count noun : charge specifically : a charge (as in a complaint or indictment) that separately states a cause of action or especially offense guilty on all counts

It's often the little things that count the most. She's never lied to me, and in my book that counts for a lot. It's quality not quantity that really counts. Your health is what counts - the cost of the treatment is not …

Baseball The number of balls and strikes that an umpire has called against a batter.

The COUNTIFS function applies criteria to cells across multiple ranges and counts the number of times all criteria are met.

We want to chase “these big things,” as he described them, but sometimes it’s the small stuff we encounter along the way that counts the most. From MarketWatch

To count is to calculate how many or how much of something there is. A first grade teacher might stop and count her students before they board a bus after a field trip. You can count your money, adding …

to count the items of a collection one by one in order to determine the total: She counted three times before she was satisfied that none was missing. to list or name numerals in order: to count to 100 by …

If something or someone counts for something or counts, they are important or valuable. It doesn't matter what you've said; what counts is how you act.

A laptop computer counts as a piece of luggage on the plane. The job is so easy that it hardly counts as work. [=it can hardly be considered to be work]

It's often the little things that count the most. She's never lied to me, and in my book that counts for a lot. It's quality not quantity that really counts. Your health is what counts - the cost of the treatment is not …