Old Maid vs counter

Old Maid

noun
  • A children's card game, sometimes played with a special deck, where the object of the game is for each player to find matches for all the cards in his hand, without being stuck with the single unmatchable card. 

  • The unmatchable card itself. 

counter

noun
  • A reckoner; someone who collects data by counting; an enumerator. 

  • The overhanging stern of a vessel above the waterline, below and somewhat forward of the stern proper. 

  • In a bathroom, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, which holds the washbasin. 

  • The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph. 

  • Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones. 

  • A shop tabletop on which goods are examined, weighed or measured. 

  • The breast of a horse; that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck. 

  • The piece of a shoe or a boot around the heel of the foot (above the heel of the shoe/boot). 

  • In a kitchen, a surface, often built into the wall and above a cabinet, designed to be used for food preparation. 

  • An object (now especially a small disc) used in counting or keeping count, or as a marker in games, etc. 

  • A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted 

  • Something opposite or contrary to something else. 

  • The prison attached to a city court; a compter. 

  • A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count. 

  • A class of word used along with numbers to count objects and events, typically mass nouns. Although rare and optional in English (e.g. "20 head of cattle"), they are numerous and required in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. 

  • A telltale; a contrivance attached to an engine, printing press, or other machine, for the purpose of counting the revolutions or the pulsations. 

  • A hit counter. 

  • One who counts. 

  • A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent. 

adv
  • Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction. 

  • In the wrong way; contrary to the right course. 

adj
  • Contrary or opposing 

verb
  • To contradict, oppose. 

  • To take action in response to; to respond. 

  • To return a blow while receiving one, as in boxing. 

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