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score
[ skawr, skohr ]
noun
- the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
- the total points or strokes made by one side, individual, play, game, etc.
- an act or instance of making or earning a point or points.
- Education, Psychology. the performance of an individual or sometimes of a group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol.
- a notch, scratch, or incision; a stroke or line.
- a notch or mark for keeping an account or record.
- a reckoning or account so kept; tally.
- any account showing indebtedness.
- an amount recorded as due.
- a line drawn as a boundary, the starting point of a race, a goal line, etc.
- a group or set of 20:
about a score of years ago.
- scores, a great many:
Scores of people were at the dance.
- a reason, ground, or cause:
to complain on the score of low pay.
- Informal.
- the basic facts, point of progress, etc., regarding a situation:
What's the score on Saturday's picnic?
- a successful move, remark, etc.
- Music.
- a written or printed piece of music with all the vocal and instrumental parts arranged on staves, one under the other.
- the music itself.
- the music played as background to or part of a movie, play, or television presentation.
- Slang.
- a success in finding a willing sexual partner; sexual conquest.
- a purchase or acquisition of illicit drugs, as heroin or cocaine.
- a single payoff obtained through graft by a police officer, especially from a narcotics violator.
- a successful robbery; theft.
- any success, triumph, happy acquisition, gift, or win.
- the victim of a robbery or swindle.
verb (used with object)
- to gain for addition to one's score in a game or match.
- to make a score of:
He scored 98 on the test.
- to have as a specified value in points:
Four aces score 100.
- Education, Psychology. to evaluate the responses a person has made on (a test or an examination).
- Music.
- to orchestrate.
- to write out in score.
- to compose the music for (a movie, play, television show, etc.)
- Cooking. to cut ridges or lines into (meat, fish, etc.) with shallow slashes, usually in a diamond pattern, before cooking.
- to make notches, cuts, marks, or lines in or on.
- to record or keep a record of (points, items, etc.), by or as if by notches, marks, etc.; tally; reckon (often followed by up ).
- to write down as a debt.
- to record as a debtor.
- to gain, achieve, or win:
The play scored a great success.
- Slang.
- to obtain (a drug) illicitly.
- to steal.
- to acquire; be given.
- to berate or censure:
The newspapers scored the mayor severely for the announcement.
- to crease (paper or cardboard) so that it can be folded easily and without damage.
verb (used without object)
- to make a point or points in a game or contest.
- to keep score, as of a game.
- to achieve an advantage or a success:
The new product scored with the public.
- to make notches, cuts, lines, etc.
- to run up a score or debt.
- Slang.
- to succeed in finding a willing sexual partner; have sexual intercourse.
- to purchase or obtain drugs illicitly.
- to elicit and accept a bribe.
score
/ skɔː /
noun
- an evaluative, usually numerical, record of a competitive game or match
- the total number of points made by a side or individual in a game or match
- the act of scoring, esp a point or points
- the score informal.the actual situation; the true facts
to know the score
- the result of a test or exam
- a group or set of twenty
three score years and ten
- usually pluralfoll byof a great number; lots
I have scores of things to do
- music
- the written or printed form of a composition in which the instrumental or vocal parts appear on separate staves vertically arranged on large pages ( full score ) or in a condensed version, usually for piano ( short score ) or voices and piano ( vocal score )
- the incidental music for a film or play
- the songs, music, etc, for a stage or film musical
- a mark or notch, esp one made in keeping a tally
- an account of amounts due
- an amount recorded as due
- a reason or account
the book was rejected on the score of length
- a grievance
- a line marking a division or boundary
- ( as modifier )
score line
- informal.the victim of a theft or swindle
- dancing notation indicating a dancer's moves
- over the score informal.excessive; unfair
- settle a score or pay off a score
- to avenge a wrong
- to repay a debt
verb
- to gain (a point or points) in a game or contest
- tr to make a total score of
to score twelve
- to keep a record of the score (of)
- tr to be worth (a certain amount) in a game
- tr to evaluate (a test or exam) numerically; mark
- tr to record by making notches in
- to make (cuts, lines, etc) in or on
- slang.intr to obtain something desired, esp to purchase an illegal drug
- slang.intr (of a man) to be successful in seducing a person
- tr
- to set or arrange (a piece of music) for specific instruments or voices
- to write the music for (a film, play, etc)
- to achieve (success or an advantage)
your idea really scored with the boss
- tr to criticize harshly; berate
- to accumulate or keep a record of (a debt)
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Derived Forms
- ˈscorer, noun
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Other Words From
- scoreless adjective
- scorer noun
- non·scoring adjective
- outscore verb (used with object) outscored outscoring
- re·score verb rescored rescoring
- un·scored adjective
- un·scoring adjective
- well-scored adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of score1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of score1
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Idioms and Phrases
- pay off / settle a score, to avenge a wrong; retaliate:
In the Old West they paid off a score with bullets.
More idioms and phrases containing score
see box score ; know the score ; pay off (an old score) ; settle a score .Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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