score
noun
[ skɔː ]
• the number of points, goals, runs, etc. achieved in a game or by a team or an individual.
• "the final score was 4–3 to Royston"
• a group or set of twenty or about twenty.
• "a score of men lost their lives in the battle"
• a written representation of a musical composition showing all the vocal and instrumental parts arranged one below the other.
• a notch or line cut or scratched into a surface.
• "check the shaft for scratches and scores"
Similar:
scratch,
nick,
notch,
snick,
scrape,
groove,
chip,
cut,
gouge,
incision,
slit,
gash,
mark,
scotch,
score
verb
• gain (a point, goal, run, etc.) in a competitive game.
• "McCartney scored a fine goal"
Similar:
get,
gain,
chalk up,
win,
achieve,
attain,
make,
record,
notch up,
bag,
knock up,
rack up,
• orchestrate or arrange (a piece of music), typically for a specified instrument or instruments.
• "the Quartet Suite was scored for flute, violin, viola da gamba, and continuo"
• cut or scratch a notch or line on (a surface).
• "score the card until you cut through"
Similar:
scratch,
cut,
make a notch/notches in,
make a groove/grooves in,
notch,
incise,
scrape,
nick,
snick,
chip,
gouge,
slit,
gash,
mark,
cross-hatch,
carve,
engrave,
scotch,
• examine (experimentally treated cells, bacterial colonies, etc.), making a record of the number showing a particular character.
• "the aim should be to score between fifty and one hundred mitotic cells"
Origin:
late Old English scoru ‘set of twenty’, from Old Norse skor ‘notch, tally, twenty’, of Germanic origin; related to shear. The verb (late Middle English) is from Old Norse skora ‘make an incision’.
score points
• outdo another person, especially in an argument.
• "politicians are always sniping at one another to score party points"
