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Card counting (Noun) A strategy, in pontoon or blackjack, in which a player keeps a mental tally of the cards played in order to calculate the probability of certain cards being dealt and therefore obtain an advantage. Freebase (0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition. (Chiefly in pontoon (blackjack)) the action or practice of keeping a mental tally of the cards played in a game in order to gain an (unfair) advantage. It is a comparing card game between one or more players and a dealer, where each player in turn competes against the dealer. Players do not compete against each other. It is played with one or more decks of 52 cards, and is the most widely played casino banking game in the world.

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count¹

(kount)v.tr.1.

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

b. To recite numerals in ascending order up to and including: count three before firing.

c. To include in a reckoning; take account of: ten dogs, counting the puppies.

2. Informal

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

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

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

v.intr.

1. To recite or list numbers in order or enumerate items by units or groups: counted by tens.

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

n.2.

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

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

4. 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.

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

Phrasal Verbs: count down

To recite numerals in descending order, as during a countdown.

count off

To recite numbers in turn, as when dividing people or things into groups : The 24 children counted off by twos, forming a dozen pairs.

count on

1. To rely on; depend on: You can count on my help.

2. To be confident of; anticipate: counted on getting a raise.

count out

To declare (a boxer) to have been knocked out by calling out the count.

Idiom: count heads/noses

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To make a count of members, attendees, or participants.

[Middle English counten, from Old French conter, from Latin computāre, to calculate : com-, com- + putāre, to think; see pau- in Indo-European roots.]

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count²

(kount)n.

2. Used as a title for such a nobleman.

[Middle English counte, from Old French conte, from Late Latin comes, comit-, occupant of any state office, from Latin, companion; see ei- in Indo-European roots.]

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

counting

(ˈkaʊntɪŋ) n

2. totalling up; adding

Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

Noun

counting - the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order; 'the counting continued for several hours'

count, enumeration, numeration, reckoning, tally

investigating, investigation - the work of inquiring into something thoroughly and systematically

blood count - the act of estimating the number of red and white corpuscles in a blood sample

census, nose count, nosecount - a periodic count of the population

countdown - counting backward from an arbitrary number to indicate the time remaining before some event (such as launching a space vehicle)

poll - the counting of votes (as in an election)

recount - an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election

sperm count - the act of estimating the number of spermatozoa in an ejaculate

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