"keep score" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: keeps score [present, singular, third-person], keeping score [participle, present], kept score [participle, past], kept score [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|keep<,,kept> score}} keep score (third-person singular simple present keeps score, present participle keeping score, simple past and past participle kept score)
  1. (sports, games) To keep track of the score in a game. Categories (topical): Games, Sports Related terms: scorekeeper
    Sense id: en-keep_score-en-verb-3wHf1FKL Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Topics: games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
  2. (by extension, figuratively) To keep track of figures, numbers or other details in various other contexts. Tags: broadly, figuratively
    Sense id: en-keep_score-en-verb-d7np3kdm Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 52 48 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50
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          "text": "I've been praying on my own since very, very young [...] but it \"degenerated\" in me talking to God direct [...] and asking various things for others, sometimes for myself. It worked very often but I never kept score.",
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