uncount
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[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Verb
[edit]uncount (third-person singular simple present uncounts, present participle uncounting, simple past and past participle uncounted)
- (transitive, intransitive) To deduct from a count; discount or subtract.
- 2017, Eugenia Cheng, Beyond Infinity:
- Children accomplish learning how to count, and then almost immediately they have to learn how to 'uncount', that is, subtract.
- 2019, Sue Pope, Pablo Mayorga, Enriching Mathematics in the Primary Curriculum, page 84:
- The jar rocks and falls, allowing the mice to 'uncount' themselves from the jar. The large mouse turns out to be a rock and the snake is left hungry.
Etymology 2
[edit]Adjective
[edit]uncount (not comparable)
- (linguistics, grammar) Uncountable.
- 2014, James Lambert, “Diachronic stability in Indian English lexis”, in World Englishes, page 118:
- For example, the term abuse would require at least one definition for the uncount usage ‘invective, insulting language’, and another for the count usage ‘an item of invective, an insult’.