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A set of twenty things is a score. Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address began "Four score and seven years ago." Four score means 4 times 20, so Lincoln could have just said "87 years ago," but it didn't have the same ring to it!

In a game, the score tells you the number of points each team has. In school, you can score or earn a number of points for every test or paper you turn in. That grade (or an accumulation of grades) is your class score. Score can also be used to describe the facts about an event or the components of a musical composition. So, when you ask, "What's the score?" you could be met with a variety of answers depending on the context!

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: score

1	n v	a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest gain points in a game
2	n v	a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages write a musical score for
3	n	grounds
4	v n	make underscoring marks a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
5	n	an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
6	n v	a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse induce to have sex
7	n	a set of twenty members

FULL DEFINITIONS OF: score

n a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest

“the score was 7 to 0”

Types:: show 17 types...; hide 17 types...; bowling score
the score in a bowling match; football score
the score in a football game; baseball score
the score of a baseball game; basketball score
the score in a basketball game; stroke
(golf) the unit of scoring in golf is the act of hitting the ball with a club; birdie
(golf) a score of one stroke under par on a hole; bogey
(golf) a score of one stroke over par on a hole; deficit
(sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing; double-bogey
(golf) a score of two strokes over par for a hole; duck, duck's egg
(cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman; eagle
(golf) a score of two strokes under par on a hole; double eagle
(golf) a score of three strokes under par on a hole; game
(games) the score at a particular point or the score needed to win; lead
(sports) the score by which a team or individual is winning; love
a score of zero in tennis or squash; match
the score needed to win a match; par
(golf) the standard number of strokes set for each hole on a golf course, or for the entire course

Type of:: number
a concept of quantity involving zero and units

n a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)

“what was your score on your homework?”

Synonyms:: grade, mark

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a numerical value assigned to a letter grade received in a course taken at a college or university multiplied by the number of credit hours awarded for the course; centile, percentile
(statistics) any of the 99 numbered points that divide an ordered set of scores into 100 parts each of which contains one-hundredth of the total; decile
(statistics) any of nine points that divided a distribution of ranked scores into equal intervals where each interval contains one-tenth of the scores; quartile
(statistics) any of three points that divide an ordered distribution into four parts each containing one quarter of the scores

Type of:: evaluation, rating, valuation
an appraisal of the value of something

n the act of scoring in a game or sport

“the winning score came with less than a minute left to play”

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in target shooting: a score made by hitting the center of the target; goal
a successful attempt at scoring; strike, ten-strike
a score in tenpins: knocking down all ten with the first ball; spare
a score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls; break, open frame
any frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or spare; safety
a score in American football; a player is tackled behind his own goal line; touchdown
a score in American football; being in possession of the ball across the opponents' goal line; field goal
a score in American football; a score made by kicking the ball between the opponents' goal posts; conversion
a successful free throw or try for point after a touchdown; run, tally
a score in baseball made by a runner touching all four bases safely; basket, field goal
a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop; hat trick
(sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.); break, break of serve
(tennis) a score consisting of winning a game when your opponent was serving; equalizer
a score that makes the match even; own goal
(soccer) a goal that results when a player inadvertently knocks the ball into the goal he is defending; extra point, point after, point after touchdown
in American football a point awarded for a successful place kick following a touchdown; earned run
a run that was not scored as the result of an error by the other team; unearned run
a run that was scored as a result of an error by the other team; rbi, run batted in
a run that is the result of the batter's performance

Type of:: success
an attainment that is successful

v gain points in a game

“The home team scored many times”

Synonyms:: hit, rack up, tally

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make a score (on a hole) equal to par; shoot
score; convert
score (a spare); convert
complete successfully; convert
score an extra point or points after touchdown by kicking the ball through the uprights or advancing the ball into the end zone; homer
hit a home run; kick
make a goal; eagle
shoot in two strokes under par; hole up
score a hole in one; ace
score an ace against; walk
obtain a base on balls; equalise, equalize, get even
compensate; make the score equal; get, have, make
achieve a point or goal; place-kick
score (a goal) by making a place kick

Type of:: advance, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, pull ahead, win
obtain advantages, such as points, etc.

v get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance

“She scored high on the SAT”

“He scored a 200”

Types:: test
achieve a certain score or rating on a test

Type of:: accomplish, achieve, attain, reach
to gain with effort

v assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation

“score the SAT essays”

Synonyms:: grade, mark

Type of:: appraise, assess, evaluate, measure, valuate, value
evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of

n 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”

Synonyms:: musical score

Type of:: sheet music
a musical composition in printed or written form

v write a musical score for

Types:: orchestrate
write an orchestra score for

Type of:: compose, write
write music

n grounds

“he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful”

Synonyms:: account

Type of:: ground, reason
a rational motive for a belief or action

n the facts about an actual situation

“he didn't know the score”

Type of:: fact
a piece of information about circumstances that exist or events that have occurred

v make underscoring marks

Synonyms:: mark

Types:: cancel, invalidate
make invalid for use

Type of:: enter, put down, record
make a record of; set down in permanent form

v make small marks into the surface of

“score the clay before firing it”

Synonyms:: mark, nock

: mark, pit, pock, scar
mark with a scar

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scratch the surface of; scotch
make a small cut or score into; scribe
score a line on with a pointed instrument, as in metalworking; line
mark with lines; reline
put new lines on; hatch
draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper; crisscross
mark with or consist of a pattern of crossed lines

Type of:: notch
cut or make a notch into

n a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)

Synonyms:: scotch

Type of:: dent, incision, prick, scratch, slit
a depression scratched or carved into a surface

n an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)

“add it to my score and I'll settle later”

Type of:: debt
money or goods or services owed by one person to another

n a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation

“settling a score”

Synonyms:: grievance, grudge

Type of:: bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour, resentment
a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will

n a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse

“calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang”

Synonyms:: sexual conquest

Types:: cuckoldry
the practice of making cuckolds; sexual conquests of married women

Type of:: conquest, seduction
an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

v induce to have sex

“Did you score last night?”

Synonyms:: make, seduce

: seduce
lure or entice away from duty, principles, or proper conduct

Type of:: persuade
cause somebody to adopt a certain position, belief, or course of action; twist somebody's arm

n a set of twenty members

“a score were sent out but only one returned”

Type of:: set
a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used

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