GeneD
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There are two more words I'm trying to analyse but not very successfully, to tell you the truth. Are "uncountable" and "countless" the same in meaning? Here are a few examples for "uncountable" (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/uncountable):
For "countless" (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/countless):
Could you help me understand the difference between them if there is one?
- ‘Every student of the academy, and most people in the realm, knew that this area of mountains was teeming with an uncountable number of creatures.’
- ‘The unfamiliar aspects were the lack of boxes with ‘returned merchandise’ stickers and the uncountable number of times we were asked if we needed assistance.’
- ‘Because of this, mathematicians now refer to the infinite set of real numbers as uncountable.’
- ‘They had run to the edge of the world and back again, many enemies thus in pursuit, an uncountable number of thieves and competitors perpetually on the hunt.’
For "countless" (https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/countless):
- ‘With its countless bars and clubs, the area is the hub of the town's nightlife.’
- ‘Filled with countless tiny black seeds, it looks exactly like a seed pod should.’
- ‘As countless tales have told us, it's always a bad idea to mess around with the past.’
- ‘He is a veteran of countless marathons, and we are not talking about the ordinary London kind.’
Could you help me understand the difference between them if there is one?