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recount

noun
/ɹɪˈkaʊnt//ˈɹiːkaʊnt/

Etymology

From Old Northern French and Anglo-Norman recunter, variant of Old French reconter.

  1. derived from recunter

Definitions

  1. Narration, account, description, rendering

  2. To tell

    To tell; narrate; to relate in detail.

    • The old man recounted the tale of how he caught the big fish.
    • As they undressed and lay down, she asked about his leg, which had hurt for two days while he was crossing the Indian Ocean but not since. He asked about the treasure; she recounted the trip to Ning-hsia Province.

  3. To rehearse

    To rehearse; to enumerate.

    • to recount one's blessings
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A counting again, as of votes.

    2. To count again.

      • Georgia’s secretary of state announced Wednesday that the state will conduct an audit of the 2020 presidential race, recounting by hand the millions of ballots cast in the state, where President-elect Joe Biden is leading.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at recount. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at recount. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at recount

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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