shabd-logo

Meaning of काउंटर in English

  • A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
  • One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.
  • A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.
  • Money; coin; -- used in contempt.
  • A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.
  • A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
  • A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.
  • Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.
  • In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
  • At or against the front or face.
  • Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
  • The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
  • Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.
  • The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
  • The back leather or heel part of a boot.
  • An encounter.
  • To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
  • A claim made by a person as an offset to a claim made on him.
  • A drone; a slow, lazy fellow; a sluggard.
  • A hindrance; an obstruction.
  • Any one of numerous species of terrestrial pulmonate mollusks belonging to Limax and several related genera, in which the shell is either small and concealed in the mantle, or altogether wanting. They are closely allied to the land snails.
  • Any smooth, soft larva of a sawfly or moth which creeps like a mollusk; as, the pear slug; rose slug.
  • A ship that sails slowly.
  • An irregularly shaped piece of metal, used as a missile for a gun.
  • A thick strip of metal less than type high, and as long as the width of a column or a page, -- used in spacing out pages and to separate display lines, etc.
  • To move slowly; to lie idle.
  • To make sluggish.
  • To load with a slug or slugs; as, to slug a gun.
  • To strike heavily.
  • To become reduced in diameter, or changed in shape, by passing from a larger to a smaller part of the bore of the barrel; -- said of a bullet when fired from a gun, pistol, or other firearm.
  • Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.
  • Running in an opposite direction.
  • A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.
  • Adorned with flowers (usually fleurs-de-lis) so divided that the tops appear on one side and the bottoms on the others; -- said of any ordinary.
  • of Counterman
  • A wall raised behind another, to supply its place when breached or destroyed. [R.] Cf. Contramure.
  • To fortify with a wall behind another wall.
  • To act against with equal weight; to equal in weight; to balance the weight of; to counterbalance.
  • To act against with equal power; to balance.
  • A weight sufficient to balance another, as in the opposite scale of a balance; an equal weight.
  • An equal power or force acting in opposition; a force sufficient to balance another force.
  • The relation of two weights or forces which balance each other; equilibrium; equiponderance.

English usage of काउंटर

    Synonyms of ‘काउंटर

      Antonyms of ‘काउंटर

      Articles Related to ‘काउंटर

        Browse Other Words By Clicking On Letters

        A
        B
        C
        D
        E
        F
        G
        H
        I
        J
        K
        L
        M
        N
        O
        P
        Q
        R
        S
        T
        U
        V
        W
        X
        Y
        Z
        A
        B
        C
        D
        E
        F
        G
        H
        I
        J
        K
        L
        M
        N
        O
        P
        Q
        R
        S
        T
        U
        V
        W
        X
        Y
        Z