Definitions for score

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Spelling: [skawr, skohr]

IPA: /skɔr, skoʊr/

Score is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 65 anagrams from letters in score (ceors).

Definitions for score

noun

1. the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
2. the total points or strokes made by one side, individual, play, game, etc.
3. an act or instance of making or earning a point or points.
4. Education, Psychology. the performance of an individual or sometimes of a group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol.
5. a notch, scratch, or incision; a stroke or line.
6. a notch or mark for keeping an account or record.
7. a reckoning or account so kept; tally.
8. any account showing indebtedness.
9. an amount recorded as due.
10. a line drawn as a boundary, the starting point of a race, a goal line, etc.
11. a group or set of 20:
12. scores, a great many:
13. a reason, ground, or cause:
14. Informal. the basic facts, point of progress, etc., regarding a situation: a successful move, remark, etc.
15. Music. a written or printed piece of music with all the vocal and instrumental parts arranged on staves, one under the other. the music itself. the music played as background to or part of a movie, play, or television presentation.
16. Slang. a success in finding a willing sexual partner; sexual conquest. a purchase or acquisition of illicit drugs, as heroin or cocaine. a single payoff obtained through graft by a police officer, especially from a narcotics violator. a successful robbery; theft. any success, triumph, happy acquisition, gift, or win. the victim of a robbery or swindle.

Idioms

1. pay off / settle a score, to avenge a wrong; retaliate:

verb (used with object)

1. to gain for addition to one's score in a game or match.
2. to make a score of:
3. to have as a specified value in points:
4. Education, Psychology. to evaluate the responses a person has made on (a test or an examination).
5. Music. to orchestrate. to write out in score. to compose the music for (a movie, play, television show, etc.)
6. Cookery. to cut ridges or lines into (meat, fish, etc.) with shallow slashes, usually in a diamond pattern, before cooking.
7. to make notches, cuts, marks, or lines in or on.
8. to record or keep a record of (points, items, etc.), by or as if by notches, marks, etc.; tally; reckon (often followed by up).
9. to write down as a debt.
10. to record as a debtor.
11. to gain, achieve, or win:
12. Slang. to obtain (a drug) illicitly. to steal. to acquire; be given.
13. to berate or censure:
14. to crease (paper or cardboard) so that it can be folded easily and without damage.

verb (used without object)

1. to make a point or points in a game or contest.
2. to keep score, as of a game.
3. to achieve an advantage or a success:
4. to make notches, cuts, lines, etc.
5. to run up a score or debt.
6. Slang. to succeed in finding a willing sexual partner; have coitus. to purchase or obtain drugs illicitly. to elicit and accept a bribe.

Origin of score

before 1100; (noun) Middle English; late Old English scora, score (plural; singular *scoru) group of twenty (apparently orig. notch) Old Norse skor notch; (v.) Middle English scoren to incise

Examples for score

Chiefly, we forgot the many, many problems there are with the bones—the book and score—to this show.

Yes, we do typically do better than Europe (and Canada, too, which is frequently awful on this score).

One more round of mead or ale and the score to the last comer.

The score was begun on August 12 and finished on October 24.

Sting took over the lead role to try to draw an audience, but his thumpingly inspirational score was already the hero of the show.

The texture of food is entitled to a score of 20 if it is perfect.

The higher your score, the more likely it is that you can lip-sync along to the “Checkers” Speech.

All the sales of sheep and lambs are by the "clad score" which contains twenty-one.

Finally, a score or so of films have been made of the story, some called A Christmas Carol and others, simply, Scrooge.

I played as heartily as I worked, but I studied with a will, too, and passed a score of mates.