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Noun: score skor- A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
"what was your score on your homework?"; - mark, grade - 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"; - musical score - A number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
"the score was 7 to 0" - An amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
"add it to my score and I'll settle later" - A set of twenty members
"a score were sent out but only one returned" - The facts about an actual situation
"he didn't know the score" - A slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
"He made a score on the wood to mark where to cut"; - scotch [archaic] - A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
"settling a score"; - grudge, grievance - The act of scoring in a game or sport
"the winning score came with less than a minute left to play" - [slang] A seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
"calling his seduction of the girl a 'score' was a typical example of male slang"; - sexual conquest - Grounds
"he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful"; - account Verb: score skor- Gain points in a game
"The home team is scoring points"; - tally, rack up - Make small marks into the surface of
"score the clay before firing it"; - mark - Get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
"She scored high on the SAT"; "He scored a 200" - Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
"score the SAT essays"; - grade, mark - (music) write a musical score for
"The composer scored the film, enhancing its emotional impact" - Make underscoring marks
"She scored the important passages in the text"; - mark - [slang] Successfully get someone to be one's date or sex partner
"he scored last night"; - pull [Brit, slang] - [slang] Induce to have sex
"Did you score last night?"; - seduce, make [slang]
Derived forms: scored, scores, scoring Type of: accomplish, achieve, acrimoniousness, advance, appraise, apprise [Brit, archaic], apprize [archaic], assess, attain, bile, bitterness, compose, conquest, debt, enter, evaluate, evaluation, fact, forge ahead, gain, gain ground, gall, get ahead, ground, hard feelings, ill feeling, incision, make headway, measure, notch, number, occasion, persuade, prick, pull ahead, put down, rancor [US], rancour [Brit, Cdn], rating, reach, reason, record, resentment, scope, scratch, seduction, set, sheet music, slit, success, valuate [N. Amer], valuation, value, win, write Encyclopedia: Score |