score /skör or skōr/ noun- A notch, gash, or scratch
- An incised line
- A boldly drawn line, esp one marking a deletion
- A line marking a boundary, starting-place, or defined position
- An arrangement of music on a number of staves (perh orig with the bar divisions running continuously through all)
- A composition so distributed
- Music for a film, television or radio play or the music and songs for a stage or film musical
- A notch in a tally
- An account of charges incurred (as in a tavern) by tallies or (later) chalk marks or the like
- A debt incurred
- A reckoning, account
- A grievance, grudge
- The full total
- The total or record of points made in a game
- An addition made thereto
- The result of a test or examination (N American)
- A successful attempt to obtain drugs for illegal use (slang)
- A set of twenty (sometimes verging upon numeral adj)
- (in pl) applied also to an indefinitely large number
- Twenty or twenty-one pounds in weight
- A distance of twenty paces (obsolete)
- A fixed number (20 to 26) of tubs of coal
transitive verb- To mark with or by scores
- To record in or with a score
- To make a score through as a mark of deletion (with out or through)
- To write as a score (music)
- To break down (a musical composition) into parts for individual (groups of) instruments, and write the appropriate music
- To make as a score
- To add to a score
- To achieve
- To enumerate
- To record
- To mark (a test or examination) (N American)
- To rebuke or criticize harshly (N American)
intransitive verb- To keep or run up a score
- To make a point
- To achieve a success
- To be worth a certain number of points
- To keep a record of points gained during a game
- (of a man) to succeed in having sexual intercourse (slang)
- To obtain illegal drugs (slang)
ORIGIN: Late OE scoru, from ON skor, skora; cf OE sceran (pap scoren) to shear scoreˈless adjective scorˈer noun A person who or thing that scores scorˈing noun - The act of scoring
- Orchestration
scoreˈboard or scoring board noun A board on which the score is exhibited, as at cricket scoreˈcard, scoring card or scoreˈsheet noun A card or sheet, for recording the score in a game score draw noun (esp football) A drawn match in which both teams have scored at least once scoreˈline noun A score in a match, etc go off at score (old) To make a spirited start know the score - To know the hard facts of the situation
- To know what is required, without having to be told
on that score As regards that matter over the score (informal) - Beyond reasonable limits
- Unfair
pay off (or settle) old scores To deal decisively with old grudges run up a score To run up a debt score an own goal (informal) To do something unintentionally to one's own disadvantage score off or score points off (informal) To achieve a success against, get the better of |