n. a type of small English prison controlled by a sheriff; "Prisoners in a compter were usually dissenters or debtors."

n. table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted

n. (computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)

n. a piece of leather forming the back of a shoe or boot; "a counter may be used to stiffen the material around the heel and to give support to the foot"

n. game equipment (as a piece of wood, plastic, or ivory) used for keeping a count or reserving a space in various card or board games

n. a circular parry

n. a value in programming which keeps track of anything that must be counted

n. a circuit in electronics that counts pulses and generates an output at a specified time

v. speak in response; "He countered with some very persuasive arguments"

v. act in advance of; deal with ahead of time

adv. in the opposite direction; "run counter"

adj. indicating opposition or resistance