Usually means: Device or surface for counting, serving.
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General (32 matching dictionaries)
  1. counter, counter-: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. counter, counter, counter, counter-: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. counter, counter, counter, counter-: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. counter, counter-: Collins English Dictionary
  5. counter: Vocabulary.com
  6. Counter, counter, counter-, the-counter: Wordnik
  7. counter, counter-: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Counter, counter, counter-: Wiktionary
  9. counter, counter-: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. counter, counter-: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. counter: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. counter, counter-: Dictionary.com
  13. counter-, counter (n.), counter (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. counter: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Counter (board wargames), Counter (digital), Counter (footwear), Counter (furniture), Counter (typography), Counter, The Counter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Counter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. counter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. counter: Rhymezone
  19. counter, counter-: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. counter: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. counter, counter-: MyWord.info
  22. counter, counter-: Free Dictionary
  23. counter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Counter, counter: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  25. counter, counter, counter-: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  3. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  4. counter: Legal dictionary
  5. counter: Financial dictionary
  6. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  7. WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. counter: Netlingo
  2. counter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. counter, counter-: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. COUNTER: Acronym Finder
  2. counter: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Counter: NRC Glossary of Nuclear Terms --
  2. Counter: Fundamental Statistics for the Behavioral Sciences

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Counter: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Counter: Backgammon
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Counter: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  4. Chemical Fact Sheet (No longer online)
  5. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)
  6. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  7. Counter: Latitude Mexico

(Note: See countered as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  One who counts.
noun:  A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator.
noun:  An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
noun:  A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
noun:  (programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
noun:  (Internet) A hit counter.
noun:  A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted
noun:  A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
noun:  In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation.
noun:  In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin.
noun:  (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
noun:  (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.
noun:  (grammar) A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
adverb:  Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
adverb:  In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.
noun:  Something opposite or contrary to something else.
noun:  (martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
noun:  (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
noun:  The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot).
noun:  The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
noun:  (typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.
noun:  (obsolete) An encounter.
noun:  counterattack
verb:  To contradict, oppose.
verb:  (boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
verb:  To take action in response to; to respond.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To encounter.
adjective:  Contrary or opposing
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (music) Alternative form of contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.

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