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Definitions
Tally; also number reached by counting
Word origin
From Middle English counten, borrowed from Anglo-Norman conter, from Old French conter (“add up; tell a story”), from Latin computō (“to compute”). In this sense, displaced native Old English tellan, whence Modern English tell. Doublet of compute.
Used in a sentence
“Can you count to a hundred?”
“The psychiatrist asked her to count down from a hundred by sevens.”
“Count the number of apples in the bag and write down the number on the spreadsheet.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Add up numbers”5 letters
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