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”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear. (For twenty: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.)

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• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)

score (plural scores)

1. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.

   The player with the highest score is the winner.

2. 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!

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

6. A weight of twenty pounds.
8. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
9. (music) The music of a movie or play.
   • 2013 June 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.

10. Subject.
    • 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 245e.

      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.

11. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
    • (Can we date this quote by Hudibras and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

      But left the trade, as many more / Have lately done on the same score.

    • (Can we date this quote by Dryden and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

      You act your kindness in Cydria's score.

12. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
    • 1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:

      Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.

13. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
    • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene viii]:

      He parted well, and paid his score.

14. (US, crime, slang) a criminal act, especifically:
    1. A robbery.

       Let's pull a score!

    2. A bribe paid to a police officer.
    3. An illegal sale, especially of drugs.

       He made a big score.

    4. A prostitute's client.
15. (US, vulgar, slang) A sexual conquest.

• (prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client

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(Terms derived from score (noun)):

• by the score
• film score
• fourscore
• go off at score
• no-score draw
• on this score
• on what score
• outscore
• overscore
• scorecard
• score draw
• scoreless
• scores
• scores of
• threescore
• three score and ten
• underscore

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1. (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.

2. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
3. (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."

   1. To earn points in a game.

      It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.

      Pelé scores again!

      • 2011 September 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.

   2. 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.

   3. (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?

   4. (US, crime, slang, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
   5. (vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor.

      Chris finally scored with Pat last week.

4. (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.

• (to cut a groove in a surface): groove, notch
• (to record the score): keep, score, tally
• (to earn points in a game):
• (to achieve a score in a test):
• (to acquire or gain): come by, earn, obtain; see also Thesaurus:receive
• (to extract a bribe): shake down
• (to obtain a sexual favor): pull
• (to provide with a musical score): soundtrack

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Derived terms

• scorable

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• score off, score-off
• unscored

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score!

1. (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success

• grade

• Tom Dalzell, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, 2008, page 846

• Corse, Crose, Secor, Sorce, ceros, cores, corse, creos, ocres

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Borrowed from English score.

• IPA^(key): /skoːrə/, [ˈsɡ̊oːɐ]

score c (singular definite scoren, plural indefinite scorer)

1. A score, a number of points earned.

score

1. score a goal/point
2. land (to acquire; to secure)
3. (slang) steal
4. persuade (someone) to have sex with oneself [from 1959]

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Borrowed from English score.

• IPA^(key): /ˈskoː.rə/

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• Hyphenation: sco‧re

score m (plural scores, diminutive scoretje n)

1. score (number of points earned)

• scorebord

• scoren

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Borrowed from English score.

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score m (plural scores)

1. score (in a sport, game)

• scorer

• “score”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• corse, Corse
• ocres

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• (of noun) skår
• (of verb) skåre

Via English score, from Old Norse skor. Related to Old Norse skera (modern Norwegian Bokmål skjære).

score m (definite singular scoren, indefinite plural scorer, definite plural scorene)

1. a score

score (imperative scor, present tense scorer, passive scores, simple past and past participle scora or scoret, present participle scorende)

1. to score (earn points in a game)

• scorer
• scoring
• scoringsposisjon
• scoringssjanse

• “score” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “score” in The Ordnett Dictionary

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• (of noun) skår
• (of verb) skåre, skåra
• (of verb) scora

From English score

score m (definite singular scoren, indefinite plural scorar, definite plural scorane)

1. a score

score (present tense scorar, past tense scora, past participle scora, passive infinitive scorast, present participle scorande, imperative score/scor)

1. to score (earn points in a game)

• “score” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English score.

score m (plural scores)

1. score (in sports)