score
English
urediEtymology
urediFrom Srednji Engleski score, skore, schore, from Stari Engleski scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Pra-Germanski *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Švedski skåra, Danski skår. Related to shear. (For twenty: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.)
Pronunciation
uredi- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: skôr, MFA(ključ): /skɔː/
- (General American) enPR: skôrʹ, MFA(ključ): /skɔɹ/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: skōrʹ, MFA(ključ): /sko(ː)ɹ/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) MFA(ključ): /skoə/
Audio (US): (file) - Rime: -ɔː(ɹ)
Noun
urediscore (plural scores)
- The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- The player with the highest score is the winner.
- The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!
- The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
- The test scores for this class were high.
- Twenty, 20 (number).
- 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."
- Some words have scores of meanings.
- 1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address, based on the signed "Bliss Copy"
- A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
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- A weight of twenty pounds.
- (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
- (music) The music of a movie or play.
- 2013 jun 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:
- 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.
- Subject.
- Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
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- But left the trade, as many more / Have lately done on the same score.
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- You act your kindness in Cydria's score.
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- A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
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- Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.
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- An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
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- He parted well, and paid his score.
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- (US, crime, slang) a criminal act, especifically:
- A robbery.
- Let's pull a score!
- A bribe paid to a police officer.
- An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
- He made a big score.
- A prostitute's client.
- A robbery.
- (US, vulgar, slang) A sexual conquest.
Synonyms
uredi- (prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client
Derived terms
urediTranslations
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Verb
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- (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
- 1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess[1]:
- 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.
- (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
- (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 50
- "Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did. After all, I've scored by it."
- To earn points in a game.
- It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.
- Pelé scores again!
- 2011 septembar 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport[2]:
- And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.
- To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
- 2004, Diane McGuinness, Early reading instruction: what science really tells us about how to teach reading
- At the end of first grade, the children scored 80 percent correct on this test, a value that remained unchanged through third grade.
- 2004, Diane McGuinness, Early reading instruction: what science really tells us about how to teach reading
- (slang) To acquire or gain.
- 1971, “Sister Morphine”, in Sticky Fingers, performed by The Rolling Stones:
- 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 scored some drugs last night.
- Did you score tickets for the concert?
- (US, crime, slang, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
- (vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor.
- Chris finally scored with Pat last week.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 50
- (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
- 1974, New York Magazine (volume 7, number 45, page 98)
- Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.
- 1974, New York Magazine (volume 7, number 45, page 98)
Derived terms
urediTranslations
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Interjection
urediscore!
- (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success
See also
urediReferences
uredi- Tom Dalzell, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, 2008, page 846
Anagrams
urediDanish
urediEtymology
urediPronunciation
urediNoun
urediscore c (singular definite scoren, plural indefinite scorer)
Declension
urediVerb
urediscore
- score a goal/point
- land (to acquire; to secure)
- (slang) steal
- persuade (someone) to have sex with oneself [from 1959]
Conjugation
urediDerived terms
urediDutch
urediEtymology
urediPronunciation
urediNoun
urediscore m (plural scores, diminutive scoretje n)
- score (number of points earned)
Derived terms
urediRelated terms
urediFrench
urediEtymology
urediPronunciation
urediNoun
urediscore m (plural scores)
- score (in a sport, game)
Derived terms
urediFurther reading
uredi- “score” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
urediNorwegian Bokmål
urediAlternative forms
urediEtymology
urediVia Engleski score, from Old Norse skor. Related to Old Norse skera (modern Norwegian Bokmål skjære).
Noun
urediscore m (definite singular scoren, indefinite plural scorer, definite plural scorene)
- a score
Verb
urediscore (imperative scor, present tense scorer, passive scores, simple past and past participle scora or scoret, present participle scorende)
- to score (earn points in a game)
Derived terms
urediReferences
uredi- “score” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- Šablon:R:Ordnett
Norwegian Nynorsk
urediAlternative forms
urediEtymology
urediNoun
urediscore m (definite singular scoren, indefinite plural scorar, definite plural scorane)
- a score
Verb
urediscore (present tense scorar, past tense scora, past participle scora, passive infinitive scorast, present participle scorande, imperative scor/score)
- to score (earn points in a game)
References
uredi- “score” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
urediEtymology
urediFrom
Noun
urediscore m (plural scores)
- score (in sports)