A Quick and Simple Dictionary

counter

1. Noun.  An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc.
2. Noun.  (curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.
3. Noun.  A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured.
4. Noun.  One who counts, or reckons up; a reckoner.
5. Noun.  A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations.
6. Noun.  (historical) The prison attached to a city court; a Counter.
7. Noun.  (context, 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.
8. Noun.  In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, whereon various food preparations take place.
9. Noun.  (wrestling) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.
10. Noun.  Something in contradiction or opposition to a proposal, suggestion, policy, etc.
11. Noun.  (computing, programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.
12. Noun.  (computing, internet) A hit counter.
13. Adverb.  Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.
14. Noun.  (nautical) The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline.
15. Noun.  (by extension) The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (''above'' the heel of the shoe/boot).
16. Verb.  To contradict, oppose.
17. Verb.  (context, boxing) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing.
18. Verb.  To take action in response to; to respond.
19. Adjective.  Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic.