单词 | count out |
释义 | > as lemmasto count out to count out 1. transitive. See sense 1c. 2. transitive. To adjudge (a boxer, etc.) to be the loser by a count (count n.1 1c); frequently passive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > boxing > box [verb (transitive)] > count out to count out1808 1808 Repertory (Boston) 2 Aug. The judges were proceeding to ‘count out’ his antagonist [sc. a fighting cock]. 1903 Science Siftings XXIV. 79/1 He falls, and is counted out. 1923 Soutar Battling Barker xx. 282 He is down on the canvas and the referee is shouting in his ear. He is being counted out. 1965 M. Golesworthy Encycl. Boxing (ed. 3) 63/1 Dupas was counted out by the official ‘counter’. 3. intransitive. In children's games, to count (the players) with the words of a rhyme, formula, etc., the last at each turn being reckoned out of the game or chosen for a particular rôle in the game (see quots.); also intransitive. Hence counting-out rhyme, counting-out song. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > [verb (transitive)] > count out players by formula to count out1842 society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > light poem > [noun] > counting-out rhyme counting-out rhyme1900 1842 J. O. Halliwell Nursery Rhymes 123 Children stand round, and are counted out one by one by means of this rhyme. 1849 J. O. Halliwell Pop. Rhymes & Nursery Tales iii. 134 The operation of counting-out is a very important mystery in many puerile games. 1888 H. C. Bolton Counting-out Rhymes 2 The leader then counts out once more, and the child not set free by the magic word is declared to be ‘it’. 1900 E. V. Lucas & E. Lucas What shall we do Now? 99 To decide who is to begin a game there are various counting-out rhymes. All the players stand in a circle, surrounding the one who counts. At each pause in the rhyme..this one touches the players in turn until the end is reached. The player to whom the last number comes is to begin. 1919 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 32 377 Counting-out rhymes, or ‘Counts’, are said in connection with..‘Seek and Find’. 1923 R. Kipling Land & Sea Tales 279 (title) A counting-out song. 1956 W. H. Auden Making, Knowing & Judging 8 Unofficial poetry, such as counting-out rhymes, and official poetry such as the odes of Keats. 4. transitive. To leave out of count or consideration; to reckon as not to be counted or depended upon; to exclude. colloquial (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > dismiss from consideration to put out of ——a1250 to lay awaya1400 to set asidec1407 to lay by1439 to lay asidec1440 to let (something) walkc1450 to set apart?1473 reject1490 seclude?1531 to let go1535 to put offc1540 to set by1592 sepose1593 to think away1620 to look over ——a1640 prescind1650 seposit1657 decognize1659 inconsider1697 to set over1701 shelf1819 sink1820 shelve1847 eliminate1848 to count out1854 discounta1856 defenestrate1917 neg1987 1854 Knickerbocker June 643 When it comes to hunting grizzlies on a pony, jist ‘count me out’. 1863 Congress. Globe 23 Feb. 1227/3 If that is the gentleman's idea, I beg him to count me out. 1890 Congr. Globe 3 June 5545/1 The Democratic party..habitually count out the negro vote. 1906 Churchman (Hartford, Conn.) 17 Nov. 743 We are ignored and counted out in the efforts of the common people to secure a fair chance. 1926 E. Wallace Yellow Snake iii. 27 So far as marriage with an unknown man is concerned, you can count me out. 1937 A. Christie Murder in Mews iv. 116 ‘Mrs. Vanderlyn is perhaps the dear friend of some one else in the house?’ ‘You can count me out!’ said Sir George with a grin. 5. transitive and intransitive. Australian and New Zealand. To count the number of sheep as they leave the shearing-shed. So counting-out pen. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > [noun] > pens used before or after shearing catching pen1826 sweating-house1832 counting-out pen1874 sweating pen1882 the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > shear sheep [verb (transitive)] > count sheared sheep to count out1874 1874 J. A. H. Caird Notes on Sheepfarming in N.Z. iii. 23 A small door for each shearer to put his shorn sheep out of the shed, and into the counting out pens. 1891 R. Wallace Rural Econ. Austral. & N.Z. xxix. 381 [After being shorn] the sheep are inspected by the manager in charge before they are counted out and allowed to mix with the general flock. 1950 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. May 463/2 It is often an advantage to clear the counting-out pens as frequently as possible during shearing or crutching. 6. intransitive. To turn out on being counted. U.S. ΚΠ 1903 A. Adams Log of Cowboy ii. 13 Just so the herd don't count out shy on the day of delivery. to count out c. to count up: to find the whole sum of by counting, to reckon up. to count out: to count and give out or take out (from a stock), to count so as to exhaust the stock. to count out the House (of Commons): to bring the sitting to a close on counting the number of members present (which the Speaker must do when his attention is drawn to the matter) and finding it less than forty, the number required to ‘make a House’; also loosely to count out a member or to count out a measure, i.e. to stop him or it by this means. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > of an assembly: hold a session [verb (intransitive)] > adjourn > cause House of Commons to to count out the House1833 the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] > separate by counting tellOE tale1631 to tell off1827 to count out1865 the mind > possession > giving > distributing or dealing out > distribute or deal out [verb (transitive)] > count or measure out meteOE measurea1325 markc1330 admeasure1469 tale1631 dimensea1641 to count out1865 the world > relative properties > number > enumeration, reckoning, or calculation > number, calculate, or reckon [verb (transitive)] rimeeOE arimec885 atellc885 talec897 i-telle971 tellOE readc1225 reckon?c1225 aima1375 numbera1382 denumber1382 accounta1393 casta1400 countc1400 umberc1400 ascribe1432 annumerate?a1475 to sum upa1475 annumbera1500 ennumber1535 reckon?1537 tally1542 compute1579 recount1581 rate1599 catalogize1602 to add up1611 suma1616 enumeratea1649 numerate1657 to run up1830 to figure out1834 figure1854 to count up1872 enumer1936 1833 [implied in: Ann. Reg. 34 If no counting out of the House took place, the House might resume at 5. (at counting n. 1)]. 1839 Ann. Register 51 [He] had not proceeded far in his address, when the House was counted out. 1862 Illustr. London News 41 74/2 Mr. Freeland..was counted out summarily. 1865 E. B. Tylor Res. Early Hist. Mankind iv. 73 The action of counting out coin. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire iii. 92 To count up his talents and the usury of his own which he added to them. 1884 Graphic 21 June 595/2 It was expected that..the House would be counted out at 9 o'clock. < as lemmas |
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