scoreboardn.
/ˈskɔːbɔːd/, U.S. /ˈskɔrˌbɔrd/ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > account or statement of > [noun] > account book > specific
Great Roll1397
pell1434
red book?1445
pipe1461
the Black Book of the Exchequer1592
pipe roll1612
great book1794
scoreboard1823
1823 La Belle Assemblée Apr. 169/1 Her..husband..slyly sneaking to the scoreboard, rubbed out two and threepence in the reckoning, and conscientiously chalked up five shillings.
1826 H. Smith Tor Hill (1838) I. 90 A species of desk on which was lying a black score-board and a lump of chalk.
1842 Churchman Nov. 326 It is an excellent idea, landlady: lend me your sponge, and I will wipe off the national debt as clean as you have your debts from the score-board.
2.
a. Chiefly Sport. A board, esp. now a large board with an electronic display visible to spectators, on which the running score or result of a game or contest can be viewed. Also more generally: a board that displays scores, progress, etc. Non-electronic scoreboards come in many different formats. Some use individual digits which can be manually replaced as a score changes; some may be blackboards with scores recorded using chalk, while others, such as those used in billiards, consist of a wall-mounted device with rails marked with a scale and along which pointers can be moved.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scoreboard
scoring board1822
scoreboard1831
telegraph board1841
marking board1850
board1883
leader board1970
1831 Reading Mercury 28 Nov. A good full-sized billiard table, with excellent cues, two sets of balls, score board, &c.
1874 Bell's Life in London 10 Jan. 5/2 W. Wilson marked the game carefully and accurately, although the overcrowding round the score-board rendered his task by no means an easy one.
1884 Harper's Mag. Jan. 299/1 The club has its own score-board.
1904 Daily Chron. 26 July 7/1 The score-board showed Somerset 147 up for the loss of four wickets.
1922 Monthly Labor Rev. Nov. 25 At the noon hour it was interesting to see the hundreds of employees gathering around the score boards showing the standing of the different plants, which had been erected in several places in the plant.
2019 Salisbury Jrnl. (Nexis) 27 Mar. The away team were first onto the scoreboard with another fine try and the home support had to rub their eyes when the scoreboard showed Chippenham had taken the lead.
b. figurative. A display or representation of achievement, progress towards a particular goal, etc.
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1925 Sandusky (Ohio) Reg. 10 Oct. 8/2 Every time the United States Senate has turned its back..the chief executive Coolidge stock has gone up several points on the political scoreboard.
1963 J. Joesten They call it Intelligence i. v. 51 What kind of record has the CIA?..The scoreboard: ‘Soviet satellites—Excellent’...‘Missiles—Good.’
2020 Greenwire (Nexis) 25 Nov. The inspector general's results scoreboard showed the cost savings the watchdog office achieved during the reporting period.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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