| 释义 |
overcount, v.|-ˈkaʊnt|
[over- 22, 26.]
1. trans. To exceed in number, outnumber.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. vi. 26 At land thou know'st How much we do o're-count thee. 1838Penny Cycl. 2nd Suppl. 360/2 Compared with the population of these cities..the whole of them little over-counting London alone [etc.].
2. To count or reckon in excess of the reality; to overestimate.
1593–4Sylvester Profit Imprisonm. 350 Nor hurt they any one, but him that over-counts them. 1897Review of Rev. Nov. 547 It is not overcounting to say that millions are convinced. |