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Counter-

ˈkaʊntər-
Portrait of Carolina under a bar counter. A fan in her right hand. Top left and top right a weapon. Six lines of Dutch text in a box.
Portrait of Carolina under a bar counter. A fan in her right hand. Top left and top right a weapon. Six lines of Dutch text in a box.
Illustrations
On the reverse you can see counter-printing of the text in red ink on the original title page.
On the reverse you can see counter-printing of the text in red ink on the original title page.
Farmer behind a counter with a pitcher in one hand and a glass in the other.
Farmer behind a counter with a pitcher in one hand and a glass in the other.
Interior of a shop (?) With three women and a man sitting behind the counter. From left to right: woman with a cat on her lap. Woman with feet on a footstool, roll of paper in hand. She is wearing a dress with cuffs and sabot, trimmed at the hem with a gathered strip. A necklace with a cross around the neck. The man is wearing a frak, vest and jabot. Woman dressed in a frock trimmed with a gathered strip. A necklace with a cross around the neck. The women wear bonnets on top of their bobbed hair.
Interior of a shop (?) With three women and a man sitting behind the counter. From left to right: woman with a cat on her lap. Woman with feet on a footstool, roll of paper in hand. She is wearing a dress with cuffs and sabot, trimmed at the hem with a gathered strip. A necklace with a cross around the neck. The man is wearing a frak, vest and jabot. Woman dressed in a frock trimmed with a gathered strip. A necklace with a cross around the neck. The women wear bonnets on top of their bobbed hair.
Brass medal. Front: under year: cloth merchant, standing behind the counter in his shop, measures with a cubit of cloth; left and right: man and woman; in between: number 133 inside circle. Reverse: crowned hat with feather; around it: glasses, guy, comb, brush, pot, knitting yarn, three rolls and a pack inside inscription
Brass medal. Front: under year: cloth merchant, standing behind the counter in his shop, measures with a cubit of cloth; left and right: man and woman; in between: number 133 inside circle. Reverse: crowned hat with feather; around it: glasses, guy, comb, brush, pot, knitting yarn, three rolls and a pack inside inscription
Political allegory of the victory of the counter-protesters thanks to the intervention of Prince Maurits, 1618. The performance shows an interior with large scales. In the presence of Gomarus, Arminius, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and others, the arguments of the counter-protesters and the remonstrants are weighed against each other. Maurits tipped the balance in favor of the counter-protesters by putting his sword on the scales. In the background, through a window, Maurits on the Neude in Utrecht has thrown away the host. Below the performance a verse from Vondel. In this later edition of the print, a strip of paper with two extra lines with the name E. Israels is stuck on at the end of the caption.
Political allegory of the victory of the counter-protesters thanks to the intervention of Prince Maurits, 1618. The performance shows an interior with large scales. In the presence of Gomarus, Arminius, Johan van Oldenbarnevelt and others, the arguments of the counter-protesters and the remonstrants are weighed against each other. Maurits tipped the balance in favor of the counter-protesters by putting his sword on the scales. In the background, through a window, Maurits on the Neude in Utrecht has thrown away the host. Below the performance a verse from Vondel. In this later edition of the print, a strip of paper with two extra lines with the name E. Israels is stuck on at the end of the caption.
Two women and a girl buy a ticket at the counter of a train station, dressed in travel costumes. According to the caption it is the dress of Maison Degon-Pointude. Below are a few lines of advertising text for different products. Print from the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Demoiselles (1841-1902).
Two women and a girl buy a ticket at the counter of a train station, dressed in travel costumes. According to the caption it is the dress of Maison Degon-Pointude. Below are a few lines of advertising text for different products. Print from the fashion magazine Journal des Dames et des Demoiselles (1841-1902).
Portrait of Juliana under a counter with edge lettering. In the bottom margin her name and titles.
Portrait of Juliana under a counter with edge lettering. In the bottom margin her name and titles.
Portrait of Johannes Bogerman, counter-protestant minister and chairman of the national synod in Dordrecht (1618-1619). Below the portrait a poem in Dutch.
Portrait of Johannes Bogerman, counter-protestant minister and chairman of the national synod in Dordrecht (1618-1619). Below the portrait a poem in Dutch.
Quotations
Thomas H. Huxley
Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.
Thomas H. Huxley
Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always.
Guy Debord
For every force, there is a counter force. For every negative there is a positive. For every action there is a reaction. For every cause there is an effect.
Grace Speare
Ignazio Silone
Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.
Ignazio Silone
In comradeship is danger countered best.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Denis Diderot
The decisions of law courts should never be printed: in the long run, they form a counter authority to the law.
Denis Diderot
Idioms

Bean counter - A bean counter is an accountant.

Over the counter - Medicines and drugs that can be sold without a doctor's prescription are sold over the counter.

Usage in the news

In Manhattan real estate, 36 inches of kitchen counter space trumps an elevator, a panel of judges decided. nydailynews.com

The Mount Washington Farm Service Agency would like to remind area farm owner and operators that the deadline for the Direct and Counter Cyclical Program contracts on grain is June 1. spencermagnet.com

Cynosure Inc has received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for an over-the-counter device, developed with Unilever, to treat facial wrinkles. chaindrugreview.com

Paul Mendez, left, and Mark Fennel took a stand against illegal immigration while a counter-protest took place across the street. ashingtonpost.com

Good Points for Romney to Counter Obama's "Same Failed Policies" Line. spectator.org

Lunchtime customers pack the counter four deep in the Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery on South Fourth Avenue, where the specials of the day include oxtail, curried goat and cow foot. nytimes.com

Last year "Spice," a synthetic marijuana-like drug, was in the news for its appeal to teens who could buy it over the counter or online. 2.timesdispatch.com

I've got art in there on the counter, too. dwell.com

FDA issues warning for over-the-counter diarrhea drug. foxnews.com

FDA issues warning over-the-counter diarrhea drug. timesrecordnews.com

One of 206 Assembly line units (small axle bearings w / tapered housing ends),NOT SERVICE PACKAGE Or OVER THE COUNTER ASSEMBLY. hemmings.com

An online Disability Counter created by the not-for-profit Council for Disability Awareness (CDA) illustrates graphically the growing number of working-age Americans who experience a disabling illness or injury lasting for 30 days or longer. shrm.org

Dean Chambers launched the website UnskewedPolls.com in the final months of the election to counter what he saw as a Democratic bias in most presidential polls. motherjones.com

If you have a favorite grocery store food counter, please suggest it in the comment stream below. nola.com

Worker education counters Sanford displacement . marshalltribune.com

Usage in scientific papers

Thus, any sequence ~c with large diversity can be used instead of a counter.
Guaranteeing the diversity of number generators

Assume further that the generator C is counter-based with an invertible output function gC , and that the output function gB of B is invertible as well.
Guaranteeing the diversity of number generators

That is, the counter is incremented and added to the state value only once every two iterations of the generator.
Guaranteeing the diversity of number generators

All of the suggested modes require a counter, but in most of the applications a counter either already exists or is easy to maintain.
Guaranteeing the diversity of number generators

Counter prototype and experimental setup are described, and the results of measurements reported and compared with simulation results.
Experimental study of a proximity focusing Cherenkov counter prototype for the AMS experiment

Usage in literature

She came round to the front of the counter with gleaming eyes and clenched fists. "A Cigarette-Maker's Romance" by F. Marion Crawford

The glass he set on the counter, putting down a coin with it. "Wolf Breed" by Jackson Gregory

Bridges went up to the narrow, shelf-like counter, looked at the register and asked Tamplin a question. "Danger Signals" by John A. Hill and Jasper Ewing Brady

They had learned her arts of war, and their counters were studied, and the outcome of fierce experience. "The Triumph of John Kars" by Ridgwell Cullum

On to Gaba Tepe just in time to see the opening, the climax and the end of the dreaded Turkish counter attack. "Gallipoli Diary, Volume I" by Ian Hamilton

The store-keeper himself was fast asleep in a chair tilted against the counter. "Confessions of Boyhood" by John Albee

Fifty-nine desks are placed on the counter for the use of the fifty-nine banks represented in the Association. "Lights and Shadows of New York Life" by James D. McCabe

However, the enemy elected to employ the whole of his available reserves in an immediate counter-attack. "With the British Army in The Holy Land" by Henry Osmond Lock

Two counter-attacks were repelled, and on the 22nd April the 14th D.L.I. "A Short History of the 6th Division"

This was done and two strong enemy counter attacks repulsed. "The Seventeenth Highland Light Infantry (Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Battalion)" by Various

Usage in poetry
I would in moments, Time's poor slave,
Your millioned worth make shine;
You lie beyond the shot of praise,
Or slander's counter-mine.
Far from the roof of night
And iron these encounter;
In the gigantic hall
As the severing light
Menaces, human, small,
These hands exchange their counters.
In halls where Luxury lies at ease,
And Mammon keeps his state,
Where flatterers fawn and menials crouch,
The dreamer, startled from his couch,
Wrings a few counters from his pouch,
And murmurs faintly WAIT!
And he the man, whom Nature selfe had made
To mock her selfe, and Truth to imitate,
With kindly counter vnder Mimick shade,
Our pleasant Willy, ah is dead of late:
With whom all ioy and iolly meriment
Is also deaded, and in dolour drent.
High, high and sure . . . and then the counter-thrust:
‘Why do you love me? Will you always love me?
But I am like the grass, I can not love you.'
Or, ‘Love, and I love and love you,
And hate your mind, not you, your soul, your hands.'
It needed Pythagoras to see life playing with counters on the living back
Of the baby tortoise;
Life establishing the first eternal mathematical tablet,
Not in stone, like the Judean Lord, or bronze, but in life-clouded, life-rosy tortoise shell.