counting

KOWN-ing/ˈkaʊ.nɪŋ/

Noun pluralcountings (some meanings)

3 meanings of counting

1
verb
Present participle and gerund of count.
He stood by the door, counting everyone who entered the hall.
Counting the votes took the officials most of the night.
Note
The verb form carries every meaning of count, not only tallying: a child counting to ten, a vote still counting for something, a friend counting as family. Its gerund and the noun for the act share a spelling but split on grammar. The gerund takes a direct object (counting the votes). The noun takes of (the counting of the votes), and only the noun can be pluralized, as countings.
2
noununcountable
The act of working out how many items are present by tallying them one at a time.
The counting of donations continued for hours after the event closed.
Manual counting of the inventory takes the store a full weekend each year.
Similartally, enumeration
3
nouncountable or uncountable
A total or tally; the number arrived at by working through a set of items.
The official counting reached five thousand votes by dawn.
Their counting of the herd came to forty head.
Similartally, total

counting is a form of count

count, verb: To find out how many objects are in a group by adding them up one by one. Full entry

Forms: countcounts he/she/itcounting -ing formcounted past tense, past participle
Spelling: count → counting: add -ing

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