score
Part of speech: noun
verb
intj
Morphological type: simple
Topics: broadcasting
entertainment
film
gambling
games
hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
media
music
pets
racing
sports
television
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker-
Proto-Germanic *skurō
Old Norse skorder.
Old English scoru
Middle English score
English score
From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.
Inflected forms:
form: scores
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: score
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: scores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: scored
pos: verb
tags: past
form: no-table-tags
pos: verb
tags: table-tags
form: glossary
pos: verb
tags: inflection-template
form: score
pos: verb
tags: infinitive
form: score
pos: verb
tags: first-person
present
singular
form: scored
pos: verb
tags: first-person
past
singular
form: score
pos: verb
tags: present
second-person
singular
form: scorest
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
second-person
singular
form: scored
pos: verb
tags: past
second-person
singular
form: scoredst
pos: verb
tags: archaic
past
second-person
singular
form: scores
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: scoreth
pos: verb
tags: archaic
present
singular
third-person
form: scored
pos: verb
tags: past
singular
third-person
form: score
pos: verb
tags: plural
present
form: scored
pos: verb
tags: past
plural
form: score
pos: verb
tags: present
subjunctive
form: scored
pos: verb
tags: past
subjunctive
form: score
pos: verb
tags: imperative
present
form: -
pos: verb
tags: imperative
past
form: scoring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: scored
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
Senses:
gloss: The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
pos: noun
examples: The player with the highest score is the winner.
gloss: The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
pos: noun
examples: The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!
gloss: The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
pos: noun
examples: The test scores for this class were high.
The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQ scores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQ scores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.
gloss: Twenty (20).
pos: noun
examples: 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.
I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.
gloss: Twenty (20).
pos: noun
examples: At Markes full fortie score they vs'd to Prick and Roue.
gloss: Twenty (20).
pos: noun
gloss: Twenty (20).
pos: noun
gloss: Twenty (20).
pos: noun
tags: UK
slang
examples: DEVLIN:You know the apple and core. Head might cost you a score, or more if you want a meat show on all fours.
gloss: A great deal; many, several.
pos: noun
tags: in-plural
often
examples: Some words have scores of meanings.
gloss: An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
pos: noun
examples: Use a few “introductory plays” to become known to a casino before you go for a big score.
gloss: The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.
pos: noun
gloss: The music of a movie or play.
pos: noun
examples: Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
gloss: A subject.
pos: noun
examples: Well, although we haven't discussed the views of all those who make precise reckonings of being and not [being], we've done enough on that score.
gloss: An account; a reason; a motive; a sake; a behalf.
pos: noun
examples: But left the trade, as many more / Have lately done on the same score.
You act your kindneſs on Cydaria’s ſcore.
The local village priest is expected to pass through the Holi bonfire, which, in the opinion of the faithful, cannot burn him. Indeed he holds his land rent-free simply on the score of his being fire-proof.
gloss: A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
pos: noun
examples: Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.
gloss: An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
pos: noun
examples: He parted well, and paid his score.
gloss: A criminal act, especially:
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: Let's pull a score!
Batman: Dangerous crowd you're stealing from.
Catwoman: Jesus. Is this how you get your kicks, hon? Sneaking up on girls in the dark?
Batman: Is that why you work in the club? It was all just a score?
gloss: A criminal act, especially:
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A criminal act, especially:
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
examples: He made a big score.
gloss: A criminal act, especially:
pos: noun
tags: US
slang
gloss: A sexual conquest.
pos: noun
tags: slang
vulgar
examples: Ah, who gives a shit? The only score I'm interested in is the one I might make if some foxy chicks start pilin' outta there.
gloss: In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.
pos: noun
tags: UK
regional
examples: Above the harbour, steeply up the hill, run The Bolts, narrow stepped passages, equivalent of The Scores of Lowestoft and The Rows of Great Yarmouth.
gloss: A document which systematically lists differences among compiled manuscripts of a source text.
pos: noun
examples: Robson counted 92 exemplars of Gilgamesh and Huwawa A and 59 of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld (“Tablet House,” 54). Since that time, several joins have reduced the number of distinct copies, so that Delnero’s score for Gilgamesh and Huwawa A now includes 85 total, mostly of the Type III extract category (Variation in Sumerian Literary Compositions: A Case Study Based on the Decad, University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., 2006).
gloss: To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
The baker scored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it.
gloss: To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To obtain something desired.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: "Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did. After all, I've scored by it."
In the past decade gay people have scored a number of significant advances.
gloss: To obtain something desired.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.
Pelé scores again!
And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.
gloss: To obtain something desired.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: No, Butthead, that's my point. You didn't score. You got a zero.
At the end of first grade, the children scored 80 percent correct on this test, a value that remained unchanged through third grade.
Intelligence is heritable, and for a long time, researchers assumed that people with high IQ scores would have kids who also scored above average.
gloss: To obtain something desired.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: […] he scored big by hitting the jack pot at the Bellagio (he won $7,000). The next day, he won $15,000 on the nickel machines at the Palm Casino!
gloss: To obtain something desired.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
examples: I scored some drugs last night.
Did you score tickets for the concert?
What am I doing in this place? / Why does the doctor have no face? / Oh, I can't crawl across the floor / Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score
I jump up, bubble up, what's in store? / Love is the drug and I need to score
gloss: To obtain something desired.
pos: verb
tags: US
ambitransitive
slang
gloss: To obtain something desired.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
slang
vulgar
examples: Chris finally scored with Pat last week.
Gotta find a chick who'll give you more / Well, there's a spot that I've discovered / Where a guy's guaranteed to score
A red-blooded American male who once scored with reality TV stars, he [Sean Duffy] is now a devoted dad with his own chicken coop and beehives, publicly pledging his commitment to his wife and their old Chrysler minivan.
gloss: To rate; to evaluate the quality of.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Critics scored the game 92%.
[…] this was the case for most students, who scored it highly (medians of 4 with many scores of 5) […]
gloss: To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.
Robertson scored several of Scorsese’s films, including Raging Bull, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman.
gloss: To return (a horse and rider) to the starting-point repeatedly, until a fair start is achieved.
pos: verb
tags: ambitransitive
examples: […] and the scoring for a start by these "inferior" horses would kill a thoroughbred. As an instance, in the 2:27 race at Cleveland, last summer, twelve horses scored seventeen times before they got a fair start.
gloss: An acknowledgement of success.
pos: intj
tags: US
slang
Synonyms: earn
obtain
Derived words: Apgar score
Baux score
box score
buzz score
by the score
credit score
cricket score
eightscore
elevenscore
even the score
film score
fivescore
fourscore
four score and seven years ago
four score and ten
four score seven years ago
full score
game score
GERP score
Gleason score
go off at score
ground score
high score
hi-score
high score table
high-score table
keep score
know the score
major score
ninescore
no score
no-score draw
on that score
on this score
on what score
outscore
overscore
pain score
pay off old scores
Q score
quit scores
run up the score
score attack
score bug
scorecard
score-draw
score draw
scoreless
scores
score-settling
score sheet
score-sheet
score string
settle a score
settle the score
sevenscore
sixscore
tenscore
threescore
three score and fifth
three score and ten
twelvescore
twoscore
underscore
Wilson score interval
Z score
z-score
scorable
score off
score-off
score on oneself
score out
score points
score through
score up
unscored
Translations:
lang: Catalan
word: vintena
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 二十
roman: èrshí
lang: Danish
word: snes
lang: Esperanto
word: dudeko
lang: Estonian
word: kakskümmend
lang: Finnish
word: tiu
lang: Finnish
word: kaksikymmentä
lang: French
word: vingtaine
lang: German
word: Stiege
lang: Hindi
word: कोड़ी
roman: koṛī
lang: Irish
word: fiche
lang: Irish
word: scór
lang: Italian
word: ventina
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: snes
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: sneis
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: tjug
lang: Portuguese
word: vintena
lang: Russian
word: два деся́тка
roman: dva desjátka
lang: Russian
word: двадца́тка
roman: dvadcátka
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: fichead
lang: Sindhi
word: ڪوڙ
roman: korr
lang: Spanish
word: veintena
lang: Swedish
word: tjog
lang: Welsh
word: ugain
lang: Finnish
word: keikka
lang: Finnish
word: poka
lang: Danish
word: score
lang: Dutch
word: scoren
lang: Estonian
word: skoorima
lang: Finnish
word: saada