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Score   /skɔr/   Listen
Score

noun
1.
A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance).  Synonyms: grade, mark.  "Grade A milk" , "What was your score on your homework?"
2.
A written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages.  Synonym: musical score.
3.
A number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest.
4.
A set of twenty members.
5.
Grounds.  Synonym: 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.
7.
An amount due (as at a restaurant or bar).
8.
A slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally).  Synonym: scotch.
9.
A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation.  Synonyms: grievance, grudge.  "Settling a score"
10.
The act of scoring in a game or sport.
11.
A seduction culminating in sexual intercourse.  Synonym: sexual conquest.
verb
(past & past part. scored; pres. part. scoring)
1.
Gain points in a game.  Synonyms: hit, rack up, tally.  "He hit a home run" , "He hit .300 in the past season"
2.
Make small marks into the surface of.  Synonyms: mark, nock.
3.
Make underscoring marks.  Synonym: mark.
4.
Write a musical score for.
5.
Induce to have sex.  Synonyms: make, seduce.  "Did you score last night?" , "Harry made Sally"
6.
Get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance.  "He scored a 200"
7.
Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation.  Synonyms: grade, mark.  "Score the SAT essays" , "Mark homework"



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"Score" Quotes from Famous Books



... A score of paces from the rose arbor he stopped. He had not the least idea as to the direction Nora had taken, and so was puzzled about the next thing to do. But after the fright she had gotten he felt sure that ...
— Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist • John T. McIntyre
... waiting, with his hand on the door-handle, for the stroke, heard the smack of the balls, and the score called by the marker, and entered the hot, glaring room. Old Major Jackson, with his glass in his eye, was contending in his shirt-sleeves heroically with a Manchester bag-man, who was palpably too much for ...
— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu
... what could one do against a score? Nay, thou must go and hide for the present in the ...
— The Rival Heirs being the Third and Last Chronicle of Aescendune • A. D. Crake
... for each suggestion adopted, quarterly prizes of ten to fifty dollars were awarded for the most valuable suggestions; and finally a dozen or a score of the men submitting the best ideas were sent on a week's tour of observation to other industrial centers and notable plants. In some instances the expense incurred was considerable, but the companies considered ...
— Increasing Efficiency In Business • Walter Dill Scott
... that the Rovers and their chums were somewhat disappointed that the score stood four ...
— The Rover Boys at Big Horn Ranch - The Cowboys' Double Round-Up • Edward Stratemeyer


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