Synonym: antagonistic, anticipate, buffet, comeback, counterpunch, foresee, forestall, heel counter, parry, rejoinder, replication, retort, return, riposte, sideboard, tabulator. Similar words: counterpart, country, county, account, count out, count on, discount, account for. Meaning: ['kaʊntə] 
n. 1. table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted 2. game equipment used in various card or board games 3. a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens 4. a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers 5. a person who counts things 6. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) 7. (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers) 8. a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot 9. a return punch (especially by a boxer). v. 1. speak in response 2. act in advance of; deal with ahead of time. adj. indicating opposition or resistance. adv. in the opposite direction.
n. 1. table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted 2. game equipment used in various card or board games 3. a calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens 4. a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers 5. a person who counts things 6. a quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one) 7. (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers) 8. a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot 9. a return punch (especially by a boxer). v. 1. speak in response 2. act in advance of; deal with ahead of time. adj. indicating opposition or resistance. adv. in the opposite direction. 
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91. Glasses and milk bottles rattled on the counter.
92. Mock's have a new chap on the bacon counter.
93. His level - headedness counter - balances her impetuousness.
94. The girl had left the weighing counter.
95. The attendant clambered out from behind the counter, one of his colleagues taking his place.
96. Something you could buy over the counter at a supermarket.
97. Cornelius plucked an apple from a basket on the low counter.
98. Clearly the sale of cigarettes to a publican for the purpose of resale across the counter is not a consumer sale.
99. The cameras clearly identified the property as it lay on the counter, and the vendors who produced it.
99. Sentencedict.com is a sentence dictionary, on which you can find nice sentences for a large number of words.
100. There's also a cheese and bread counter, and a section doling out grim cold cuts.
101. Tam had managed to spill beer across the counter and most of it had gone over Morag Paterson.
102. The airline tickets can be delivered by mail, picked up through a travel agent or at airline ticket counter.
103. To cut costs, managed-care companies have squeezed prices at the pharmacy counter.
104. He regains his seat behind the mahogany counter, a holiday brochure in hand.
105. The Defendants counter argument that this infrastructure information did not constitute a record either was not allowed by the Court.
106. Striped in a tiger mask, he feinted across the counter at Melanie; she bit off an exclamation.
107. We need to take steps to counter the chronic decline in our export market.
108. Hon. Members can buy them over the counter in a chemist's shop.
109. This time you bring back a whole box of plugs to put under the counter.
110. Running counter to mainstream Republican thinking, he is calling for tariffs and new trade barriers to protect jobs.
111. You feel you have to cough(sentencedict.com), and you spew the liquid all over the counter and sink.
112. Rising slowly like an automaton, she made her way over to the counter and picked up the receiver.
113. Without waiting to lift the flap she slipped under the counter.
114. Melatonin, available over the counter, is a hormone produced inside the brain by the pineal gland.
115. The proprietor, Mr John Allan, sat at a counter carefully turning the brittle pages of what seemed an ancient book.
116. The sensing element of a scintillation counter is a fluor, a substance capable of converting radiation energy to light energy.
117. Then we were by the counter and through the glass I saw a feathered corpse, twisted to show its plumpness.
118. A freshly painted sign over the counter put closing time at nine-thirty; the clock next to it read nine-twenty-five.
119. Presumably that's to help counter the added heat-generation of the 128 per cent increase in the number of transistors.
120. The vanity of others is only counter to our taste when it is counter to our vanity. Friedrich Nietzsche 
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