To score is defined as to earn points, especially in a game or sport, to have something be a success or to get something you've been hoping for or wishing for.
(verb)The score is the total number of points received by each team or player, the total amount of points you receive for something or the current or present status of a situation.
(noun)See score in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
Origin: ME < OE scoru < ON skor < IE base *(s)ker-, to cut > shear
transitive verb scored, scoring
Origin: ME scoren
intransitive verb
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See score in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
Origin:
Origin: Middle English
Origin: , from Old English scoru, twenty
Origin: , from Old Norse skor; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots
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