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score

  [skawr, skohr] noun, plural scores, score for 11, verb, scored, scor⋅ing.
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–noun
1. 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

Related forms:
scoreless, adjective
scorer, noun
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score   (skôr, skōr)   
n.  
  1. A notch or incision, especially one that is made to keep a tally.
  2. Sports & Games
    1. A usually numerical record of a competitive event: keeping score.
    2. 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.
    3. The number of points attributed to a competitor or team.
    4. An amount due; a debt.
    5. A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction: settle an old score.
    6. The notation of a musical work.
    7. The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.
    8. The music written for a film or a play.
    9. 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).
    10. The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
    11. A successful robbery.
    12. A sexual conquest.
  3. A result, usually expressed numerically, of a test or examination.
    1. An amount due; a debt.
    2. A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction: settle an old score.
    3. The notation of a musical work.
    4. The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.
    5. The music written for a film or a play.
    6. 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).
    7. The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
    8. A successful robbery.
    9. A sexual conquest.
  5. A ground; a reason.
  6. A group of 20 items.
  7. scores Large numbers: Scores of people attended the rally.
  8. Music
    1. The notation of a musical work.
    2. The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.
    3. The music written for a film or a play.
    4. 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).
    5. The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
    6. A successful robbery.
    7. A sexual conquest.
  9. Slang
    1. 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).
    2. The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
    3. A successful robbery.
    4. A sexual conquest.
v.   scored, scor·ing, scores

v.   tr.
  1. To mark with lines or notches, especially for the purpose of keeping a record.
  2. To cancel or eliminate by or as if by superimposing lines.
  3. To mark the surface of (meat, for example) with usually parallel cuts.
  4. Sports & Games
    1. To gain (a point) in a game or contest.
    2. To count or be worth as points: A basket scores two points.
    3. To keep a written record of the score or events of (a game or contest).
    4. Baseball To cause (a base runner) to cross home plate, especially by getting a hit: scored both runners with a double.
    5. To orchestrate.
    6. To arrange for a specific instrument.
    7. To succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.
    8. To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug): "Aging punks try to impress her with tales of . . . the different drugs they've scored" (Art Jahnke).
  5. To achieve; win.
  6. To evaluate and assign a grade to.
  7. Music
    1. To orchestrate.
    2. To arrange for a specific instrument.
    3. To succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.
    4. To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug): "Aging punks try to impress her with tales of . . . the different drugs they've scored" (Art Jahnke).
  8. To criticize cuttingly; berate.
  9. Slang
    1. To succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.
    2. 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.
  1. Sports & Games
    1. To make a point in a game or contest.
    2. To keep the score of a game or contest.
    3. To achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup: "They . . . score in places like the bond market" (Mike Barnicle).
    4. To succeed in seducing someone sexually.
    5. To succeed in buying or obtaining an illicit drug.
  2. Slang
    1. To achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup: "They . . . score in places like the bond market" (Mike Barnicle).
    2. To succeed in seducing someone sexually.
    3. 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.]
scor'er n.
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Score

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.

Score

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.

Score

Score\ (sk[=o]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scored (sk[=o]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoring.]

1. To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash.

Let us score their backs. --Shak.

A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scored her white right hand. --M. Arnold.

2. Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.

3. To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

Madam, I know when, Instead of five, you scored me ten. --Swift.

Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score. --Shak.

4. To engrave, as upon a shield. [R.] --Spenser.

5. To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.

6. (Mus.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.

7. (Geol.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
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Language Translation for : score
Spanish: tanteo, resultado,
German: die Punktzahl,
Japanese: 得点
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score 
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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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score (skôr)
n.
A result of a test or examination, usually expressed numerically.

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score

see box score; know the score; pay off (an old score); settle a score.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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