Score Definition
skôr
scored, scores, scoring
noun
scores
A scratch, mark, incision, etc.
Scores made on ice by skates.
Webster's New World
A usually numerical record of a competitive event.
Keeping score.
American Heritage
A line drawn or scratched, often to mark a starting point, etc.
Webster's New World
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.
American Heritage
An amount or sum due; account; debt.
Webster's New World
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verb
scored, scores, scoring
To achieve or accomplish.
Scored a success in the play.
American Heritage
To crease or partly cut (cardboard, paper, etc.) for accurate folding or tearing.
Webster's New World
To keep the score, as of a game.
Webster's New World
To be rated by one's score on a test.
Webster's New World
To gain an advantage.
Webster's New World
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Origin of Score
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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 sker-1 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From the Old English scora (“notch") (hence, a tally). (For twenty: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.)
From Wiktionary
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