Score
[skɔː] or [skɔ]
Definition
(noun.) the act of scoring in a game or sport; 'the winning score came with less than a minute left to play'.
(noun.) the facts about an actual situation; 'he didn't know the score'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a set of twenty members; 'a score were sent out but only one returned'.
(noun.) 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'.
(noun.) a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest; 'the score was 7 to 0'.
(noun.) a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally).
(noun.) an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar); 'add it to my score and I'll settle later'.
(verb.) make underscoring marks.
(verb.) gain points in a game; 'The home team scored many times'; 'He hit a home run'; 'He hit .300 in the past season'.
(verb.) get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance; 'She scored high on the SAT'; 'He scored a 200'.
(verb.) make small marks into the surface of; 'score the clay before firing it'.
(verb.) write a musical score for.
Typed by Aldo--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
(n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
(n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
(n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.
(n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
(n.) A weight of twenty pounds.
(n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.
(n.) A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
(n.) 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.
(v. t.) 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.
(v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.
(v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
(v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield.
(v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.
(v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.
(n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.
Checked by Archie
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Mark, incision, notch, furrow.[2]. Account, charge, bill, debt, reckoning.[3]. Reason, motive, ground, consideration, sake.[4]. Twenty.
v. a. [1]. Mark, notch, furrow, cut, scratch.[2]. Record, note, charge, set down, jot down.
Checker: Mandy
Definition
n. a mark or notch for keeping count: a line drawn: the number twenty once represented by a larger notch: a reckoning: a debt: the register of the various points of play in a game: account: reason: the original draught of a musical composition with all the parts or its transcript.—v.t. to mark with notches or lines: to furrow: to set down: to charge: to engrave: to braid: to note: to enter: to make points &c. in certain games.—v.i. to keep or to run up a score: to succeed in making points &c. in a game.—ns. Scōr′er one who keeps the marks in a game; Scōr′ing the act of one who or that which scores: a deep groove made by glacial action: the act of repeatedly bringing a racer and his rider to the starting-point so as to get a fair start.—Go off at score to make a spirited start; Pay off old scores to repay old grudges; Run up a score to run up a debt.
Typist: Portia
Examples
- If Mr. Snagsby hastens home to save his little woman the trouble of looking for him, he might set his mind at rest on that score. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Soon, from a score of the great windows, flames burst forth, and the stone faces awakened, stared out of fire. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Her clumsy fib had let him see that she had something to conceal; and she was sure he had a score to settle with her. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- You've got me out of a score of scrapes. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The price of an ox, reckoned at ten guineas, is about three score times the price of a lamb, reckoned at 3s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- His expression was, 'a round score o' year ago, and a'most directly after I took up wi' Compeyson. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Then, a score of others ran into the midst of these, beating their breasts, tearing their hair, and screaming, Foulon alive! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Such were the shouts which followed the stroke; and at the conclusion of which All-Muggleton had scored two. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Your censor-pencil scored it with condemnatory lines, whose signification I strove vainly to fathom. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Take a pinch of snuff, Doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Throughout a large part of the United States, erratic boulders and scored rocks plainly reveal a former cold period. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- It might, therefore, be natural to ask how far Edison or his companies have benefited pecuniarily by reason of the many belated victories they have scored in the courts. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The doctor has scored once more. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- His face was gaunt and swarthy, scored with deep, savage lines. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Scores, says Mr. Bagnet. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Scores of millions were suffering and enfeebled by under-nourishment and misery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- He'd have their lives, and the lives of scores of 'em. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- My old eyes have seen them--ay, and those old hands touched them too; for I have helped her, scores of times. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- Nothing, for example, could on the surface be more trivial than an interest in baseball scores. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- But it's extraordinary the difficulty I have on scores of such subjects, in speaking to any one on equal terms. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- Haven't you done it, with other boys, scores of times? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- He was a slow sailer on a wind of happiness, but he took a cross cut for the rendezvous, and pegged away as if he were scoring furiously at cribbage. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All was white, icy, pallid, save for the scoring of black rocks that jutted like roots sometimes, and sometimes were in naked faces. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checker: Wilbur