'Score' definitions:
Definition of 'score'
From: WordNet
noun
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, score]
noun
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: score, musical score]
noun
A number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to 0"
noun
A set of twenty members; "a score were sent out but only one returned"
noun
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: score, account]
noun
The facts about an actual situation; "he didn't know the score"
noun
An amount due (as at a restaurant or bar); "add it to my score and I'll settle later"
noun
A slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally) [syn: score, scotch]
noun
A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, score, grievance]
noun
The act of scoring in a game or sport; "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play"
noun
A seduction culminating in sexual intercourse; "calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang" [syn: sexual conquest, score]
verb
Gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season" [syn: score, hit, tally, rack up]
verb
verb
Make underscoring marks [syn: score, mark]
verb
Write a musical score for
verb
Induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally" [syn: seduce, score, make]
verb
Get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance; "She scored high on the SAT"; "He scored a 200"
verb
Definition of 'Score'
From: GCIDE
- Score \Score\ (sk[=o]r), n. [AS. scor twenty, fr. sceran, scieran, to shear, cut, divide; or rather the kindred Icel. skor incision, twenty, akin to Dan. skure a notch, Sw. sk[*a]ra. See Shear.]
- 1. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account. [1913 Webster]
- Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness. [1913 Webster]
- He parted well, and paid his score. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. [1913 Webster]
- But left the trade, as many more Have lately done on the same score. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
- You act your kindness in Cydaria's score. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number. [1913 Webster]
- Amongst three or four score hogsheads. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- At length the queen took upon herself to grant patents of monopoly by scores. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A weight of twenty pounds. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
- 7. The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket. [1913 Webster]
- 8. A line drawn; a groove or furrow. [1913 Webster]
- 9. (Mus.) 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. --Moore (Encyc. of Music). [1913 Webster]
- 10. 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; as, a score of 98 in a civil service exam. [PJC]
- In score (Mus.), having all the parts arranged and placed in juxtaposition. --Smart.
- To quit scores, to settle or balance accounts; to render an equivalent; to make compensation. [1913 Webster]
- Does not the earth quit scores with all the elements in the noble fruits that issue from it? --South. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Score'
From: GCIDE
- Score \Score\, v. i.
- 1. To keep the score in a game; to act as scorer. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 2. To make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 3. To run up a score, or account of dues. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- 4. To succeed in finding a partner for sexual intercourse; to make a sexual conquest. [slang] [PJC]
- 5. To purchase drugs illegally. [slang] [PJC]
Definition of 'Score'
From: GCIDE
- Score \Score\ (sk[=o]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scored (sk[=o]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoring.]
- 1. To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash. [1913 Webster]
- Let us score their backs. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scored her white right hand. --M. Arnold. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge. [1913 Webster]
- Madam, I know when, Instead of five, you scored me ten. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
- Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To engrave, as upon a shield. [R.] --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game. [1913 Webster]
- 6. (Mus.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9. [1913 Webster]
- 7. (Geol.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'score'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- L,
- 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,
- Nachtmusik,
- 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,
- Sexagesima,
- 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,
- Vandyke,
- variation,
- version,
- victim,
- virgule,
- vocal score,
- vocation,
- watermark,
- well-worn groove,
- whole,
- win,
- word,
- work,
- work out,
- wrinkle,
- write,
- writing,
- written music,
- x number