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Princeton's WordNet
recountverb
an additional (usually a second) count; especially of the votes in a close election
tell, narrate, recount, reciteverb
narrate or give a detailed account of
"Tell what happened"; "The father told a story to his child"
recountverb
count again
"We had to recount all the votes after an accusation of fraud was made"
Wiktionary
recountnoun
A counting again, as of votes.
recountverb
To count or reckon again.
recountverb
To tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
To RECOUNTverb
To relate in detail; to tell distinctly.
Etymology: reconter, Fr.
Bid him recount the fore-recited practices. William Shakespeare.
How I have thought of these times,
I shall recount hereafter. William Shakespeare, Julius Cæsar.Plato in Timæo produces an Egyptian priest, who recounted to Solon out of the holy books of Egypt the story of the flood universal, which happened long before the Grecian inundation. Walter Raleigh, History of the World.
The talk of worldly affairs hindreth much, although recounted with a fair intention: we speak willingly, but seldom return to silence. Jeremy Taylor, Guide to Devotion.
Say, from these glorious seeds what harvest flows,
Recount our blessings, and compare our woes.
Wikipedia
recount
An election recount is a repeat tabulation of votes cast in an election that is used to determine the correctness of an initial count. Recounts will often take place if the initial vote tally during an election is extremely close. Election recounts will often result in changes in contest tallies. Errors can be found or introduced from human factors, such as transcription errors, or machine errors, such as misreads of paper ballots.
ChatGPT
recount
A recount refers to a detailed and often chronological narration or description of past events or experiences. It involves providing a detailed account, narrating facts or events, telling a story, or describing an incident or situation again or in a different way. In terms of election, a recount refers to the process of counting the votes again to verify the accuracy of the initial results.
Webster Dictionary
Recountverb
to count or reckon again
Recountnoun
a counting again, as of votes
Recount
to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of; to rehearse; to enumerate; as, to recount one's blessings
Etymology: [Pref. re- + count.]
Wikidata
Recount
Recount is a 2008 television film about the 2000 United States presidential election. The political drama was written by Danny Strong, directed by Jay Roach, and produced by Kevin Spacey, who also stars in the film. It premiered on HBO on May 25, 2008. The DVD was released on August 19, 2008.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Recount
rē-kownt′, v.t. to count again: to tell over again: to narrate the particulars of: to detail.—n. a second or repeated count.—ns. Recount′al, Recount′ment, relation in detail, recital. [O. Fr. reconter—re-, again, conter, to tell.]
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Anagrams for recount »
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trounce
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of recount in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of recount in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of recount in a Sentence
This is an example of York County being transparent with our voters and assuring the will of the voters is what is cast, we did a hand count in the primary of this year and the numbers of the recount matched what we got from the machine.
All of these cases attempt to bring some common sense to the administration of a recount code that was passed after 2000.
State law says that if the margin is no more than one-fifth of 1 percent of the total votes cast in that election...then there shall be an automatic hand recount.
The original count, the recount, nothing has ever been changing who gets elected, this is an exercise of finding what caused the error, but the four winners have all -- from day one -- remained to be the same four winners. This has never threatened that. And, again, if there would have been a widespread fraud, which would have been uncovered( in) this, it would have come out. There was none.
It's now clear to me with the recount largely complete, that we have a nominee. And today I called Mehmet Oz to congratulate him on his victory. And I told him what I always said to you, that I will do my part to try to unite Republicans and Pennsylvanians behind his candidacy, behind his nomination for the Senate. It is so important for Pennsylvania, so important that we beat John Fetterman.
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- berichten, erzählenGerman
- [[laskea]] [[uudestaan]], tarkistuslaskenta, tilittää, [[ketoa, kertoaFinnish
- recompter, raconterFrench
- ath-chunntadhScottish Gaelic
- aachoearroo, aachoont, aachoonteyManx
- 物語る, 詳述, 再集計Japanese
- traloquorLatin
- recontar, recontagemPortuguese
- пересчёт, изложить, рассказать, излагать, изложение, пересчитать, пересказать, рассказ, пересчитывать, пересказывать, рассказывать, пересказRussian
- دوبارہ گنتیUrdu
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