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Definition score
Etymology
From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skur? (“incision; tear; rift”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear. (For twenty: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.)
Noun
score (plural scores)
- The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
- Twenty, 20 (number).
- A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
- A weight of twenty pounds.
- (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
- (music) The music of a movie or play.
- Subject.
- Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
- A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
- An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
- (US, crime, slang) a criminal act, especifically:
- (US, vulgar, slang) A sexual conquest.
Verb
score (third-person singular simple present scores, present participle scoring, simple past and past participle scored)
- (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
- (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
- (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
- (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
Interjection
score!
- (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success
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