Dictionary Definition
score
Noun
1 a number or letter indicating quality
(especially of a student's performance); "she made good marks in
algebra"; "grade A milk"; "what was your score on your homework?"
[syn: mark, grade]
2 a written form of a musical composition; parts
for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages;
"he studied the score of the sonata" [syn: musical
score]
3 a number that expresses the accomplishment of a
team or an individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to
0"
4 a set of twenty members; "a score were sent out
but only one returned"
5 grounds; "don't do it on my account"; "the
paper was rejected on account of its length"; "he tried to blame
the victim but his success on that score was doubtful" [syn:
account]
6 the facts about an actual situation; "he didn't
know the score"
7 an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar); "add
it to my score and I'll settle later"
8 a slight surface cut (especially a notch that
is made to keep a tally) [syn: scotch]
9 a resentment strong enough to justify
retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, grievance]
10 the act of scoring in a game or sport; "the
winning score came with less than a minute left to play"
11 a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse;
"calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example
of male slang" [syn: sexual
conquest]
Verb
1 gain points in a game; "The home team scored
many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"
[syn: hit, tally, rack up]
3 make underscoring marks [syn: mark]
4 write a musical score for
5 induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced
Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally" [syn:
seduce, make]
6 get a certain number or letter indicating
quality or performance; "She scored high on the SAT"; "He scored a
200"
7 assign a grade or rank to, according to one's
evaluation; "grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework"
[syn: grade, mark]
User Contributed Dictionary
Etymology
From the scora, notch (and hence, a tally). (For twenty: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.)Noun
- The total number of points earned by a participant in a game.
- The score is 4-0 although it's not even half-time!
- Twenty,
20 (number).
- Some words have scores of meanings.
- 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address,
based on the signed "Bliss Copy"
- "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
- A book or set of pages showing all the parts for a musical composition.
- A presentation of how many runs a side has scored, and how many
wickets have been lost.
- England had a score of 107 for 5 at lunch.
- The number of runs scored by a batsman, or by a side, in either an innings or a match.
- subject
Derived terms
Translations
number of points earned
- Arabic:
- Chinese: 得分 (défēn)
- Crimean Tatar: ball
- Czech: skóre
- Dutch: stand
- Finnish: tilanne, tulos, päätösnumerot, pistemäärä
- French: nombre de points
- German: Spielergebnis , Spielstand
- Hungarian: eredmény
- Italian: punteggio
- Japanese: スコア (sukoa)
- Korean: 득점 (deukjeom)
- Portuguese: marcador
- Romanian: scor
- Russian: счёт (sčot)
- Spanish: tantos m|p
- Swedish: poängsumma
twenty
- Finnish: tiu
- Russian: два десятка (dva desjátka) m|p
- Sindhi: (korr)
- Swedish: tjog
book containing musical composition
Verb
- To earn points in a game.
- Pelé scores again!
- To earn points in a game.
- It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.
- To scratch (paper or cardboard) with a sharp implement to make it easier to fold.
- To obtain (usually used in reference to illegal drugs, but often sex with a casual partner).
Translations
(intransitive) to earn points in a game
(transitive) to earn points in a game
(transitive) to scratch paper
- German: anritzen
(transitive) to obtain drugs or sex
- Finnish: saada
Extensive Definition
Score may refer to:
Numbers and statistics
- Score (game), a number of points achieved in a sporting event or game.
- a unit of twenty
- Score (statistics), the derivative, with respect to some parameter θ, of the logarithm of the likelihood function
- Raw score, an original datum that has not been transformed
- Standard score, a dimensionless quantity derived from the raw score
- Baseball scoring, a shorthand method of keeping track of statistics in a baseball game
Economics
Arts and crafts
- Musical score, a set of instructions giving the overall picture of a composition
- Dance score, a set of choreographic instructions expressed in a dance notation.
- SCORE notation program, a music scorewriter
- Film score, a sound recording of the music in a film
- Score (album), the live CD/DVD by progressive metal band Dream Theater
- Score (film), a 1972 pornographic film
- Score, a UK-based football comic, originally Score and Roar, published in 1970, merged with rival comic Scorcher in 1971
- A method used to join two pieces of pottery, each side is scored and then pressed together
- I Like to Score, an album by Moby, punning on the sexual, drug related, and film music uses of the word
Media
- Final Score/Score, a BBC soccer programme
- Score, a sports trading card brand
- Score (magazine), a pornographic magazine
- SCORE, a Czech games magazine
- SCORE (Spain), a free general sports magazine
- SCORE (television), a defunct joint television network
- Score Entertainment, makers of the Dragon Ball Z trading card game
- Score Inverness, a former radio company
- SCORE (306) Radio: Counselors to America's Small Business, a radio show hosted by SCORE Westchester, Chapter 306
Figurative uses
- a slang term for the verb of sexual intercourse or related sexual activity
Organisations
- SCORE Association, originally an acronym for Service Corps of Retired Executives, a resource partner with the Small Business Administration
- SCORE! Educational Centers
- SCORE International, an Offroad racing organization
- Acronym for the "Statistics, Computing, Operational Research and Economics" degree programme offered by University College London
Various
- Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite
- Scores (strip club) in New York City
- Scores (computer virus), an early computer virus affecting Macintosh computers
score in German: Score
score in French: Score
score in Dutch: Score
score in Japanese: スコア
score in Norwegian: Score
score in Simple English: Score
score in Serbian: Партитура
score in Swedish: Lista över
golftermer#Score
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
L, Nachtmusik, Sexagesima, Vandyke, absolute music,
accompaniment,
accomplish, account, account current,
account for, account rendered, account stated, accounts payable,
accounts receivable, achieve, acquire, adapt, adaptation, add, aggregate, air varie, aleatory, aleatory music,
algebraize, alphabet, ambition, amount, amount due, armies, army, arrange, arrangement, arrive, art, aspiration, attain, autolithograph, avenge, bad debts, bag, balance, band, bar, basis, be a printmaker, be seized
of, be successful, bevy,
bezel, bill, bill of account, bill of
lading, bills, birthmark, blaze, blaze a trail, blemish, blotch, blueprint, book, borrowing, box score, boxcar, boxcars, brand, brass tacks, break the
bank, burr, calculate, calendar, calling, canal, canalize, capture, carve, cash account, cast, caste mark, castigate, catalog, catch, cause, chalk, chalk up, chamber music,
chamber orchestra, chamfer, channel, character, charactering, characterization,
charge, charges, chart, chase, check, check off, checkmark, chink, chisel, chiseling, chits, chop, choreography, chump, cicatrix, cicatrize, cipher, cleft, cloud, come by, come in for, come
into, compose, composition, compute, condition, consideration, continuity, contract, control account,
conventional representation, copy, corral, corrugate, corrugation, cost, count, count for, crack, cranny, crease, crena, crenellate, crenulate, cribble, crimp, cross-hatching, crosshatch, crowd, cue, cut, dado, damage, dance notation, dapple, dash, debt, deface, define, delimit, delineation, demarcate, demitint, demonstration, depiction, depictment, depression, derive, descant, diagonal, diagram, difference, dike, discolor, discoloration, ditch, divide, dope out, dot, dotted line, dozen, dozens, draft, drag down, drama, draw, drawing, due, dues, dun, duodecimo, dupe, earmark, earn, edition, eighty, electronic music,
eleven, enchase, engrave, engravement, engraving, enroll, enter, enter into possession,
enumerate, essential
facts, essentials,
estimate, etch, etching, etude, excoriate, exemplification,
exercise, expenditure, expense, extract roots, fall
guy, fifteen, fifty, figuration, figure, figure in, figure out,
file, financial commitment,
five and twenty, flay,
fleck, flick, floating debt, flock, flocks, flourish, flute, fluting, fortnight, forty, four and twenty, fourscore, fourscore and ten,
fourteen, freckle, funded debt, furrow, gain, gash, gem-engraving, get, glass-cutting, glyptic, go, goal, goat, goffer, gouge, grade, graduate, grand slam, grave, graving, greenhorn, groove, ground, grounds, grudge, guiding light, guiding
star, gull, gully, hachure, hack, hairline, half a hundred, half
tint, harmonization, harmonize, harvest, hatch, hatching, herds, hieroglyphic, hit, hit it, hit the jackpot, hit
the mark, hole, hole in
one, home run, homer,
hordes, host, hosts, hymnal, hymnbook, iconography, ideal, ideogram, illustration, imagery, imaging, impanel, impress, imprint, incidental music,
incise, incision, income account,
indebtedness,
indebtment, indent, indentation, index, inscribe, inscript, inscription, inspiration, instrument, instrumental
music, instrumental score, instrumentate, intention, invention, inventory, invoice, itemize, itemized bill, jag, jog, joggle, jot, keep score, kerf, knurl, latest, legion, legions, lentigo, letter, liability, libretto, limning, line, lineation, lines, lining, list, lithograph, lodestar, logogram, logograph, long dozen,
lots, lute tablature,
machicolate,
macula, mainspring, make, make a hit, make a killing,
make a mark, make an adaptation, make an impression, make out, make
prints, manifest,
map, mar, mark, mark off, mark out, marking, masses, matter, maturity, measure, melodize, microgroove, mill, millions, mole, motive, mottle, mug, multiply, multitudes, music, music paper, music roll,
musical notation, musical score, musicalize, myriads, national debt, net, nevus, news, nick, ninety, nock, nocturne, nonagenarian, notation, notch, number, numbers, obligation, obtain, octogenarian, opera, opera score, opus, orchestral score, orchestrate, orchestration, outstanding
debt, packs, part, patch, patsy, pencil, pepper, piano score, picot, pictogram, picturization, piece, pigeonhole, pink, plan, playbook, pleat, pledge, plow, point, polka dot, poop, portraiture, portrayal, post, prefigurement, presentment, price, price tag, prick, principle, print, printing, procure, product, production, program, program music, projection, prosper, provision account,
provocation, public
debt, pull down, punch,
punctuate, puncture, put to music,
quantity, quindecennial, quindecim, quindecima, quindene, rabbet, rate, rationale, reach, realization, realize, ream out, reap, reason, reckon, reckoning, record, register, rendering, rendition, repay, representation, retaliate, revenue account,
ricercar, riddle, rifle, rifling, ring the bell, rout, ruck, running account, rut, sack, sake, sales account, scallop, scar, scarification, scarify, scathe, scenario, scene plot, schedule, schema, scoop, scorch, score a success, scores, scoring, scotch, scourge, scrape, scratch, scratching, script, sculpture, seal, seam, secure, selling account, septuagenarian, serrate, serration, set, set to music, seventy, sexagenarian, sexagenary,
sexagesimo-quarto, sheet music, shoals, shooting script, short
score, side, sitting duck,
situation, sixteen, sixteenmo, sixty, sixty-four, sixty-fourmo,
slam, slash, slashing, slit, sonata, sonatina, songbook, songster, source, speck, speckle, splash, splotch, spot, spring, stain, stamp, statement, status quo,
stigma, stigmatize, stipple, stippling, stock account,
story, strawberry mark,
streak, streaking, stria, striate, striation, strike, string orchestra, string
quartet, strip, stripe, striping, stroke, study, sublineation, subtract, succeed, sucker, sulcation, sulcus, sum, summary, summation, suspense account,
swarms, syllabary, symbol, tab, tablature, tabulate, take, take account of, tale, tally, tattoo, tattoo mark, tear to
pieces, teens, text, the bottom line, the data,
the details, the dope, the facts, the information, the particulars,
the picture, the scoop, the specifics, the story, the whole story,
theme and variations, thirteen, thirty-two,
thirty-twomo, threescore, threescore and
ten, thrive, tick, tick off, tint, tittle, tool, tooling, tooth, total, touchdown, trace, transcribe, transcript, transcription, transpose, trench, trio, triumph, trough, turn up trumps, twelve, twelvemo, twenty, twenty-five, twenty-four,
twenty-fourmo, two dozen, two weeks, twoscore, type-cutting,
ulterior motive, uncollectibles, underline, underlining, underscore, underscoring, unfulfilled
pledge, valuation account, variation, version, victim, virgule, vocal score, vocation, watermark, well-worn groove,
whole, win, word, work, work out, wrinkle, write, writing, written music, x
number