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n. A notch or incision, especially one that is made to keep a tally.

n. Sports & Games A usually numerical record of a competitive event: keeping score.

n. Sports & Games The total number of points made by each competitor or side in a contest, either final or at a given stage: The score stood tied in the bottom of the ninth inning.

n. Sports & Games The number of points attributed to a competitor or team.

n. A result, usually expressed numerically, of a test or examination.

n. An amount due; a debt.

n. A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction: settle an old score.

n. A ground; a reason.

n. A group of 20 items.

n. Large numbers: Scores of people attended the rally.

n. Music The notation of a musical work.

n. Music The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.

n. Music The music written for a film or a play.

n. Slang The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain: "He had dropped out of school and gone for that quick dollar, that big score” ( Peter Goldman).

n. Slang The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.

n. Slang A successful robbery.

n. Slang A sexual conquest.

v. To mark with lines or notches, especially for the purpose of keeping a record.

v. To cancel or eliminate by or as if by superimposing lines.

v. To mark the surface of (meat, for example) with usually parallel cuts.

v. Sports & Games To gain (a point) in a game or contest.

v. Sports & Games To count or be worth as points: A basket scores two points.

v. Sports & Games To keep a written record of the score or events of (a game or contest).

v. Baseball Sports & Games To cause (a base runner) to cross home plate, especially by getting a hit: scored both runners with a double.

v. To achieve; win.

v. To evaluate and assign a grade to.

v. Music To orchestrate.

v. Music To arrange for a specific instrument.

v. To criticize cuttingly; berate.

v. Slang To succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.

v. Slang To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug): "Aging punks try to impress her with tales of . . . the different drugs they've scored” ( Art Jahnke).

verb-intransitive. Sports & Games To make a point in a game or contest.

verb-intransitive. Sports & Games To keep the score of a game or contest.

verb-intransitive. Slang To achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup: "They . . . score in places like the bond market” ( Mike Barnicle).

verb-intransitive. Slang To succeed in seducing someone sexually.

verb-intransitive. Slang To succeed in buying or obtaining an illicit drug.

n. The total number of points earned by a participant in a game.

n. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.

n. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.

n. Twenty, 20 (number).

n. One or more parts of a musical composition in a format indicating how the composition is to be played.

n. A presentation of how many runs a side has scored, and how many wickets have been lost.

n. The number of runs scored by a batsman, or by a side, in either an innings or a match.

n. subject

v. To earn points in a game.

v. To earn (points) in a game.

v. To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.

v. To record (the score) for a game or a match

v. To scratch (paper or cardboard) with a sharp implement to make it easier to fold.

v. To make fine, shallow lines with a sharp implement as cutting indications.

v. To have sexual intercourse.

v. To acquire or gain.

v. To obtain something desired.

v. To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.

n. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

n. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.

n. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

n. The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.

n. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

n. A weight of twenty pounds.

n. The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

n. A line drawn; a groove or furrow.

n. The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.

n. the grade received on an examination, such as those given in school or as a qualifying examination for a job or admission to school; -- it may be expressed as a percentage of answers which are correct, or as a number or letter.

v. To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow.

v. Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something.

v. To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

v. To engrave, as upon a shield.

v. To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.

v. To write down in proper order and arrangement. See Score, n., 9.

v. To mark with parallel lines or scratches.

verb-intransitive. To keep the score in a game; to act as scorer.

verb-intransitive. To make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally.

verb-intransitive. To run up a score, or account of dues.

verb-intransitive. To succeed in finding a partner for sexual intercourse; to make a sexual conquest.

verb-intransitive. To purchase drugs illegally.

n. A notch; a crack; a fissure; a cleft.

n. Especially, a notch or cut made on a tally in keeping count of something: formerly a usual mode of reckoning; also, the tally or stick itself; hence, any mark used in reckoning or keeping count.

n. A reckoning or account kept by scores, marks, or otherwise, as the reckoning for unpaid potations marked with chalk on the tap-room door of a public house; hence, a reckoning or account in general: as, to keep the score.

n. The marks, or the sum of the marks, placed to one's debit; amount due; debt.

n. The aggregate of points made by contestants in certain games or matches: as, he makes a good score at cricket or base-ball; the score stood 5 to 1.

n. The detailed record or register of the various points or items of play made by players in a game or by competitors in a match.

n. Account; reason; ground; motive.

n. A line drawn; a long superficial scratch or mark.

n. Specifically, the line at which a marksman stands in target-shooting, or which forms the “scratch” or startingpoint in a race.

n. In music, a written or printed draft or copy of a composition on a set of two or more staffs braced and barred together.

n. The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally, or a separate series of marks; twenty.

n. In old archery, twenty yards: thus, a mark of twelve score meant a mark at the distance of 240 yards.

n. Twenty pounds weight: as, a score of meal. [Ireland and West of Eng.]

n. Nautical: The groove cut in the side and bottom of a block or deadeye for the strapping to fit in.

n. A notch or groove made in a piece of timber or metal to allow another piece to be neatly fitted into it.

To make scores or cuts in or upon; mark with incisions, notches, or grooves; furrow; slash; specifically, to make a long shallow cut in (cardboard or very thick paper), so that the card or paper can be bent without breaking, as for book-covers or folded cards.

To incise; engrave.

To stripe; braid.

To mark or record by a cut or score; in general, to mark; note; record.

To set down, enter, or charge as a debt or debtor: sometimes with up.

To succeed in making or winning and having entered to one's account or credit, as points, hits, runs, etc., in certain games; make a score of: as, he scored twenty runs; to score another victory.

In music:

To write out in score; transcribe.

Same as orchestrate: as, the movement is scored for brass and strings only.

To arrange for a different instrument.

Milit., to produce erosion of (the bore of a gun) by the explosion of large charges.

To keep the score or reckoning; act as scorer.

To make points or runs in a game; succeed in having points or runs entered to one's credit or account; also, to be a winner or have the advantage: as, in the first inning he failed to score; A struggled hard, but B scored.

To run up a score; be or become a purchaser on credit.

A Middle English form of scour.

n. In archery, a record of all the shots of an archer; a record of all the shots of all the archers in a shooting-match; the sum of all the units won by an archer in a round. See round, 7 .

In lumbering, to chip off the side of a log to a line, preparatory to facing it by hewing.

Specifically, in archery, to keep a record of all the shots of one or several archers; make an entry on such a record. By the present method of scoring, hits in the gold, red, blue, black, and white are scored 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1 respectively. See target, 2.

In horse-racing, to try for a start.

To part or tend to part along the elements of the surface: said of castings which split from unequal contraction on cooling of the various parts.

In geology, to erode in striæ or grooves: said of glaciers. See rock-scoring.

n. a set of twenty members

n. grounds

v. write a musical score for

n. a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation

n. the act of scoring in a game or sport

n. the facts about an actual situation

v. make small marks into the surface of

v. gain points in a game

n. an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)

v. make underscoring marks

v. assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation

n. a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)

n. a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages

v. get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance

n. a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest

v. induce to have sex

n. a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)

n. a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse

"Here is hoping for an improvement in score from a ‘D’ to at least a ‘B’ (or ‘B+’) when you next put ‘pen to paper’."

scored    scores    scoring   

set    reason    ground    resentment    bitterness    gall    rancor    rancour    fact    debt   

notch    mark    line    account    record    matter    reason    twenty    charged    to go off at score   

fourscore    scoreless    scorecard    go off at score    threescore    film score   

Bill    account    reason    motive    sake    behalf    record    charge    tally    cut   

Boer    Bohr    C4    Dior    Dore    Flore    Fore    Gabor    Gore    Igor   

Voices   

hundred    number    dozen    couple    account    handful    series    performance    none    picture