meaning of counter
1. A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
2. One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.
3. A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.
4. Money; coin; -- used in contempt.
5. A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.
6. A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
7. 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.
8. Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.
9. In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
10. At or against the front or face.
11. Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.
12. The after part of a vessels body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.
13. 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.
14. The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.
15. The back leather or heel part of a boot.
16. An encounter.
17. To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
18. The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel.
19. A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive.
20. A counterpoise.
21. One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble; high tenor.
22. a return punch especially by a boxer
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