The number of pointsaccrued by each of the participants in agame, expressed as aratio or a series of numbers.
Thescore is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!
The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; agrade.
The testscores for this class were high.
2018 June 13, Rory Smith, “IQ scores are falling and have been for decades, new study finds”, inCNN[1]:
The study not only showed IQ variance between children the same parents, but because the authors had the IQscores of various parents, it demonstrated that parents with higher IQs tended to have more kids, ruling out the dysgenic fertility theory as a driver of falling IQscores and highlighting the role of environmental factors instead.
Fourscore 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.
Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumpingscore 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.
1900, James George Frazer,The Golden Bough, volume 3, page306:
The local village priest is expected to pass through the Holi bonfire, which, in the opinion of the faithful, cannot burn him. Indeed he holds his land rent-free simply on thescore of his being fire-proof.
Anotch orincision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
Batman: Dangerous crowd you're stealing from. Catwoman: Jesus. Is this how you get your kicks, hon? Sneaking up on girls in the dark? Batman: Is that why you work in the club? It was all just ascore?
1975, John Seymour,The Companion Guide to the Coast of North-east England, page206:
Above the harbour, steeply up the hill, run The Bolts, narrow stepped passages, equivalent of TheScores of Lowestoft and The Rows of Great Yarmouth.
A document which systematically lists differences among compiled manuscripts of a source text.
2010, Daniel E. Fleming and Sara J. Milstein,The Buried Foundation of the Gilgamesh Epic, page 8:
Robson counted 92 exemplars of Gilgamesh and Huwawa A and 59 of Gilgamesh, Enkidu, and the Netherworld (“Tablet House,” 54). Since that time, several joins have reduced the number of distinct copies, so that Delnero’sscore for Gilgamesh and Huwawa A now includes 85 total, mostly of the Type III extract category (Variation in Sumerian Literary Compositions: A Case Study Based on the Decad, University of Pennsylvania Ph.D., 2006).
As a quantity, a score is counted as any other unit:ten score,twelve score,fourteen score, etc. (ortenscore,twelvescore). There is no word for 202; rather,twenty score is used, and twice thatforty score.
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 severalscored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].
The bakerscored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it.
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 toscore
1982, “Prowlin'”, in Domenic Bugatti, Frank Muskeer, Christopher Cerf (lyrics),Grease 2:
Gotta find a chick who'll give you more / Well, there's a spot that I've discovered / Where a guy's guaranteed toscore
2025 June 23, Caroline Kitchener, “The MTV Reality Star in Trump’s Cabinet Who Wants You to Have More Kids”, inThe New York Times[5],→ISSN:
A red-blooded American male who oncescored with reality TV stars, he [Sean Duffy] is now a devoted dad with his own chicken coop and beehives, publicly pledging his commitment to his wife and their old Chrysler minivan.
1974,New York Magazine, volume 7, number45, page98:
Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yetscored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.
2023 August 10, Adrian Horton, “Robbie Robertson, member of the Band, dies at age 80”, inThe Guardian, UK:
Robertsonscored several of Scorsese’s films, including Raging Bull, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman.
(horse racing,ambitransitive) To return (a horse and rider) to the starting-point repeatedly, until a fair start is achieved.
1878, John H. Wallace,Wallace's Monthly, volume 4, page18:
[…] and thescoring for a start by these "inferior" horses would kill a thoroughbred. As an instance, in the 2:27 race at Cleveland, last summer, twelve horsesscored seventeen times before they got a fair start.
According toRoyal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor,A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published1867,page94
