Recount
[rɪ'kaʊnt]
Definition
(noun.) an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election.
(verb.) count again; 'We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made'.
Typist: Nelda--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To count or reckon again.
(n.) A counting again, as of votes.
(v.) To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.
Typist: Tito
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Rehearse, relate, recite, narrate, enumerate, tell, give an account of.
Typed by Amalia
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Rehearse, recite, narrate, detail, enumerate, specify
ANT:Falsify, misrecite, misnarrate, misenumerate, misrehearse
Typed by Eddie
Definition
v.t. to count again: to tell over again: to narrate the particulars of: to detail.—n. a second or repeated count.—ns. Recount′al Recount′ment relation in detail recital.
Typist: Weldon
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. In American politics another throw of the dice accorded to the player against whom they are loaded.
Editor: Lyle
Examples
- Among twenty there are many sins to recount. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- She affected to sneeze again, declared she was enrhumée, and then proceeded volubly to recount her courses en fiacre. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Years hence we shall recount to them our fears, then passed away with their occasion. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- These are but trivial incidents to recount in the life of our heroine. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Tupman, recount the circumstances. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- As we walked to and fro, all four together, before breakfast, I deemed it right to recount what I had seen. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- With which brief professional exordium, he entered on the history of the friendly move, and truly recounted it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Caddy enjoyed the effect of her communication and cheerfully recounted the particulars of her own studies. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Mr. Losberne, who appeared desirous of gaining time, recounted them at great length, and with much circumlocution. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- We judged it expedient, now, to tell her all we knew; which I recounted at length. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- You have acted and recounted faithfully. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He was immensely tickled by his own adventures and laughed heartily as he recounted them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Then, Rafael recounted me all of an entire novel of dung about cavalry. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No time was lost in fruitless recounting of my imprisonment. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- And therefore, in recounting the numbers of those who have been killed in battle, I cannot but think you have said the thing which is not. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Recounting to-night's triumph? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Typist: Stacey