Sentence examples for counter means from inspiring English sources

As every patient knows, the phrase "over the counter" means medicine for headaches, colds and the like.

Operating the student dust counter means keeping track of any grain of space dust that comes in contact with the instrument during the four billion-mile journey to the unexplored dwarf planet and beyond.

Keeping a box of cereal out on the kitchen counter means you are likely to weigh more than people who keep their cereal boxes tided away, according to a new study.

The very act of cooking occupies hands and makes them dirty, so an Echo on your counter means cranking up the volume on that dinner hour playlist or moving to the next step of a recipe app no longer means grease or cookie dough on your iPad.

Does plunking down your VISA at the MAC counter mean you've forfeited your feminist card?

Hotels require them to check in at separate counters meant for those suspected of having SARS, he said.

And the rise of the supermarkets, with their own wholesaling operations and specialist butchering counters, meant that the meat trade was no longer the cash cow it had been in the middle of the century.

YouTube now uses a 64-bit integer for its video counter, which means videos have a maximum viewer count of 9.22 quintillion.

So if you see a roach scurrying across a sunny restaurant counter, it means there are a whole lot more where he came from.

"We need a broader perspective on what counter-radicalisation means.

Diluting a dye, she countered, simply means wasting more water: much of the answer in solving the waste involved in dyeing textiles lies in a factory's mechanisation.