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scoring, vbl. n.|ˈskɔərɪŋ| [f. score v. + -ing1.] 1. The action of the verb score in various senses; an instance of this.
1546St. Papers Hen. VIII, XI. 145 Mr Seymour who landed here yesternyght.., scapyng a scoryng, beyng chased furst by that knave cowerd Burley, and put in gret dawnger with the shot of a sacre. 1592Greene Disput. Hee & Shee Conny-c. F 4, Hearing how that poore woman did finde fault with his scoring, the Gentleman not only put her out of doores with⁓out wages, but would haue arrested her. 1698Plot Black-lead in Phil. Trans. XX. 183 [Called] by Dr. Merret, Nigrica Fabrilis, from its use in Scoring. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine ii. (1780), Assembler, to unite the several pieces of..a ship, as by..scarfing, scoring, tenenting, &c. 1801T. Busby Dict. Mus., Scoring, the art of forming a score by collecting and properly arranging under each other the several detached parts of any composition. 1851C. Box Cricketer's Man. (ed. 5) 51 Printed forms..for scoring are not procurable. Ibid. 53 The annexed score will serve to illustrate the principles of scoring. 1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. I. ii. xi. 201 Shall we go now and hear what the scoring says? 1885Athenæum 4 Apr. 446/1 The bold drawing and emphatic scoring of the graver. 1893F. F. Moore I Forbid Banns (1899) 109 Julian did not admire this ‘scoring’ on Bertha's part. 1904Daily Chron. 21 Nov. 7/2, I viewed the match from the pavilion behind the goal where all the scoring was done. 1922Jrnl. Experim. Psychol. V. 107 The scoring requires judgment. 1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 747/2 Scoring,..the preparation of the sound-script, in which are described all music and noises to be introduced into a motion-picture. 1952A. G. Wesman in N. E. Gronlund Readings in Measurement (1968) xx. 201 Many objective tests..are not very reliable, yet the scoring is by definition objective. 1967Daily Mirror 14 Aug. 9/1 This buying of heroin (‘scoring’ in junkie language) is being watched closely by London Drug Squad detectives. 1978Time 3 July 45/1 Warren stays with a picture through editing, mixing and scoring. 2. concr. Lines or figures scored.
1688Holme Armoury iii. iii. 94/1 Scoreing or Strick lines on the Canvice to sow straight. 1864Reader 13 Feb. 209/3 Sir Charles Nicholson..referred to the scorings of human or animal forms on rocks. 1890St. Nicholas Nov. 66/2 In the sandstone..the deep, broad scorings can be plainly seen. 3. attrib.: scoring block Card-playing, a pad of printed score-sheets; scoring board, a board on which the state of the score at a match or contest is shown; scoring-book, a book in which the scores of games are entered; scoring-booth, -box Cricket = score-box s.v. score n. 22; scoring-card = score-card (a) s.v. score n. 22; scoring engine Naut., a machine for scoring blocks; scoring iron (see quot. 1688); scoring-knife, a knife for marking turf; scoring machine = scoring engine; also, a machine for scoring cardboard for making boxes (Knight Dict. Mech. 1884); scoring-paper, (a) = score-paper s.v. score n. 22; (b) Mus. printed paper on which a musical score may be entered; scoring-sheet = score-sheet; scoring stroke Golf, a stroke in score-play; scoring-table Cricket, the table at which the scorer or scorers sit.
1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 375/2 Table..with drawer divided to take cards and bridge *scoring blocks, whist cards and markers, piquet scoring blocks and cards. 1933G. D. H. & M. Cole End of Ancient Mariner ii. 18 On the table stood a decanter, flanked with packs of cards and scoring-blocks.
1882Bell's Life 20 May 5/1 An excellent novelty was exhibited on the ground during the Oxford Match, and that was a patent *scoring board. 1894Times 16 July 8/1 The Scottish eight was at least nine points better than the scoring boards gave them credit for being. 1904P. F. Warner How We recovered Ashes iv. 60 The Melbourne Cricket Ground, with its..huge scoring-board.
1851F. Lillywhite Guide to Cricketers 71 ‘Lillywhite's Registered *Scoring Book’ will be found extremely useful to Clubs, for the purpose of keeping the exact averages of all the members. 1856‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Rural Sports iii. i. i. 490/2 (Cricket), Scoring-books (Lillywhite's). 1883F. M. Crawford Dr. Claudius vii, The little card-box and the scoring-book of the players.
1867F. Gale Public School Matches 29 And now let us go to the *scoring booth and get a ‘true and correct score to the end of the first innings’. 1960Cricketer Spring Annual 58/2, 1851 A scoring booth was on view in the Great Exhibition.
1877C. Box Eng. Game Cricket xxvi. 459 *Scoring box, a small enclosure, so situated as to command a full view of the play. 1908W. E. W. Collins Leaves from Old Country Cricketer's Diary xii. 201 When..I passed the scoring-box, en route for the pavilion, I found the small telegraph boy in the act of returning my score as sixty-nine.
1891W. G. Grace Cricket iii. 94 We kept in constant touch..posting the *scoring-card at the end of every day's play. 1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 386/1 Whist scoring cards. 1912A. A. Lilley Twenty-four Years of Cricket 124 No scoring-card could be invented to equal it in its completeness.
1839Ure Dict. Arts 147 The *scoring engine receives two blocks..and forms the groove round their longest diameters for the reception of their ropes or straps.
1688Holme Armoury iii. ix. 397/1 A *Scoaring Iron... With this..they Scoare and run Veines on the Leather.
1725Bradley's Fam. Dict. s.v. Green-plot, After the Lines are thus scored out with a sharp *Scoring-knife.
1845Encycl. Metrop. VIII. 298/1 Scoring the blocks..is performed by the *scoring Machine.
1851C. Box Cricketer's Man. (ed. 5) 53 Some clubs make it a rule to mark the number of ‘overs’ that each bowler gives, at the foot of the *scoring papers. 1851F. Lillywhite Guide to Cricketers 79 Scoring Papers, per dozen... 2/6. 1908G. B. Shaw Let. 27 May (1972) II. 788 You will only waste a good deal of scoring paper which you might employ far better by trying to deal, as Strauss does,..with the modern world in a crisp and powerful style.
1859in W. A. Bettesworth Walkers of Southgate (1900) v. 54 (caption) *Scoring Books and Sheets. 1891W. G. Grace in Outdoor Games 15 Scoring-sheet. Match played at Bilbery.
1857Hughes Tom Brown ii. viii, ‘How many runs?’ Away scamper three boys to the *scoring-table. |