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score c (singular definite scoren, plural indefinite scorer)

scoren (definite singular)
scorer (indefinite plural)
score (indefinite nominative singular)
scoren (definite nominative singular)
scorer (indefinite nominative plural)
scores (indefinite nominative plural)
scorerne (definite nominative plural)
scores (genitive indefinite singular)
scorens (definite genitive singular)
scorers (genitive indefinite plural)
scores' (genitive indefinite plural)
scorernes (definite genitive plural)


score

persuade (someone) to have sex with oneself

scorer (present)
scorede (past)
har scoret (perfect present)
havde scoret (past perfect)
scores (passive present)
scoredes (passive past)
scorende (participle present)
scoret (participle past)
scor (imperative present)
score (infinitive present)
have (auxiliary present)


score

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score m (plural scores, diminutive scoretje n)

scores (plural)
scoretje (diminutive neuter)


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The player with the highest score is the winner.

The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.

The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!

The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.

The test scores for this class were high.

The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.

At Markes full fortie score they vs'd to Prick and Roue.

1612, Michael Drayton, chapter 26, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:

A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.

DEVLIN:You know the apple and core. Head might cost you a score, or more if you want a meat show on all fours.

2012 September 9, “Deepest Shame (New Machine Remix)”, performed by w:Plan B (musician),Chip,Devlin:

(British, slang) Twenty pounds sterling.

Some words have scores of meanings.

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

1863 November 19, Abraham Lincoln, Dedicatory Remarks (Gettysburg Address)^(https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address_(Bliss_copy)), near Soldiers' National Cemetery, →LCCN, Bliss copy, page 1:

I went on trying for fish along the western bank down the river, but only small trout rose at my flies, and a score was the total catch.

1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 152:

(often in the plural) A great deal; many, several.

Use a few “introductory plays” to become known to a casino before you go for a big score.

2013, Arnold Snyder, Big Book of Blackjack:

(gambling) An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.

(music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.

Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.

2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55:

Well, although we haven't discussed the views of all those who make precise reckonings of being and not [being], we've done enough on that score.

2005, Plato, translated by Lesley Brown, Sophist, page 245e:

But left the trade, as many more / Have lately done on the same score.

1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:

You act your kindneſs on Cydaria’s ſcore.

1665 (first performance), John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards. […], London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for H[enry] Herringman […], published 1667, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, page 65:

The local village priest is expected to pass through the Holi bonfire, which, in the opinion of the faithful, cannot burn him. Indeed he holds his land rent-free simply on the score of his being fire-proof.

1900, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 306:

An account; a reason; a motive; a sake; a behalf.

Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vii]:

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

He parted well, and paid his score.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene viii]:

An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.

Let's pull a score!

Batman: Dangerous crowd you're stealing from.
Catwoman: Jesus. Is this how you get your kicks, hon? Sneaking up on girls in the dark?
Batman: Is that why you work in the club? It was all just a score?

2022, Matt Reeves, Peter Craig, The Batman:

(US, slang, crime) A criminal act, especially:

A criminal act, especially:
A bribe paid to a police officer.

He made a big score.

A criminal act, especially:
An illegal sale, especially of drugs.

A criminal act, especially:
A prostitute's client.

Ah, who gives a shit? The only score I'm interested in is the one I might make if some foxy chicks start pilin' outta there.

1976, William C. Thomas, Cat Murkil and the Silks, spoken by Punch:

(originally US, vulgar, slang) A sexual conquest.

Above the harbour, steeply up the hill, run The Bolts, narrow stepped passages, equivalent of The Scores of Lowestoft and The Rows of Great Yarmouth.

1975, John Seymour, The Companion Guide to the Coast of North-east England, page 206:

(UK, regional) In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.

черта́

notch or incision, especially one made as tally mark

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

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 (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.


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A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…].

1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

The baker scored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it.

(transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.

(intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.

It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.

Pelé scores again!

And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.

2011 September 29, Jon Smith, “Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers”, in BBC Sport:

(transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.

To obtain something desired.
To earn points in a game.

At the end of first grade, the children scored 80 percent correct on this test, a value that remained unchanged through third grade.

2004, Diane McGuinness, Early reading instruction: what science really tells us about how to teach reading:

No, Butthead, that's my point. You didn't score. You got a zero.

1996 March 5, Mike Judge, “Substitute”, in Beavis and Butthead, season 6, episode 18, Mr. Van Driessen (actor):

To achieve academic credit on a test, quiz, homework, assignment, or course.

[…] he scored big by hitting the jack pot at the Bellagio (he won $7,000). The next day, he won $15,000 on the nickel machines at the Palm Casino!

2005, Shannon Nash, For the Love of Money, page 215:

To obtain something desired.
To win money by gambling.

What am I doing in this place? / Why does the doctor have no face? / Oh, I can't crawl across the floor / Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score

1971, Jagger–Richards, Marianne Faithfull (lyrics and music), “Sister Morphine”, in Sticky Fingers, performed by The Rolling Stones:

I jump up, bubble up, what's in store? / Love is the drug and I need to score

1975, Andy Mackay, Bryan Ferry (lyrics and music), “Love Is the Drug”, performed by Roxy Music:

I scored some drugs last night.

Did you score tickets for the concert?

To obtain something desired.
To acquire or gain.

(US, crime, slang, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.

To obtain something desired.
To extract a bribe.

Chris finally scored with Pat last week.

Gotta find a chick who'll give you more / Well, there's a spot that I've discovered / Where a guy's guaranteed to score

1982, “Prowlin'”, in Domenic Bugatti, Frank Muskeer, Christopher Cerf (lyrics), Grease 2:

(vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor.

To obtain something desired.
To obtain a sexual favor.

"Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did. After all, I've scored by it."

1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “chapter 50”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC:

Critics scored the game 92%.

this was the case for most students, who scored it highly (medians of 4 with many scores of 5)

2007, Cross-Cultural Urban Design: Global or Local Practice?, page 197:

(transitive) To rate; to evaluate the quality of.

Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.

1974, New York Magazine, volume 7, number 45, page 98:

Robertson scored several of Scorsese’s films, including Raging Bull, Casino, The Wolf of Wall Street and The Irishman.

2023 August 10, Adrian Horton, “Robbie Robertson, member of the Band, dies at age 80”, in The Guardian, UK:

(transitive, music, film) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.

en-verb

score (third-person singular simple present scores, present participle scoring, simple past and past participle scored)

scores (present singular third-person)
scoring (participle present)
scored (participle past)
scored (past)
score (infinitive)

→⇒ Irish: scóráil

записвам резултата

to record the score for a game or a match

soitintaa

to provide a film, etc. with a musical score


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(US, slang) An acknowledgement of success.


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→ Romanian: scor n


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English: score

Yola: score

Inherited from Old English scoru, from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō.


score

scoren (definite singular)
scorer (indefinite plural)
scorene (definite plural)

Via English score, from Old Norse skor. Related to Old Norse skera (modern Norwegian Bokmål skjære).


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score (imperative scor, present tense scorer, passive scores, simple past and past participle scora or scoret, present participle scorende)

scor (imperative)
scorer (present)
scores (passive)
scora (participle past)
scora (past)
scoret (participle past)
scoret (past)
scorende (participle present)


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scoren (definite singular)
scorar (indefinite plural)
scorane (definite plural)

Borrowed from English score. Doublet of skòr.


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scorar (present)
scora (past)
scora (participle past)
scorast (infinitive passive)
scorande (participle present)
score (imperative)
scor (imperative)


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An aar was a hundereth lauckeen vowre score.

1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 1, page 94:

And there was a hundred, lacking four score;

Aar was Parick o Dearmoth, an dhen score besidh,

1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 94:

There was Patrick o Deormod, and ten score beside,

Th'ar was a hunnert, lackin a score,

1867, “DR. RUSSELL ON THE INHABITANTS AND DIALECT OF THE BARONY OF FORTH”, in APPENDIX, page 130:

From Middle English score, from Old English scoru.