Counter
(adv.) A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition |
Counter
(v. t.) One who counts, or reckons up |
Counter
(v. t.) A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc. |
Counter
(v. t.) Money |
Counter
(v. t.) A prison |
Counter
(v. t.) A telltale |
Counter
(v. t.) A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted |
Counter
(adv.) Contrary |
Counter
(adv.) In the wrong way |
Counter
(adv.) At or against the front or face. |
Counter
(a.) Contrary |
Counter
(adv.) The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, -- below and somewhat forward of the stern proper. |
Counter
(adv.) Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor. |
Counter
(adv.) The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck. |
Counter
(adv.) The back leather or heel part of a boot. |
Counter
(n.) An encounter. |
Counter
(v. i.) To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. |
Counter brace
() The brace of the fore-topsail on the leeward side of a vessel. |
Counter brace
() A brace, in a framed structure, which resists a strain of a character opposite to that which a main brace is designed to receive. |
Counter-compony
(a.) See Compony. |
Counter-couchant
(a.) Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions |
Counter-courant
(a.) Running in opposite directions |
Counter-paly
(a.) Paly, and then divided fesswise, so that each vertical piece is cut into two, having the colors used alternately or counterchanged. Thus the escutcheon in the illustration may also be blazoned paly of six per fess counterchanged argent and azure. |
Counter-roll
(n.) A duplicate roll (record or account) kept by an officer as a check upon another officer's roll. |
Counter-salient
(a.) Leaping from each other |
Counter tenor
() One of the middle parts in music, between the tenor and the treble |
Counter weight
(n.) A counterpoise. |
Hunt-counter
(n.) A worthless dog that runs back on the scent |
Order
(n.) Regular arrangement |
Order
(n.) Of material things, like the books in a library. |
Order
(n.) Of intellectual notions or ideas, like the topics of a discource. |
Order
(n.) Of periods of time or occurrences, and the like. |
Order
(n.) Right arrangement |
Order
(n.) The customary mode of procedure |
Order
(n.) Conformity with law or decorum |
Order
(n.) That which prescribes a method of procedure |
Order
(n.) A command |
Order
(n.) Hence: A commission to purchase, sell, or supply goods |
Order
(n.) A number of things or persons arranged in a fixed or suitable place, or relative position |
Order
(n.) A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation |
Order
(n.) An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop |
Order
(n.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture |
Order
(n.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common |
Order
(n.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression. |
Order
(n.) Rank |
Order
(n.) To put in order |
Order
(n.) To give an order to |
Order
(n.) To give an order for |
Order
(n.) To admit to holy orders |
Order
(v. i.) To give orders |
mail-order buying
catalog buying | buying goods to be shipped through the mail |
counterpunch
parry
counter | a return punch (especially by a boxer) |
tall order
large order | a formidable task or requirement, finishing in time was a tall order but we did it |
| order arms | a position in the manual of arms, the rifle is held vertically on the right side with the butt on the ground, often used as a command |
| close-order drill | (military) military drill of troops in standard marching (shoulder-to-shoulder) |
| counter-sabotage | counterintelligence designed to detect and counteract sabotage |
order
ordering | the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement, there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list |
| rank order | an arrangement according to rank |
| holy order | the sacrament of ordination |
| telephone order | receiving orders via telephone |
| animal order | the order of animals |
| protoctist order | the order of protoctists |
| bacteria order | an order of bacteria |
Eubacteriales
order Eubacteriales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-positive spherical or rod-shaped forms, some are motile, in some classifications considered an order of Schizomycetes |
Pseudomonadales
order Pseudomonadales | one of two usually recognized orders of true bacteria, Gram-negative spiral or spherical or rod-shaped bacteria usually motile by polar flagella, some contain photosynthetic pigments |
Rickettsiales
order Rickettsiales | pleomorphic Gram-negative microorganisms |
Mycoplasmatales
order Mycoplasmatales | coextensive with the family Mycoplasmataceae |
Actinomycetales
order Actinomycetales | filamentous or rod-shaped bacteria |
order Myxobacteria
Myxobacterales
order Myxobacterales
Myxobacteriales
order Myxobacteriales | an order of higher bacteria |
Spirochaetales
order Spirochaetales | higher bacteria, slender spiral rodlike forms |
Heliozoa
order Heliozoa | mostly freshwater protozoa |
Radiolaria
order Radiolaria | marine protozoa |
Amoebida
order Amoebida
Amoebina
order Amoebina | the animal order including amoebas |
Foraminifera
order Foraminifera | foraminifers |
Testacea
order Testacea | testacean rhizopods |
Heterotrichales
order Heterotrichales | yellow-green algae with simple or branching filaments, comprising the single family Tribonemaceae |
Laminariales
order Laminariales | in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas |
Fucales
order Fucales | coextensive with the family Fucaceae |
Ulvales
order Ulvales | an order of protoctist |
Volvocales
order Volvocales | chiefly freshwater green algae, solitary or colonial |
Zygnematales
order Zygnematales
Zygnemales
order Zygnemales | pond scums, desmids |
Chlorococcales
order Chlorococcales | unicellular green algae that reproduce by spores |
Oedogoniales
order oedogoniales | simple or branched filamentous freshwater green algae |
Charales
order Charales | small order of macroscopic fresh and brackish water algae with a distinct axis: stoneworts |
Dinoflagellata
order Dinoflagellata
Cilioflagellata
order Cilioflagellata | in some classifications considered a phylum of the kingdom Protista, in others included in the plant phylum Pyrrophyta |
Hypermastigina
order Hypermastigina | cellulose-producing flagellates |
Polymastigina
order Polymastigina | small usually parasitic flagellates |
Coccidia
order Coccidia | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Gregarinida
order Gregarinida | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Haemosporidia
order Haemosporidia | an order in the subclass Telosporidia |
Sarcosporidia
order Sarcosporidia | imperfectly known parasites of the muscles of vertebrates |
Haplosporidia
order Haplosporidia | an order in the subclass Acnidosporidia |
Actinomyxidia
order Actinomyxidia | parasites of worms |
Mycrosporidia
order Mycrosporidia | an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |
Myxosporidia
order Myxosporidia | an order in the subclass Cnidosporidia |
Ostariophysi
order Ostariophysi | in some classifications considered a superorder comprising the Cypriniformes and the Siluriformes |
Cypriniformes
order Cypriniformes | an order of animals including almost entirely freshwater fishes: characins, loaches, carp, suckers, sometimes classified as a suborder of Ostariophysi |
Berycomorphi
order Berycomorphi | an order of spiny-finned fish in the superorder Acanthopterygii |
Zeomorphi
order Zeomorphi | dories |
Solenichthyes
order Solenichthyes | bellows fishes, shrimpfishes, cornetfishes, pipefishes, small order of chiefly tropical marine fishes of varied and bizarre form all having a small mouth at the end of a drawn-out tubular snout |