countify (third-person singular simple present countifies, present participle countifying, simple past and past participle countified)

  1. (rare, transitive) To use as a count noun.
    • We can, for instance, “countify” mass nouns which come to be associated with a standard counter or container. […] Also in distinguishing some particular kind or type of the mass noun substance (by a limiting modifier of some kind), it is possible to readily countify: […]1965, Robert P. Stockwell, Jean Donald Bowen, and John Watson Martin, The Grammatical Structures of English and Spanish, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 81
    • Any stuff for which there are standard portions used for whatever purposes will immediately become countified: three beers, an ice cream, an entertainment, etc.1989, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, Lenhart K. Schubert, “Mass Expressions”, in Dov M. Gabbay, F. Guenthner, editors, Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Second Edition, volume 10, Springer, published 2003...

Forms of countify

third-person singular presentcountifies
present participlecountifying
past participlecountified
pastcountified

Origin of countify

From count + -ify.

Questions about countify

What does countify mean?
Countify means to use as a count noun.
What part of speech is countify?
Countify is a verb.
What is the past tense of countify?
The past tense of countify is countified.

Words near countify in the dictionary

  1. counties palatinate
  2. counties palatine
  3. countification
  4. countified
  5. countifies
  6. countify
  7. countifying
  8. countin'
  9. counting
  10. counting against
  11. counting agent

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