Agree vs. Counter — What's the Difference?

To share an opinion or feeling; be in accord

A flat surface on which money is counted, business is transacted, or food is prepared or served.

To express consent; concur

(Games)A piece, as of wood or ivory, used for keeping a count or a place.

To accept or support a policy or program

An imitation coin; a token.

To come to an understanding or agreement, as by negotiating

A piece of money.

To be compatible or consistent

One who counts.

To be suitable, appropriate, pleasing, or healthful

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

(Grammar) To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.

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

To share an opinion about (something)

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

To grant or concede

(programming) A variable, memory location, etc. whose contents are incremented to keep a count.

(intransitive) To be in harmony about an opinion, statement, or action; to have a consistent idea between two or more people.

(Internet) A hit counter.

To give assent; to accede

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

To yield assent to; to approve.

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

(intransitive) To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.

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

(intransitive) To resemble; to coincide; to correspond.

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

To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well.

(curling) Any stone lying closer to the center than any of the opponent's stones.

To correspond to (another word) in a grammatical category, such as gender, number, case, or person.

(historical) The prison attached to a city court; a compter.

To consent to a contract or to an element of a contract.

(grammar) 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.

To harmonize in opinion, statement, or action; to be in unison or concord; to be or become united or consistent; to concur; as, all parties agree in the expediency of the law.

Something opposite or contrary to something else.

To yield assent; to accede; - followed by to; as, to agree to an offer, or to opinion.

(martial arts) A proactive defensive hold or move in reaction to a hold or move by one's opponent.

To make a stipulation by way of settling differences or determining a price; to exchange promises; to come to terms or to a common resolve; to promise.

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

To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exactly.

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

To suit or be adapted in its effects; to do well; as, the same food does not agree with every constitution.

(music) contra Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to countertenor.

To correspond in gender, number, case, or person.

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

To make harmonious; to reconcile or make friends.

(typography) The enclosed or partly closed negative space of a glyph.

To admit, or come to one mind concerning; to settle; to arrange; as, to agree the fact; to agree differences.

(obsolete) An encounter.

Be in accord; be in agreement;

Contrary, in opposition; in an opposite direction.

Consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something;

In the wrong way; contrary to the right course.

Be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics;

To contradict, oppose.

Go together;

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

Show grammatical agreement;

To take action in response to; to respond.

Be agreeable or suitable;

To encounter.

Achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose;

Contrary or opposing

One who counts, or reckons up; a calculator; a reckoner.

A piece of metal, ivory, wood, or bone, used in reckoning, in keeping account of games, etc.

Money; coin; - used in contempt.

A prison; either of two prisons formerly in London.

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

A table or board on which money is counted and over which business is transacted; a long, narrow table or bench, on which goods are laid for examination by purchasers, or on which they are weighed or measured.

The after part of a vessel's body, from the water line to the stern, - below and somewhat forward of the stern proper.

Same as Contra. Formerly used to designate any under part which served for contrast to a principal part, but now used as equivalent to counter tenor.

The breast, or that part of a horse between the shoulders and under the neck.

The back leather or heel part of a boot.

An encounter.

Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; - used chiefly with run or go.

In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.

At or against the front or face.

Contrary; opposite; contrasted; opposed; adverse; antagonistic; as, a counter current; a counter revolution; a counter poison; a counter agent; counter fugue.

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

Table consisting of a horizontal surface over which business is transacted

Game equipment used in various card or board games

A calculator that keeps a record of the number of times something happens

A piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers

A person who counts things

A quick reply to a question or remark (especially a witty or critical one);

(computer science) a register whose contents go through a regular series of states (usually states indicating consecutive integers)

The piece of leather that fits the heel

A piece of leather forming the back of a shoe

A return punch (especially by a boxer)

Speak in response;

Act in advance of; deal with ahead of time

Indicating opposition or resistance

In the opposite direction;