score

Meanings

Noun

• The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
• The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
• The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
• Twenty, 20.
• An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
• A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
• A weight of twenty pounds.
• The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
• The music of a movie or play.
• Subject.
• Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
• A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
• An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
• a criminal act, especially:
• A sexual conquest.

Verb

• To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
• To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
• To obtain something desired.
• To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.

Interjection

• Acknowledgement of success

Related

Similar words

• groove, notch
• keep, score, tally
• shake down
• pull
• soundtrack

Origin

• From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru ("notch; tally; score"), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō ("incision; tear; rift"), which is related to *skeraną.
• Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
• (For twenty: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.)