score

(skôr)

1. Sports & Games

a. A usually numerical record of a competitive event: keeping score.

b. The total number of points made by each competitor or side in a contest, either final or at a given stage: The score stood tied in the bottom of the ninth inning.

c. The number of points attributed to a competitor or team.

2. A result, usually expressed numerically, of a test or examination.

a. An amount due; a debt.

b. A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction: settle an old score.

4. A ground; a reason: You have nothing to worry about on that score.

5. A group of 20 items.

6. scores Large numbers: Scores of people attended the rally.

7. Music

a. The notation of a musical work.

b. The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.

c. The music written for a film or a play.

8. Slang

a. The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain: "He had dropped out of school and gone for that quick dollar, that big score" (Peter Goldman).

b. The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.

c. A successful robbery.

d. An instance of having sexual intercourse with a desired partner.

9. A notch or incision, especially one that is made to keep a tally.

v. scored, scor·ing, scores

v.tr.

1. To achieve or accomplish: scored a success in the play.

2. Sports & Games

a. To achieve or gain in a game or contest: score a touchdown.

b. To count or be worth as points: A basket scores two points.

c. To keep a written record of the score or events of (a game or contest).

d. Baseball To cause (a base runner) to cross home plate, especially by getting a hit: scored both runners with a double.

3. To evaluate and assign a grade to: score a test.

4. Music

a. To orchestrate (a piece of music).

b. To arrange for a specific instrument.

5. To criticize cuttingly; berate.

6. Slang

a. To succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.

b. To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug): "Aging punks try to impress her with tales of ... the different drugs they've scored" (Art Jahnke).

a. To mark (a piece of paper or wood, for example) with lines or notches, especially for the purpose of keeping a record.

b. To cancel or eliminate by superimposing lines.

c. To mark the surface of (meat, for example) with usually parallel cuts.

v.intr.

1. Sports & Games

a. To make a point or points in a game or contest.

b. To record the score or progress of a game or contest.

2. Slang

a. To achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup: "They ... score in places like the bond market" (Mike Barnicle).

b. To succeed in having sexual relations with a desired partner.

c. To succeed in buying or obtaining an illicit drug.

[Middle English, crack, scratch, tally stick, tally of twenty, from Old English scoru (attested only in the sense "twenty"), from Old Norse skor, notch, tally stick, tally of twenty; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

scor′er n.

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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:

Noun	1.	scorer - a player who makes a score in a game or contest player, participant - a person who participates in or is skilled at some game
	2.	scorer - a logger who marks trees to be felled faller, feller, logger, lumberjack, lumberman - a person who fells trees
	3.	scorer - an official who records the score during the progress of a game scorekeeper official - someone who administers the rules of a game or sport; "the golfer asked for an official who could give him a ruling"

Translations

الشَّخْص الذي يُسَجِّل عَدَد الأهْدافمُسَجِّل الأهْداف

zapisovačzapisovač stavu

målscorerpointførerpointscorer

Anschreiber Torschütze

encargado del marcador goleador persona que lleva el marcador

buteur marqueur

pontozópontszerző

skoraristigateljari

marcatore segnapunti

målskårer

zapisovateľ výsledkov

golcüpuan kaydedicisayı tutucusayı/gol vb. yapan kimse

得分者记分员

scorer

[ˈskɔːrəʳ] N (= person keeping score) → persona f que va apuntando los resultados; (= player) (also goal scorer) → él/la m/f que marca un gol
he is top scorer in the league → es el principal goleador en la liga, ha marcado más goles que ningún otro en la liga
the scorers were Juan and Pablo → marcaron los goles Juan y Pablo

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scorer

[ˈskɔːrə^r] n

(in football) → buteur/euse m; (in rugby, cricket, basketball) → marqueur/euse m/f

(keeping score) → marqueur/euse m/f

scorer

(Ftbl etc: = player) → Torschütze m → /-schützin f; to be the top scorer → die meisten Punkte machen; (Ftbl etc) → die meisten Tore schießen; Chelsea were the highest scorers → Chelsea schoss die meisten Tore; he is the leading scorer in the competition → er hat die meisten Punkte or (Ftbl) → Tore im Wettbewerb erzielt

= scorekeeper

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scorer

[ˈskɔːrəʳ] n (keeping score) → segnapunti m/f inv; (player) → marcatore/trice

score

(skoː) – plurals scores (after a number or a word signifying a quantity) score – noun

1. the number of points, goals etc gained in a game, competition etc. The cricket score is 59 for 3.

2. a written piece of music showing all the parts for instruments and voices. the score of an opera.

3. a set or group of twenty. There was barely a score of people there.

verb

1. to gain (goals etc) in a game etc. He scored two goals before half-time.

2. (sometimes with off or out) to remove (eg a name) from eg a list by putting a line through it. Please could you score my name off (the list)?; Is that word meant to be scored out?

3. to keep score. Will you score for us, please?

ˈscorer noun

1. a person who scores points, goals etc. Our team scored two goals – Smith and Brown were the scorers.

2. a person who writes down the score during eg a cricket match.

ˈscore-board noun

a usually large board on which the score is shown at a cricket match, a quiz-programme etc.

on that score

for that reason. He's perfectly healthy, so you don't need to worry on that score.

scores (of)

very many. She received scores of letters about her radio programme.

settle old scores

to get revenge for past wrongs. I have some old scores to settle with you.