counter : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an accountant or bureaucrat who is believed to place undue emphasis on the control of expenditures
  

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• noun a proportional counter tube for counting neutrons
  

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• noun a counter in a supermarket where you pay for your purchases
  checkout.
  

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• (Fort.), a trench or work pushed forward from defensive works to meet the approaches of besiegers. See Approach.

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• (Law), in old practice, a bond to secure one who has given bond for another.

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• . See Counter brace, in Vocabulary.

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• noun a blank check provided by a bank for the convenience of customers who are making withdrawals
  

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• noun conditioning in which a second incompatible response is conditioned to an already conditioned stimulus
  
  • counter conditioning lies behind many of the procedures used in behavior therapy

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• (Law), a secret writing which destroys, invalidates, or alters, a public deed.

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• contradistinction. Obs.

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• a drain at the foot of the embankment of a canal or watercourse, for carrying off the water that may soak through.

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• (Surg.), the fixation of the upper part of a limb, while extension is practiced on the lower part, as in cases of luxation or fracture.

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• (Surg.) Same as Contrafissure.

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• . (Med.) Same as Contraindication.

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• (Med.), an irritant to produce a blister, a pustular eruption, or other irritation in some part of the body, in order to relieve an existing irritation in some other part. "Counter irritants are of as great use in moral as in physical diseases." Macaulay.

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• (Med.), the act or the result of applying a counter irritant.

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• an aperture or vent on the opposite side, or in a different place. -

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• (Mil.), a word in addition to the password, given in time of alarm as a signal.

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• (Law), a replication to a plea. Cowell.

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• force or pressure that acts in a contrary direction to some other opposing pressure.

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• a project, scheme, or proposal brought forward in opposition to another, as in the negotiation of a treaty. Swift.

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• in engraving, a print taken off from another just printed, which, by being passed through the press, gives a copy in reverse, and of course in the same position as that of plate from which the first was printed, the object being to enable the engraver to inspect the state of the plate.

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• noun the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected); many leaders were Jesuits
  

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• a revolution opposed to a former one, and restoring a former state of things.

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• one engaged in, or befriending, a counter revolution.

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• (Mil.), a body of officers whose duty it is to visit and inspect the rounds and sentinels.

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• (Naut.), a sea running in an opposite direction from the wind.

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• opposite meaning.

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• a signal to answer or correspond to another.

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• the name of a secretary or other officer countersigned to a writing. . Tooke.

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• an overhanging slope; as, a wall with a counter slope. Mahan.

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• a statement made in opposition to, or denial of, another statement.

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• a counter bond, or a surety to secure one who has given security.

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• a tally corresponding to another.

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Coun"ter ten`or

Etymology

OF. contreteneur. Cf. Contratenor, and see Tenor a part in music.

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1. (Mus.) One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.

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• contrary tide.

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• noun a measuring instrument for counting individual ionizing events
  

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Coun"ter *weight` noun

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1. A counterpoise.

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Coun"ter-com*po`ny adjective

Definitions

1. (Her.) See Compony.

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Coun"ter-couch`ant adjective

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1. (Her.) Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.

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Coun"ter-cou*rant" adjective

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1. (Her.) Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.

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• verb drill in an opposite direction
  

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Coun"ter-pa`ly adjective

Etymology

F. contre-palé.

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1. (Her.) Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure.

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• noun a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution
  counterrevolutionist; counterrevolutionary.
  

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Coun"ter-roll` noun

Etymology

Cf. Control.

Definitions

1. (O. Eng. Law) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. Burrill. ✍ As a verb this word is contracted into control. See Control.

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• noun counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage
  

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Coun`ter-sa"li*ent adjective

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1. (Her.) Leaping from each other; -- said of two figures on a coast of arms.

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• noun a counter tube in which an ionizing event increases conductivity
  

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• noun electronic warfare undertaken to insure effective friendly use of the electromagnetic spectrum in spite of the enemy's use of electronic warfare
  ECCM.
  

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• noun counter tube that detects ionizing radiations
  Geiger counter.
  

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• noun counter tube that detects ionizing radiations
  Geiger counter.
  

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• noun a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot
  counter.
  
  • a counter may be used to stiffen the material around the heel and to give support to the foot

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Hunt"-count`er noun

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1. A worthless dog that runs back on the scent; a blunderer. Obs. Shak.

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• noun counter where meats are displayed for sale
  

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• noun counter where notions are sold
  

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• noun a security traded in the over-the-counter market
  unlisted security; OTC security.
  

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• noun stock that is not listed and traded on an organized exchange
  OTC stock; unlisted stock.
  

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• adjective purchasable without a doctor's prescription
  nonprescription.
  
  • nonprescription drugs
  • an over-the-counter cold remedy
• adjective satellite (of securities) not traded on a stock exchange
  otc.
  
  • over-the-counter stocks

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• noun a drug that is sold without a prescription
  over-the-counter drug.
  

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• noun a stock exchange where securities transactions are made via telephone and computer rather than on the floor of an exchange
  OTC market.
  

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• noun a drug that is sold without a prescription
  over-the-counter drug.
  

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• noun counter tube whose output pulse is proportional to number of ions produced
  proportional counter.
  

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• noun counter tube whose output pulse is proportional to number of ions produced
  proportional counter.
  

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• noun an electronic counter that counts the number of electric pulses
  

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• noun counter tube in which light flashes when exposed to ionizing radiation
  

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• noun usually inexpensive bar
  snack bar; buffet.
  

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• an old English child's game, in which one throws a counter on the ground, and another tries to hit it with his counter, or to get his counter so near it that he can span the space between them, and touch both the counters. Halliwell. "Henry V., in whose time boys went to span counter for French crowns." Shak.

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• noun an instrument that detects ionizing radiation from elementary particles
  spark chamber.
  

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• to trace the scent backward in hunting, as a hound to go back on one's steps. Obs.

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• adjective satellite done or sold illicitly and secretly;
  

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• noun an official appointed to count the votes (especially in legislative assembly)
  teller.
  

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