uncount
English
Verb
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.
Adjective
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’.
Derived terms
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