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  • 21count down — recite or display numbers backwards to zero to indicate remaining time, especially before the launch of a rocket. → count …

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  • 22count down — intransitive verb see countdown …

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  • 23COUNT-DOWN — …

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  • 24Count Owen — Count Owen, de son vrai nom Owen Emanuel, est un chanteur et guitariste de mento et calypso né en 1933 à St Mary en Jamaïque. Il enregistre dès le début des années 1950 de nombreux disques pour les labels MRS de Stanley Motta et Kalypso de Ken… …

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  • 25count — Ⅰ. count [1] ► VERB 1) determine the total number of. 2) recite numbers in ascending order. 3) take into account; include. 4) regard or be regarded as possessing a quality or fulfilling a role: people she had counted as her friends. 5) be… …

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  • 26down-and-out — down and outs also down and out ADJ GRADED: usu ADJ n If you describe someone as down and out, you mean that they have no job and nowhere to live, and they have no real hope of improving their situation. ...a short story about a down and out… …

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  • 27count — count1 W3S1 [kaunt] v ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(find the total)¦ 2¦(say numbers)¦ 3¦(be allowed)¦ 4¦(include)¦ 5¦(consider something)¦ 6¦(important)¦ 7 I/you can count somebody/something on (the fingers of) one hand 8 don t count your chickens (before they re… …

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  • 28count — 1 /kaUnt/ verb 1 SAY NUMBERS also count up (I) to say numbers in their correct order (+ to): Sarah can count up to five now. | Try to count to ten before you lose your temper. 2 FIND THE TOTAL also count up (T) to count the people, objects,… …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 29count — count1 /kownt/, v.t. 1. to check over (the separate units or groups of a collection) one by one to determine the total number; add up; enumerate: He counted his tickets and found he had ten. 2. to reckon up; calculate; compute. 3. to list or name …

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  • 30count — count1 [ kaunt ] verb *** ▸ 1 say how many there are ▸ 2 say numbers in order ▸ 3 include in calculation ▸ 4 be important ▸ 5 treat/consider as something ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) intransitive or transitive to calculate how many people or things there are …

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