score /skör or skōr/

1. A notch, gash, or scratch
2. An incised line
3. A boldly drawn line, esp one marking a deletion
4. A line marking a boundary, starting-place, or defined position
5. An arrangement of music on a number of staves (perh orig with the bar divisions running continuously through all)
6. A composition so distributed
7. Music for a film, television or radio play or the music and songs for a stage or film musical
8. A notch in a tally
9. An account of charges incurred (as in a tavern) by tallies or (later) chalk marks or the like
10. A debt incurred
11. A reckoning, account
12. A grievance, grudge
13. The full total
14. The total or record of points made in a game
15. An addition made thereto
16. The result of a test or examination (N American)
17. A successful attempt to obtain drugs for illegal use (slang)
18. A set of twenty (sometimes verging upon numeral adj)
19. (in pl) applied also to an indefinitely large number
20. Twenty or twenty-one pounds in weight
21. A distance of twenty paces (obsolete)
22. A fixed number (20 to 26) of tubs of coal

1. To mark with or by scores
2. To record in or with a score
3. To make a score through as a mark of deletion (with out or through)
4. To write as a score (music)
5. To break down (a musical composition) into parts for individual (groups of) instruments, and write the appropriate music
6. To make as a score
7. To add to a score
8. To achieve
9. To enumerate
10. To record
11. To mark (a test or examination) (N American)
12. To rebuke or criticize harshly (N American)

1. To keep or run up a score
2. To make a point
3. To achieve a success
4. To be worth a certain number of points
5. To keep a record of points gained during a game
6. (of a man) to succeed in having sexual intercourse (slang)
7. To obtain illegal drugs (slang)

scoreˈless adjective

scorˈer noun

A person who or thing that scores

scorˈing noun

1. The act of scoring
2. 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

1. To know the hard facts of the situation
2. To know what is required, without having to be told

on that score

As regards that matter

over the score (informal)

1. Beyond reasonable limits
2. Unfair

pay off (or settle) old scores

To deal decisively with old grudges

run up a score

To run up a debt

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