Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A usually numerical record of a competitive event.
- noun The total number of points made by each competitor or side in a contest, either final or at a given stage.
- noun The number of points attributed to a competitor or team.
- noun A result, usually expressed numerically, of a test or examination.
- noun An amount due; a debt.
- noun A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction.
- noun A ground; a reason.
- noun A group of 20 items.
- noun Large numbers.
- noun The notation of a musical work.
- noun The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.
- noun The music written for a film or a play.
- noun The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain.
- noun The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
- noun A successful robbery.
- noun An instance of having sexual intercourse with a desired partner.
- noun A notch or incision, especially one that is made to keep a tally.
- intransitive verb To achieve or accomplish.
- intransitive verb To achieve or gain in a game or contest.
- intransitive verb To count or be worth as points.
- intransitive verb To keep a written record of the score or events of (a game or contest).
- intransitive verb Baseball To cause (a base runner) to cross home plate, especially by getting a hit.
- intransitive verb To evaluate and assign a grade to.
- intransitive verb To orchestrate (a piece of music).
- intransitive verb To arrange for a specific instrument.
- intransitive verb To criticize cuttingly; berate.
- intransitive verb To succeed in acquiring.
- intransitive verb To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug).
- intransitive verb To mark (a piece of paper or wood, for example) with lines or notches, especially for the purpose of keeping a record.
- intransitive verb To cancel or eliminate by superimposing lines.
- intransitive verb To mark the surface of (meat, for example) with usually parallel cuts.
- intransitive verb To make a point or points in a game or contest.
- intransitive verb To record the score or progress of a game or contest.
- intransitive verb To achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup.
- intransitive verb To succeed in having sexual relations with a desired partner.
- intransitive verb To succeed in buying or obtaining an illicit drug.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A Middle English form of
scour . - noun In archery, a record of all the shots of an archer; a record of all the shots of all the archers in a shooting-match; the sum of all the units won by an archer in a round. See
round , 7 . - In lumbering, to chip off the side of a log to a line, preparatory to facing it by hewing.
- Specifically, in archery, to keep a record of all the shots of one or several archers; make an entry on such a record. By the present method of scoring, hits in the gold, red, blue, black, and white are scored 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1 respectively. See
target , 2.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Here is hoping for an improvement in score from a ‘D’ to at least a ‘B’ (or ‘B+’) when you next put ‘pen to paper’.
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The piano and violin score is haunting and reminiscent of The Nines.
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To be honest Madge is pretty awful in almost every movie role she chooses Evita was a musical performance above anything else, but Die Another Day bears special mention for both her equally dogawful contribution to the title score, and hopelessly flimsy cameo appearance as a lesbian fencing instructor who jabs "I don't like cockfights".
The Razzies: Yup, Basic Instinct 2 Is A Big Bag Of Toss 2008
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"It doesn't matter what the score is after 3, 4, 5, there's still a lot of game left," Jeter said.
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Lot of dust flying but in the end the score is the same.
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And the score is a hodgepodge of dreamy ballads, folk and patriotic song parodies and dense bits of sprechstimme, or speak-singing.
Solas Nua's first musical, the loopy 'Improbable Frequency' Peter Marks 2010
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Personally, I really think that this score is awesome.
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"It doesn't matter what the score is after 3, 4, 5, there's still a lot of game left," Jeter said.
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The facetious response would have involved the word "score".
Steve Kean blind to the only stat that matters to misfiring Blackburn 2011
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If this score is as good – or, dare I say, better – than the NM score, I shall be one happy girl!
claironeill commented on the word score
Twenty pound note (Belfast)
July 26, 2011
karpkatamala commented on the word score
When he wasn’t conducting studies on the genetic predisposition for addictive behavior, he was plugging away on a side project that would become his manifesto: Maps of Meaning: The Architecture of Belief. He worked on that manuscript, he says, three hours a day for 15 years, rewriting it scores of times.
January 18, 2018