counts

Noun

count (plural counts)

1. The act of counting or tallying a quantity.
   • Give the chairs a quick count to check if we have enough.
2. The result of a tally that reveals the number of items in a set; a quantity counted.
   • By the official count, there are something like thirteen hundred species of birds in the Amazon, but Cohn-Haft thinks there are actually a good many more, because people have relied too much on features like size and plumage and not paid enough attention to sound.2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Picador, →ISBN, page 177
3. A countdown.
4. A distinct and separate charge in an indictment or complaint.
   • Zou, who was living in Elephant and Castle, south-east London, was convicted of 11 counts of rape, with two of the offences relating to one victim. He was also convicted of three counts of voyeurism, 10 of possession of an extreme pornographic image, one of false imprisonment and three of...2025 June 19, “Student who raped 10 women jailed for 24 years”, in bbc.com
5. 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.
6. (obsolete) An object of interest or account; value; estimation.
   • When he was readie to his steede to mount / Vnto his way, which now was all his care and count.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 16

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