User:DCDuring/English measure and count words

See: Classifier (linguistics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Measure word on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Classifiers

• head (of, eg, cattle, lettuce)
• stem (of, eg, roses)
• pair

Measure words

Unitizers

• grains (of, eg, rice, sand)
• items
• pieces
• pages
• sheets
• leaves (of, eg, lettuce)
• pairs (of, eg, shoes, glasses/spectacle, pants)

Containers

• glasses
• cups
• plates
• handfuls
• boxes
• pallets
• carloads
• containers (ie, shipping containers)

Standard measures

• feet, inches, miles, parsecs, etc (length)
• square feet, hectares (area)
• cubic feet, gallons, etc (volume)
• pounds, grams, megatons(?), etc (weight)
• amperes, volts, ohms

See also

• Category:English collective nouns