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Scoring

noun

1.

Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score. Synonyms: grading, marking.

Score

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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... corner confabs had followed. Mary, who did not aspire to basket ball honors, had been present at these talks. In the beginning the discussions had merely been devoted to the devising of signals and the various methods of scoring against their opponents. But gradually a new and sinister note had crept in. Mignon did not actually counsel her team to take unfair advantages, but she made many artful suggestions, backed up by a play of ...

— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester

... circles. Our art has never been national art: I cannot imagine our making the fuss about a great writer that is made about a second-rate journalist in Paris. It is Grace the cricketer for whom the hundred thousand subscribe their shilling: fancy a writer thus rewarded, even after scoring his century of popular novels. The winning of the Derby gives a new fillip to the monarchy itself. A Victor Hugo in London is a thought a faire rire. A Goethe at the court of Victoria, or directing Drury Lane Theatre, ...

— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill

... 1538 a message had been received containing "an advertisement for the setting forth of the Word of God, abolishing of the Bishop of Rome's usurped authority, and extinguishing of idolatry."[22] Immediately the members of the council hostile to Lord Grey saw their opportunity of scoring a signal victory. If they could not penetrate into the North or West they determined to make an excursion into the "four shires above the Barrow" to assert the king's supremacy, "but also to levy the first fruits and twentieth part with other of ...

— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance • Rev. James MacCaffrey

... the implements required are the bow, arrows, targets, a quiver pouch and belt, an arm-guard or brace, a shooting glove or finger tip, and a scoring card. ...

— Our Deportment - Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society • John H. Young

... means of escaping, if courage can without indignity be ever said to escape. He sat uneasy on his lap-board. Instead of cutting out soberly, he nourished his scissors as if he were heading a faction; he wasted much chalk by scoring his cloth in wrong places, and even caught his hot goose without a holder. These symptoms alarmed, his friends, who persuaded him to go to a doctor. Neal went, to satisfy them; but he knew that no prescription could drive the courage out of him—that he was too far gone in ...

— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton

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