scoringn.
/ˈskɔːrɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈskɔrɪŋ/ 1. The action of score v. in various senses; an instance of this.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > keeping accounts > [noun] > rendering accounts of property or expenses
reckoning1340
scoring1546
count-making1569
render1744
society > communication > indication > marking > [noun]
markingOE
scoringa1696
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves
sulcation1658
fluting1728
grooving1728
scoring1769
scrieving1828
graving1877
furrowing1891
society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > [noun] > orchestration
scoring1786
instrumentation1818
instrumentalism1830
orchestration1838
rescoring1874
symphonization1932
society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun]
scoring1850
the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > [noun]
bismerc893
humiliationc1386
lowinga1398
dejectionc1450
avale?a1513
depression?1531
embasing1551
abasement1561
debasement1593
mortification1598
exinanitiona1631
demissiona1638
dejectment1656
depressure1656
dismounting1677
letting down1827
take-down1858
snubbing1861
scoring1893
deflation1958
the mind > mental capacity > psychology > developmental psychology > acquisition of knowledge > test of mental ability > test rating > [noun] > obtaining of
scoring1922
society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > [noun] > composing score for film
scoring1940
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > a film > screenplay or script > [noun] > writing musical score
scoring1940
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun]
habit1887
misuse1890
sleigh-ride1925
sleigh-riding1934
scoring1967
substance abuse1967
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > obtaining drugs
score1951
scoring1967
1546 in State Papers Henry VIII (1852) XI. 145 Mr Seymour who landed here yesternyght.., scapyng a scoryng, beyng chased furst by that knave cowerd Burley, and put in gret dawnger with the shot of a sacre.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. F4 Hearing how that poore woman did finde fault with his scoring, the Gentleman not only put her out of doores without wages, but would haue arrested her.
a1696 R. Plot in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) (1698) 20 183 [Called] by Dr. Merret, Nigrica Fabrilis, from its use in Scoring.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Transl. French Terms Assembler, to unite the several pieces of a ship, as by..scarfing, scoring, tenenting, &c.
1786 T. Busby Compl. Dict. Music Scoring, the art of forming a score by collecting and properly arranging under each other the several detached parts of any composition.
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 47 Kent and England play a match annually, at Lord's; their scores of last year will serve to illustrate the principles of scoring.
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 46 Where printed forms for..scoring are not procurable, a sheet of foolscap will answer every purpose.
1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda I. ii. xi. 201 Shall we go now and hear what the scoring says?
1882 Daily Tel. 19 May The scoring..was remarkably fast up to 67.
1885 Athenæum 4 Apr. 446/1 The bold drawing and emphatic scoring of the graver.
1893 F. F. Moore I forbid Banns (1899) 109 Julian did not admire this ‘scoring’ on Bertha's part.
1896 Sportsman 10 July 4/8 Brown..made most of the scoring.
1897 C. Vincent (title) Scoring for an Orchestra.
1903 A. W. Patterson Schumann 211 Facsimile of Scoring (From the B flat Symphony).
1904 Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 7/2 I viewed the match from the pavilion behind the goal where all the scoring was done.
1922 Jrnl. Experim. Psychol. 5 107 The scoring requires judgment.
1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 747/2 Scoring,..the preparation of the sound-script, in which are described all music and noises to be introduced into a motion-picture.
1952 A. G. Wesman in N. E. Gronlund Readings in Measurement (1968) xx. 201 Many objective tests..are not very reliable, yet the scoring is by definition objective.
1967 Daily Mirror 14 Aug. 9/1 This buying of heroin (‘scoring’ in junkie language) is being watched closely by London Drug Squad detectives.
1978 Time 3 July 45/1 Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing and scoring.
2. concrete. Lines or figures scored.
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society > communication > indication > marking > a mark > [noun] > line > made with sharp instrument
score1570
scoring1688
race1819
hack1887
the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > [noun] > making grooves > a groove, channel, or furrow > shallow
scratch1662
grating1678
scoring1688
scratching1860
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. iii. 94/1 Scoreing or Strick lines on the Canvice to sow straight.
1864 Reader 13 Feb. 209/3 Sir Charles Nicholson..referred to the scorings of human or animal forms on rocks.
1890 St. Nicholas Nov. 66/2 In the sandstone..the deep, broad scorings can be plainly seen.
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scoring block n. Cards a pad of printed score-sheets.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > scoring sheet or card
card counter1770
marker1870
scoring block1892
1892 Illustr. Sporting News 26 Nov. 407/2 Rubicon Bezique,..fitted complete with four packs of thin cards, Vickery's Collapsing Slope, Markers, and Scoring Block.
1933 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole End of Anc. Mariner ii. 18 On the table stood a decanter, flanked with packs of cards and scoring-blocks.
scoring board n. a board on which the state of the score at a match or contest is shown.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scoreboard
scoring board1822
scoreboard1831
telegraph board1841
marking board1850
board1883
leader board1970
1822 Morning Advertiser 17 Sept. A Full-sizde Billiard Table, with a set of balls, queues, maces, scoring board, lamps, &c.
1882 Bell's Life in London 20 May 5/1 An excellent novelty was exhibited on the ground during the Oxford Match, and that was a patent scoring board.
1904 P. F. Warner How we recovered Ashes iv. 60 The Melbourne Cricket Ground, with its..huge scoring-board.
scoring-book n. a book in which the scores of games are entered.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard
scoring-paper1840
scoring-book1845
scoring-card1845
score-paper1847
scorebook1851
scoring-sheet1851
score-sheet1859
scorecard1877
tally card1909
scoreline1969
1845 Wiltshire Independent 11 Sept. 10 byes darkened the scoring book.
1851 F. Lillywhite Guide to Cricketers (ed. 4) 71 ‘Lillywhite's Registered Scoring Book’ will be found extremely useful to Clubs, for the purpose of keeping the exact averages of all the members.
1883 F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius vii The little card-box and the scoring-book of the players.
scoring booth n.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > umpiring and scoring > [noun] > score > scoring-box
scoring booth1848
scoring-box1862
score-box1890
1848 Norwich Mercury 2 Sept. Scoring Cards, with a correct List of the Players, may be obtained..at the Scoring Booth.
1960 Cricketer Spring Annual 58/2 1851 A scoring booth was on view in the Great Exhibition.
scoring-box n. Cricket = score-box n. at score n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > umpiring and scoring > [noun] > score > scoring-box
scoring booth1848
scoring-box1862
score-box1890
1862 Nottingham Jrnl. 2 Aug. 7/2 Clarke..was afterwards caught by Mr. Burbidge off the bowling of Griffiths, close up to the scoring box.
1908 W. E. W. Collins Leaves from Old Country Cricketer's Diary xii. 201 When..I passed the scoring-box, en route for the pavilion, I found the small telegraph boy in the act of returning my score as sixty-nine.
scoring-card n. = scorecard n. at score n. Compounds 2 (a).
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard
scoring-paper1840
scoring-book1845
scoring-card1845
score-paper1847
scorebook1851
scoring-sheet1851
score-sheet1859
scorecard1877
tally card1909
scoreline1969
1845 Norfolk Chron. 6 Sept. Scoring Cards, with the Names of the Players on each Side, may be had of Mr. Gowing, Bookseller, Swaffham.
1891 W. G. Grace Cricket iii. 94 We kept in constant touch..posting the scoring-card at the end of every day's play.
1907 Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 386/1 Whist scoring cards.
1912 A. A. Lilley Twenty-four Years Cricket 124 No scoring-card could be invented to equal it in its completeness.
scoring engine n. Nautical a machine for scoring blocks.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > rigging a ship > block-making equipment
shaping machine1815
shaping engine1819
scoring engine1839
scoring machine1845
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 147 The scoring engine receives two blocks..and forms the groove round their longest diameters for the reception of their ropes or straps.
scoring iron n. (see quot. 1688).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > other leather-working equipment
scoring iron1688
paste-horn1834
dresser1853
pricker1858
stitch-wheel1875
try-stick1888
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. ix. 397/1 A Scoaring Iron... With this..they Scoare and run Veines on the Leather.
scoring-knife n. a knife for marking turf.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for marking out work > [noun] > sharp > for marking turf
scoring-knife1725
turf-knife1841
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Green-plot After the Lines are thus scored out with a sharp Scoring-knife.
scoring machine n. = scoring engine n.; also, a machine for scoring cardboard for making boxes (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1884).
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > rigging a ship > block-making equipment
shaping machine1815
shaping engine1819
scoring engine1839
scoring machine1845
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 298/1 Scoring the blocks..is performed by the scoring Machine.
scoring-paper n. (a) = score-paper n. at score n. Compounds 2; (b) Music printed paper on which a musical score may be entered.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard
scoring-paper1840
scoring-book1845
scoring-card1845
score-paper1847
scorebook1851
scoring-sheet1851
score-sheet1859
scorecard1877
tally card1909
scoreline1969
society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > [noun] > equipment for writing music
manuscript book1593
music paper1648
rostrum1740
scoring-paper1840
1840 Sheffield Iris 21 July The Marylebone Club against the Northern Counties..The following is a copy of the scoring papers.
1850 ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (rev. ed.) 48 Some clubs make it a rule to mark the number of ‘overs’ that each bowler gives, at the foot of the scoring papers.
1908 G. B. Shaw Let. 27 May (1972) II. 788 You will only waste a good deal of scoring paper which you might employ far better by trying to deal, as Strauss does,..with the modern world in a crisp and powerful style.
scoring-sheet n. = score-sheet n. at score n. Compounds 2.
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society > leisure > sport > recording score > [noun] > scorecard
scoring-paper1840
scoring-book1845
scoring-card1845
score-paper1847
scorebook1851
scoring-sheet1851
score-sheet1859
scorecard1877
tally card1909
scoreline1969
1851 Sussex Advertiser 1 July 6/2 Cheesman and Ward getting runs in quick succession, the former placing 11 on the scoring sheet.
1859 in W. A. Bettesworth Walkers of Southgate (1900) v. 54 (caption) Scoring Books and Sheets.
1891 W. G. Grace in Outdoor Games 15 Scoring-sheet. Match played at Bilbery.
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scoring stroke n. Golf a stroke in score-play.
scoring-table n. Cricket the table at which the scorer or scorers sit.
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1846 Bristol Times 1 Aug. I, therefore, lounged in the tent, and wandered near the scoring table, to learn all I could.
1857 T. Hughes Tom Brown's School Days ii. viii. 387 ‘How many runs?’ Away scamper three boys to the scoring-table.
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scoring circle n. (in various team sports and games) a marked area on the playing surface, spec. (a) chiefly Hockey and Lacrosse either of the marked areas in front of or surrounding the goal at each end of the pitch; (b) a marked area into which a playing piece must land in order for any points to be scored.
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1890 Boston Daily Globe 16 Oct. 7/1 Pools of water lay in spots, the scoring circle and that portion of the track in front of the stand being muddy.
1925 Teaching May 20 Goal keeper fouls if he steps outside the scoring circle while the ball is in play.
1978 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 13 Mar. They left only two guard rocks outside the scoring circle which Canadian second Doug McFarlane cleared with one shot.
2003 K. Hosseini Kite Runner (2004) iii. 18 A chapandaz, a highly skilled horseman usually patronized by rich aficionados, has to snatch a goat or cattle carcass from the midst of a melee, carry that carcass with him around the stadium at full gallop, and drop it in a scoring circle while a team of other chapandaz chases him and does everything in its power—kick, claw, whip, punch—to snatch the carcass from him.
2016 Manningham Leader (Austral.) (Nexis) 29 Aug. 64 Meaden won a tough trap and passed to Daniel McBride who pushed into the scoring circle and found an Essendon foot to set up the first short corner of the match.
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