| score /skör or skōr/ nountransitive verbA notch, gash, or scratchAn incised lineA boldly drawn line, esp one marking a deletionA line marking a boundary, starting-place, or defined positionAn arrangement of music on a number of staves (perh orig with the bar divisions running continuously through all)A composition so distributedMusic for a film, television or radio play or the music and songs for a stage or film musicalA notch in a tallyAn account of charges incurred (as in a tavern) by tallies or (later) chalk marks or the likeA debt incurredA reckoning, accountA grievance, grudgeThe full totalThe total or record of points made in a gameAn addition made theretoThe result of a test or examination (N American)A successful attempt to obtain drugs for illegal use (slang)A set of twenty (sometimes verging upon numeral adj)(in pl) applied also to an indefinitely large numberTwenty or twenty-one pounds in weightA distance of twenty paces (obsolete)A fixed number (20 to 26) of tubs of coal
 intransitive verbTo mark with or by scoresTo record in or with a scoreTo make a score through as a mark of deletion (with out or through)To write as a score (music)To break down (a musical composition) into parts for individual (groups of) instruments, and write the appropriate musicTo make as a scoreTo add to a scoreTo achieveTo enumerateTo recordTo mark (a test or examination) (N American)To rebuke or criticize harshly (N American)
 To keep or run up a scoreTo make a pointTo achieve a successTo be worth a certain number of pointsTo keep a record of points gained during a game(of a man) to succeed in having sexual intercourse (slang)To obtain illegal drugs (slang)
 ORIGIN: Late OE scoru, from ON skor, skora; cf OE sceran (pap scoren) to shear scoreˈless  adjective scorˈer  noun  A person who or thing that scores scorˈing  noun The act of scoringOrchestration
 scoreˈboard or scoring board  noun  A board on which the score is exhibited, as at cricket scoreˈcard, scoring card or scoreˈsheet  noun  A card or sheet, for recording the score in a game score draw  noun (esp football) A drawn match in which both teams have scored at least once scoreˈline  noun  A score in a match, etc go off at score (old) To make a spirited start know the score  To know the hard facts of the situationTo know what is required, without having to be told
 on that score  As regards that matter over the score (informal)  Beyond reasonable limitsUnfair
 pay off (or settle) old scores  To deal decisively with old grudges run up a score  To run up a debt score an own goal (informal) To do something unintentionally to one's own disadvantage score off or score points off (informal) To achieve a success against, get the better of |