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score
has definitions from the fields of music,mathematics,sport,fine art,business,sexuality,education
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[ verb ] (sport) gain points in a game
Examples "The home team scored many times" "He hit a home run" "He hit .300 in the past season" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)Then Robinson slammed a long double to left center to score both runners . The detailed rundown on the Kansas_City scoring in the sixth went like this : (The Dallas Morning News,...)A Texas halfback who does n't even know the team 's plays , Eldon_Moritz , ranks fourth in Southwest_Conference scoring after three games . In their first three games , the Longhorns have had the ball 41 times and scored 16 times , or 40 per_cent their total passing yardage in three games , 447 on 30 completions in 56 attempts , is only 22 yards short of their total passing yardage in 1959 , when they made 469 on 37 completions in 86 tries . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)The Twins tied the score in the sixth inning when Reno_Bertoia beat_out a high chopper to third_base and scored on Lenny_Green 's double to left . |
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[ noun ] (education) a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
Examples "she made good marks in algebra" "grade A milk" "what was your score on your homework?" Used in print (Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)For_example , the marksman gets 5 shots , but we take his score to be the number of shots before his first bull's-eye , that_is , 0 , 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ( or 5 , if he gets no bull's-eye ) . Related terms |
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[ verb ] make small marks into the surface of
Examples "score the clay before firing it" Used in print (Ann Carnahan, Nick Manero's Cook-out Barbeque...)- Score each frankfurter in four or five places about a third of the way through . (McCall's Needlework and Crafts, Spring-Summer,...)Back of clay scored or roughened for proper gripping surface . Bevel and score ends of clay piece A so_that they overlap about 1 2 '' and make even thickness . Join B to bottom of A , scoring and reinforcing with clay coil . Score plain side of C and leave in mold . |
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[ noun ] (music,fine art) a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
Synonyms Examples "he studied the score of the sonata" Used in print (Chicago Daily Tribune...)The concert opened with another big romantic score , Schumann's Overture_to_Manfred , which suffered fate , this time with orchestral thrusts to the Byronic point to keep it afloat . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)He injected more vitality into the score than it has revealed in many years . (The Providence Journal...)Such fascinating novelties in the score as the fugual treatment of `` On_the_Side_of_the_Angels '' and `` Politics_and_Poker '' were handled splendidly , and I thought Rudy_Bond and his band of tuneful ward-heelers made `` Little_Tin_Box '' even better than it was done by the New_York cast ; all the words of its clever lyrics came_through with perfect clarity . (High Fidelity, 11:10...)Steinberg seems to have gone directly back to the score , discounting tradition , and has built his performance on the intention to reproduce as faithfully as possible exactly what Brahms set_down on_paper . Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score , and he manages at_times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song . Related terms |
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[ noun ] a set of twenty members
Examples "a score were sent out but only one returned" Used in print (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)It was a real stimulant to a_lot of guys I know who have moved past the 2 - score year milestone . (The Christian Science Monitor,...)In an hour remembered for its almost rudderless movement , a score of jazz luminaries went before the cameras for lengthy periods . (John Michael Ray, "Rhode Island's Reactions...)No sympathy or admiration for Brown could be found in the Providence_Daily_Post , for the editor claimed that there were a score of men in the state_prison who were a_thousand times more deserving of sympathy . Related terms |
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[ noun ] (mathematics,sport) a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
Examples "the score was 7 to 0" Used in print (The Sun, [Baltimore],...)The Orioles tonight retained the distinction of being the only winless team among the eighteen Major-League_clubs as they dropped their sixth straight spring exhibition decision , this one to the Kansas_City Athletics by a score of 5 to 3 . (Rocky Mountains News, [Denver, Colorado],...)The Twins tied the score in the sixth inning when Reno_Bertoia beat_out a high chopper to third_base and scored on Lenny_Green 's double to left . Al_Smith 's 340 - blast over left in the fourth - his fourth homer of the campaign - tied the score and Carreon 's first major_league home_run in the fifth put the Sox back in_front . In the fifth , Wally_Post slashed a 2 - run homer off Bud_Daley , but by that time the score was 11 - 5 and it really did n't matter . |
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[ verb ] make underscoring marks
Synonyms Used in print (The New York Times,...)A_couple_of weeks ago , he scored a monstrous 12 on a par 5 hole . From the standpoint of the army of duffers , however , this was easily the most heartening exhibition they had had since Ben_Hogan fell upon evil ways during his heyday and scored an 11 in the Texas_open . (Frederick Mosteller et al., Probability with...)Thus we do not score the number of bull's-eyes , and the random_variable is not the number of successes . |
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[ noun ] grounds
Synonyms Examples "don't do it on my account" "the paper was rejected on account of its length" "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful" Used in print (Harold Rosenberg, "The Trial and Eichmann"...)At_any_rate , the substance of Eichmann 's testimony was that all his actions flowed_from his membership in the party and the SS , and though the Prosecutor did his utmost to prove actual personal hatred of Jews , his success on this score was doubtful and the anti-Semitic lesson weakened to_that_extent . Related terms |
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[ noun ] the facts about an actual situation
Examples "he didn't know the score" Used in print (William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)Even Mr._Miller himself seems uncertain on this score . Related terms |
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[ verb ] (music) write a musical score for
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[ noun ] (business) an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
Examples "add it to my score and I'll settle later" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (sport) the act of scoring in a game or sport
Examples "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play" |
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[ noun ] a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
Examples "holding a grudge" "settling a score" Related terms |
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[ noun ] (sexuality) a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
Synonyms Examples "calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang" |
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