RECOUNT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does recount mean? 

• RECOUNT (noun)
  The noun RECOUNT has 1 sense:

1. an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election

  Familiarity information: RECOUNT used as a noun is very rare.

• RECOUNT (verb)
  The verb RECOUNT has 2 senses:

1. narrate or give a detailed account of

2. count again

  Familiarity information: RECOUNT used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RECOUNT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("recount" is a kind of...):

count; counting; enumeration; numeration; reckoning; tally (the act of counting; reciting numbers in ascending order)

Derivation:

recount (count again)

• RECOUNT (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they recount ... he / she / it recounts
Past simple: recounted   
Past participle: recounted   
-ing form: recounting   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Narrate or give a detailed account of

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

narrate; recite; recount; tell

Context example:

The father told a story to his child

Hypernyms (to "recount" is one way to...):

inform (impart knowledge of some fact, state of affairs, or event to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "recount"):

relate (give an account of)

crack (tell spontaneously)

yarn (tell or spin a yarn)

rhapsodise; rhapsodize (recite a rhapsody)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody

Sentence example:

They won't recount the story

Derivation:

recounting (an act of narration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Count again

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made

Hypernyms (to "recount" is one way to...):

count; enumerate; number; numerate (determine the number or amount of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

recount (an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election)

 Context examples 

He was immensely tickled by his own adventures and laughed heartily as he recounted them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And therefore, in recounting the numbers of those who have been killed in battle, I cannot but think you have said the thing which is not.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

We judged it expedient, now, to tell her all we knew; which I recounted at length.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Mycroft Holmes and Lestrade had come round by appointment after breakfast next day and Sherlock Holmes had recounted to them our proceedings of the day before.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have noted of some half-dozen cases of the kind, of which the Affair of the Second Stain and that which I am now about to recount are the two which present the strongest features of interest.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have no idea what backward sweep of memory had brought the matter fresh to his mind, or what freak had caused him to desire that I should recount it; but I hasten, before another cancelling telegram may arrive, to hunt out the notes which give me the exact details of the case and to lay the narrative before my readers.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If I could have supposed that my aunt had recounted these particulars for my especial behoof, and as a piece of confidence in me, I should have felt very much distinguished, and should have augured favourably from such a mark of her good opinion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Next morning, we had a note from Miss Smith, recounting shortly and accurately the very incidents which I had seen, but the pith of the letter lay in the postscript: I am sure that you will respect my confidence, Mr. Holmes, when I tell you that my place here has become difficult, owing to the fact that my employer has proposed marriage to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The approach of the German war caused him, however, to lay his remarkable combination of intellectual and practical activity at the disposal of the Government, with historical results which are recounted in His Last Bow.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In March of that year Dr. Moore Agar, of Harley Street, whose dramatic introduction to Holmes I may some day recount, gave positive injunctions that the famous private agent lay aside all his cases and surrender himself to complete rest if he wished to avert an absolute breakdown.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)