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Definition of Count off
1. Verb. Call in turn from right to left or from back to front numbers that determine some position or function.
Definition of Count off
1. Verb. (transitive) To count (a series of numbers) aloud. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Count Off
Literary usage of Count off
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Every Man His Own Teacher, Or, Lancaster's Theory of Education, Practically by John Preston (1817)
"count off the first, second, and third parcels of five: how many? ... count off
five parcels of three. Five threes make fifteen also, the same as three ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"Make a mark at this point, and then count off to the east or west ... This is
shown by F. (When the hour angle is west count off to the left, and when east ..."
3. The Koehler Method of Physical Drill by William Hale Wilbur, Herman John Koehler (1918)
"count off. At this command all except the pupil on the extreme right turn the
... If for any reason the instructor wishes to count off by threes or other ..."
4. Every Man His Own Teacher: Being an Introduction to Arithmetic, Whereby by John Preston (1834)
"count off thirty on the parcels of five : How many times five in thirty ? Answer,
six. ... count off forty-eight On the same range. How many times eight ? ..."
5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"_ To tell Off, to count off ; especially, to count off and detach, as for some
special duty : as, a squad was told off to clear the streets. ..."
6. Plane and Spherical Trigonometry: And Four-place Tables of Logarithms by William Anthony Granville (1909)
"The most convenient way to do this is to first count off from 0 along X'Xa ...
Then from the point so determined count off a number of divisions equal to ..."
7. Instrumental Calculation Or a Treatise on the Sliding Rule by T. H. McLeod (1846)
"First find the largest of the numbers to be added on either of the lines of
numbers, as directed in numeration, and from this count off towards the right ..."
8. The New American Order of Arithmetic by Dennis McCurdy (1850)
"Begin at 1000 upon the line of numbers, and count off all the units, one by one,
... count off 1000 by 3s. 4. count off 1000 by 4s. 5. count off 1000 by 5s. ..."
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