the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
2.
the total points or strokes made by one side, individual, play, game, etc.
3.
an act or instance of making or earning a point or points.
4.
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.
5.
a notch, scratch, or incision; a stroke or line.
6.
a notch or mark for keeping an account or record.
7.
a reckoning or account so kept; tally.
8.
any account showing indebtedness.
9.
an amount recorded as due.
10.
a line drawn as a boundary, the starting point of a race, a goal line, etc.
11.
a group or set of 20: about a score of years ago.
12.
scores, a great many: Scores of people were at the dance.
13.
a reason, ground, or cause: to complain on the score of low pay.
14.
Informal.
a.
the basic facts, point of progress, etc., regarding a situation: What's the score on Saturday's picnic?
b.
a successful move, remark, etc.
15.
Music.
a.
a written or printed piece of music with all the vocal and instrumental parts arranged on staves, one under the other.
b.
the music itself.
c.
the music played as background to or part of a movie, play, or television presentation.
16.
Slang.
a.
a success in finding a willing sexual partner; sexual conquest.
b.
a purchase or acquisition of illicit drugs, as heroin or cocaine.
c.
a single payoff obtained through graft by a police officer, esp. from a narcotics violator.
d.
a successful robbery; theft.
e.
any success, triumph, happy acquisition, gift, or win.
f.
the victim of a robbery or swindle.
–verb (used with object)
17.
to gain for addition to one's score in a game or match.
18.
to make a score of: He scored 98 on the test.
19.
to have as a specified value in points: Four aces score 100.
20.
Education,Psychology. to evaluate the responses a person has made on (a test or an examination).
21.
Music.
a.
to orchestrate.
b.
to write out in score.
c.
to compose the music for (a movie, play, television show, etc.)
22.
Cookery. to cut ridges or lines into (meat, fish, etc.) with shallow slashes, usually in a diamond pattern, before cooking.
23.
to make notches, cuts, marks, or lines in or on.
24.
to record or keep a record of (points, items, etc.), by or as if by notches, marks, etc.; tally; reckon (often fol. by up).
25.
to write down as a debt.
26.
to record as a debtor.
27.
to gain, achieve, or win: The play scored a great success.
28.
Slang.
a.
to obtain (a drug) illicitly.
b.
to steal.
c.
to acquire; be given.
29.
to berate or censure: The newspapers scored the mayor severely for the announcement.
30.
to crease (paper or cardboard) so that it can be folded easily and without damage.
–verb (used without object)
31.
to make a point or points in a game or contest.
32.
to keep score, as of a game.
33.
to achieve an advantage or a success: The new product scored with the public.
34.
to make notches, cuts, lines, etc.
35.
to run up a score or debt.
36.
Slang.
a.
to succeed in finding a willing sexual partner; have coitus.
b.
to purchase or obtain drugs illicitly.
c.
to elicit and accept a bribe.
—Idiom
37.
pay off or settle a score, to avenge a wrong; retaliate: In the Old West they paid off a score with bullets.
[Origin: bef. 1100; (n.) ME; late OE scora, score (pl.; sing. *scoru) group of twenty (appar. orig. notch) < ON skor notch; (v.) ME scoren to incise, mark with lines, tally debts < ON skora to notch, count by tallies; later v. senses deriv. of the n.; akin to shear]
A notch or incision, especially one that is made to keep a tally.
Sports & Games
A usually numerical record of a competitive event: keeping score.
The total number of points made by each competitor or side in a contest, either final or at a given stage: The score stood tied in the bottom of the ninth inning.
The number of points attributed to a competitor or team.
An amount due; a debt.
A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction: settle an old score.
The notation of a musical work.
The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.
The music written for a film or a play.
The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain: "He had dropped out of school and gone for that quick dollar, that big score"(Peter Goldman).
The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
A successful robbery.
A sexual conquest.
A result, usually expressed numerically, of a test or examination.
An amount due; a debt.
A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction: settle an old score.
The notation of a musical work.
The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.
The music written for a film or a play.
The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain: "He had dropped out of school and gone for that quick dollar, that big score"(Peter Goldman).
The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
A successful robbery.
A sexual conquest.
A ground; a reason.
A group of 20 items.
scores Large numbers: Scores of people attended the rally.
Music
The notation of a musical work.
The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.
The music written for a film or a play.
The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain: "He had dropped out of school and gone for that quick dollar, that big score"(Peter Goldman).
The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
A successful robbery.
A sexual conquest.
Slang
The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain: "He had dropped out of school and gone for that quick dollar, that big score"(Peter Goldman).
The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
A successful robbery.
A sexual conquest.
v.
scored, scor·ing, scores
v.
tr.
To mark with lines or notches, especially for the purpose of keeping a record.
To cancel or eliminate by or as if by superimposing lines.
To mark the surface of (meat, for example) with usually parallel cuts.
Sports & Games
To gain (a point) in a game or contest.
To count or be worth as points: A basket scores two points.
To keep a written record of the score or events of (a game or contest).
Baseball To cause (a base runner) to cross home plate, especially by getting a hit: scored both runners with a double.
To orchestrate.
To arrange for a specific instrument.
To succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.
To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug): "Aging punks try to impress her with tales of . . . the different drugs they've scored"(Art Jahnke).
To achieve; win.
To evaluate and assign a grade to.
Music
To orchestrate.
To arrange for a specific instrument.
To succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.
To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug): "Aging punks try to impress her with tales of . . . the different drugs they've scored"(Art Jahnke).
To criticize cuttingly; berate.
Slang
To succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.
To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug): "Aging punks try to impress her with tales of . . . the different drugs they've scored"(Art Jahnke).
v.
intr.
Sports & Games
To make a point in a game or contest.
To keep the score of a game or contest.
To achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup: "They . . . score in places like the bond market"(Mike Barnicle).
To succeed in seducing someone sexually.
To succeed in buying or obtaining an illicit drug.
Slang
To achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup: "They . . . score in places like the bond market"(Mike Barnicle).
To succeed in seducing someone sexually.
To succeed in buying or obtaining an illicit drug.
[Middle English, from Old English scoru, twenty, from Old Norse skor; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.]
late O.E. scoru "twenty," from O.N. skor "mark, tally," also, in Icelandic, "twenty," from P.Gmc. *skura-, from PIE base *(s)ker- "to cut" (cf. O.E. sceran; see shear). The connecting notion is perhaps counting large numbers (of sheep, etc.) with a notch in a stick for each 20. This counting notion is the origin of the modern sense in sports (1742, originally in whist). In O.Fr., "twenty" (vint) or a multiple of it could be used as a base, e.g. vint et doze ("32"), dous vinz et diz ("50"). Meaning "printed piece of music" first recorded 1701, from the practice of connecting related staves by scores of lines. The verb meaning "to cut with incisions or notches" is attested from c.1400; the slang sense "achieve intercourse" first recorded 1960.
a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance); "she made good marks in algebra"; "grade A milk"; "what was your score on your homework?" [syn: mark]
2.
a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages; "he studied the score of the sonata"
3.
a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to 0"
4.
a set of twenty members; "a score were sent out but only one returned"
5.
grounds; "don't do it on my account"; "the paper was rejected on account of its length"; "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful"
6.
the facts about an actual situation; "he didn't know the score"
7.
an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar); "add it to my score and I'll settle later"
8.
a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
9.
a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge]
10.
the act of scoring in a game or sport; "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play"
11.
a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse; "calling his seduction of the girl a 'score' was a typical example of male slang" [syn: sexual conquest]
verb
1.
gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"
2.
make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before firing it"
3.
make underscoring marks
4.
write a musical score for
5.
induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally" [syn: seduce]
6.
get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance; "She scored high on the SAT"; "He scored a 200"
7.
assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation; "grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework" [syn: grade]
the number of points, goals etc gained in a game, competition etc Example: The cricket score is 59 for 3.
Arabic:
عَدَد الأهْداف
Chinese (Simplified):
（比赛中）得分记录
Chinese (Traditional):
(比賽中)得分記錄
Czech:
skóre, stav
Danish:
resultat; stilling
Dutch:
stand
Estonian:
seis, tulemus
Finnish:
pelitilanne
French:
score
German:
die Punktzahl
Greek:
βαθμολογία, σκορ
Hungarian:
pont(szám); gól(arány); (játék)állás
Icelandic:
stigafjöldi; staða í leik
Indonesian:
skor
Italian:
punteggio, risultato
Japanese:
得点
Latvian:
rezultāts (sportā u.tml.)
Lithuanian:
rezultatas
Norwegian:
skåre, testresultat, poengtall
Polish:
wynik
Portuguese (Brazil):
escore, contagem
Portuguese (Portugal):
resultado
Romanian:
scor
Russian:
счёт
Slovak:
skóre, stav
Slovenian:
rezultat
Spanish:
tanteo, resultado
Swedish:
ställning
Turkish:
oyun sonucu
score2[skoː]noun
a written piece of music showing all the parts for instruments and voices Example: the score of an opera
Arabic:
قِطْعَة موسيقِيَّه تُظْهِر كُل الأصوات والآلات
Chinese (Simplified):
（音乐的）总谱
Chinese (Traditional):
(音樂的)總譜
Czech:
partitura
Danish:
partitur
Dutch:
partituur
Estonian:
partituur
French:
partition
German:
die Partitur
Greek:
παρτιτούρα
Hungarian:
partitúra
Icelandic:
raddskrá, partítúr
Indonesian:
naskah musik
Italian:
partitura
Japanese:
楽譜
Latvian:
partitūra
Lithuanian:
partitûra
Norwegian:
partitur
Polish:
partytura
Portuguese (Brazil):
partitura
Portuguese (Portugal):
partitura
Romanian:
partitură
Russian:
партитура
Slovak:
partitúra
Slovenian:
partitura
Spanish:
partitura
Swedish:
partitur
Turkish:
tüm nota, partisyon
score3[skoː]noun
a set or group of twenty Example: There was barely a score of people there.
Arabic:
عِشْرون
Chinese (Simplified):
二十
Chinese (Traditional):
二十
Czech:
dvacítka
Danish:
snes
Dutch:
twintig
Estonian:
kakskümmend
French:
vingtaine
German:
zwanzig
Greek:
εικοσάδα
Hungarian:
húsz (20)
Icelandic:
tveir tugir
Indonesian:
sekelompok orang yang terdiri dari dua puluh
Italian:
ventina
Japanese:
20
Latvian:
divdesmit
Lithuanian:
dvideðimt
Norwegian:
snes
Polish:
dwadzieścia
Portuguese (Brazil):
grupo de vinte
Portuguese (Portugal):
vintena
Romanian:
grup de 20
Russian:
два десятка
Slovak:
dvadsať
Slovenian:
dvajseterica
Spanish:
veinte, veintena
Swedish:
tjog
Turkish:
yirmi, yirmilik grup
score1[skoː]verb
to gain (goals etc) in a game etc Example: He scored two goals before half-time.
Arabic:
يُسَجِّل هَدَفا
Chinese (Simplified):
（比赛）得分
Chinese (Traditional):
(比賽)得分
Czech:
zaznamenat
Danish:
score
Dutch:
scoren
Estonian:
saama, saavutama
Finnish:
tehdä maali, saada pisteitä
French:
marquer
German:
erzielen
Greek:
σημειώνω, σκοράρω
Hungarian:
lő (gólt); elér (pontot)
Icelandic:
skora, *gera mark
Indonesian:
mencetak gol
Italian:
segnare
Japanese:
得点する
Korean:
(경기에서) …을 득점하다
Latvian:
gūt vārtus, *punktus
Lithuanian:
ámuðti (ávartá), laimëti
Norwegian:
få mål, *poeng, skåre
Polish:
zdobywać punkty
Portuguese (Brazil):
marcar
Portuguese (Portugal):
marcar
Romanian:
a marca
Russian:
забить гол
Slovak:
zaznamenať
Slovenian:
doseči
Spanish:
marcar, hacer, meter
Swedish:
göra mål, ta (få, göra) poäng
Turkish:
sayı yapmak
score2[skoː]verb
(sometimes withofforout) to remove (eg a name) from eg a list by putting a line through it Example: Please could you score my name off (the list)?; Is that word meant to be scored out?
Arabic:
يَمْحو، يَحْذِف
Chinese (Simplified):
划掉
Chinese (Traditional):
劃掉
Czech:
přeškrtnout, vyškrtnout
Danish:
fjerne
Dutch:
doorstrepen
Estonian:
läbi kriipsutama
Finnish:
pyyhkiä yli
French:
rayer
German:
streichen
Greek:
διαγράφω
Hungarian:
elér, szerez (pontot)
Icelandic:
strika út
Indonesian:
mencoret
Italian:
eliminare, cancellare
Japanese:
消す
Korean:
선을 그어 지우다
Latvian:
izsvītrot; nosvītrot
Lithuanian:
iðbraukti
Norwegian:
stryke ut, *over
Polish:
wykreślić, przekreślić
Portuguese (Brazil):
eliminar
Portuguese (Portugal):
riscar
Romanian:
a şterge
Russian:
вычёркивать
Slovak:
preškrtnúť, vyškrtnúť
Slovenian:
prečrtati
Spanish:
eliminar
Swedish:
stryka
Turkish:
çıkarmak
score3[skoː]verb
to keep score Example: Will you score for us, please?
Score\, v. i. 1. To keep the score in a game; to act as scorer. 2. To make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally. 3. To run up a score, or account of dues.
Point\, n. [F. point, and probably also pointe, L. punctum, puncta, fr. pungere, punctum, to prick. See Pungent, and cf. Puncto, Puncture.]1. That which pricks or pierces; the sharp end of anything, esp. the sharp end of a piercing instrument, as a needle or a pin. 2. An instrument which pricks or pierces, as a sort of needle used by engravers, etchers, lace workers, and others; also, a pointed cutting tool, as a stone cutter's point; -- called also pointer. 3. Anything which tapers to a sharp, well-defined termination. Specifically: A small promontory or cape; a tract of land extending into the water beyond the common shore line. 4. The mark made by the end of a sharp, piercing instrument, as a needle; a prick. 5. An indefinitely small space; a mere spot indicated or supposed. Specifically: (Geom.) That which has neither parts nor magnitude; that which has position, but has neither length, breadth, nor thickness, -- sometimes conceived of as the limit of a line; that by the motion of which a line is conceived to be produced. 6. An indivisible portion of time; a moment; an instant; hence, the verge. When time's first point begun Made he all souls. --Sir J. Davies. 7. A mark of punctuation; a character used to mark the divisions of a composition, or the pauses to be observed in reading, or to point off groups of figures, etc.; a stop, as a comma, a semicolon, and esp. a period; hence, figuratively, an end, or conclusion. And there a point, for ended is my tale. --Chaucer. Commas and points they set exactly right. --Pope. 8. Whatever serves to mark progress, rank, or relative position, or to indicate a transition from one state or position to another, degree; step; stage; hence, position or condition attained; as, a point of elevation, or of depression; the stock fell off five points; he won by tenpoints. "A point of precedence." --Selden. "Creeping on from point to point." --Tennyson. A lord full fat and in good point. --Chaucer. 9. That which arrests attention, or indicates qualities or character; a salient feature; a characteristic; a peculiarity; hence, a particular; an item; a detail; as, the good or bad points of a man, a horse, a book, a story, etc. He told him, point for point, in short and plain. --Chaucer. In point of religion and in point of honor. --Bacon. Shalt thou dispute With Him the points of liberty ? --Milton. 10. Hence, the most prominent or important feature, as of an argument, discourse, etc.; the essential matter; esp., the proposition to be established; as, the point of an anecdote. "Here lies the point." --Shak. They will hardly prove his point. --Arbuthnot. 11. A small matter; a trifle; a least consideration; a punctilio. This fellow doth not stand upon points. --Shak. [He] cared not for God or man a point. --Spenser. 12. (Mus.) A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time; as: (a) (Anc. Mus.) A dot or mark distinguishing or characterizing certain tones or styles; as, points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.; hence, a note; a tune. "Sound the trumpet -- not a levant, or a flourish, but a point of war." --Sir W. Scott. (b) (Mod. Mus.) A dot placed at the right hand of a note, to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half, as to make a whole note equal to three half notes, a half note equal to three quarter notes. 13. (Astron.) A fixed conventional place for reference, or zero of reckoning, in the heavens, usually the intersection of two or more great circles of the sphere, and named specifically in each case according to the position intended; as, the equinoctial points; the solstitial points; the nodal points; vertical points, etc. See Equinoctial Nodal. 14. (Her.) One of the several different parts of the escutcheon. See Escutcheon. 15. (Naut.) (a) One of the points of the compass (see Points of the compass, below); also, the difference between two points of the compass; as, to fall off a point. (b) A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails. See Reef point, under Reef. 16. (Anc. Costume) A a string or lace used to tie together certain parts of the dress. --Sir W. Scott. 17. Lace wrought the needle; as, point de Venise; Brussels point. See Point lace, below. 18. pl. (Railways) A switch. [Eng.] 19. An item of private information; a hint; a tip; a pointer. [Cant, U. S.] 20. (Cricket) A fielder who is stationed on the off side, about twelve or fifteen yards from, and a little in advance of, the batsman. 21. The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game; as, the dog came to a point. See Pointer. 22. (Type Making) A standard unit of measure for the size of type bodies, being one twelfth of the thickness of pica type. See Point system of type, under Type. 23. A tyne or snag of an antler. 24. One of the spaces on a backgammon board. 25. (Fencing) A movement executed with the saber or foil; as, tierce point. Note: The word point is a general term, much used in the sciences, particularly in mathematics, mechanics, perspective, and physics, but generally either in the geometrical sense, or in that of degree, or condition of change, and with some accompanying descriptive or qualifying term, under which, in the vocabulary, the specific uses are explained; as, boiling point, carbon point, dry point, freezing point, melting point, vanishing point, etc. At all points, in every particular, completely; perfectly. --Shak. At point, In point, At, In, or On, the point, as near as can be; on the verge; about (see About, prep., 6); as, at the point of death; he was on the point of speaking. "In point to fall down." --Chaucer. "Caius Sidius Geta, at point to have been taken, recovered himself so valiantly as brought day on his side." --Milton. Dead point. (Mach.) Same as Dead center, under Dead. Far point (Med.), in ophthalmology, the farthest point at which objects are seen distinctly. In normal eyes the nearest point at which objects are seen distinctly; either with the two eyes together (binocular near point), or with each eye separately (monocular near point). Nine points of the law, all but the tenth point; the greater weight of authority. On the point. See At point, above. Point lace, lace wrought with the needle, as distinguished from that made on the pillow. Point net, a machine-made lace imitating a kind of Brussels lace (Brussels ground). Point of concurrence (Geom.), a point common to two lines, but not a point of tangency or of intersection, as, for instance, that in which a cycloid meets its base. Point of contrary flexure, a point at which a curve changes its direction of curvature, or at which its convexity and concavity change sides. Point of order, in parliamentary practice, a question of order or propriety under the rules. Point of sight (Persp.), in a perspective drawing, the point assumed as that occupied by the eye of the spectator. Point of view, the relative position from which anything is seen or any subject is considered. Points of the compass (Naut.), the thirty-two points of division of the compass card in the mariner's compass; the corresponding points by which the circle of the horizon is supposed to be divided, of which the four marking the directions of east, west, north, and south, are called cardinal points, and the rest are named from their respective directions, as N. by E., N. N. E., N. E. by N., N. E., etc. See Illust. under Compass. Point paper, paper pricked through so as to form a stencil for transferring a design. Point system of type. See under Type. Singular point (Geom.), a point of a curve which possesses some property not possessed by points in general on the curve, as a cusp, a point of inflection, a node, etc. To carry one's point, to accomplish one's object, as in a controversy. To make a point of, to attach special importance to. To make, or gain, a point, accomplish that which was proposed; also, to make advance by a step, grade, or position. To mark, or score, a point, as in billiards, cricket, etc., to note down, or to make, a successful hit, run, etc. To strain a point, to go beyond the proper limit or rule; to stretch one's authority or conscience. Vowel point, in Hebrew, and certain other Eastern and ancient languages, a mark placed above or below the consonant, or attached to it, representing the vowel, or vocal sound, which precedes or follows the consonant.
Score\ (sk[=o]r), n. [AS. scor twenty, fr. sceran, scieran, to shear, cut, divide; or rather the kindred Icel. skor incision, twenty, akin to Dan. skure a notch, Sw. sk[*a]ra. See Shear.]1. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account. Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used. --Shak. 2. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness. He parted well, and paid his score. --Shak. 3. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. --Hudibras. You act your kindness in Cydaria's score. --Dryden. 4. The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number. Amongst three or four score hogsheads. --Shak. At length the queen took upon herself to grant patents of monopoly by scores. --Macaulay. 5. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. --Halliwell. 6. A weight of twenty pounds. [Prov. Eng.] 7. The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket. 8. A line drawn; a groove or furrow. 9. (Mus.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). In score (Mus.), having all the parts arranged and placed in juxtaposition. --Smart. To quit scores, to settle or balance accounts; to render an equivalent; to make compensation. Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? --South.
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