'Scoring' definitions:

Definition of 'scoring'

From: WordNet
noun
Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do" [syn: marking, grading, scoring]

Definition of 'Scoring'

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]

Definition of 'Scoring'

From: GCIDE
  • Scorn \Scorn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Scorned (sk[^o]rnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Scoring.] [OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF. escarnir, escharnir. See Scorn, n.]
  • 1. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. [1913 Webster]
  • I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful. --C. J. Smith. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. [1913 Webster]
  • His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See Contemn. [1913 Webster]

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