a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
"he studied the score of the sonata"
a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
"the score was 7 to 0"
the act of scoring in a game or sport
"the winning score came with less than a minute left to play"
a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
"calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang"
The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
"After the final buzzer, the team celebrated their impressive score of ninety-five to sixty."
In plain English: A score is a number of points you get when you win a game or complete a task.
"The football team came back from behind to win by a score of twenty-eight to fourteen."
write a musical score for
"The conductor asked the composer to quickly score the new opera for a full orchestra before rehearsals began."
get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
"She scored high on the SAT"
"He scored a 200"
To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
"The woodworker carefully scored the grain of the oak before splitting it to ensure a clean break."
In plain English: To score means to successfully get something, like points in a game or a goal for your team.
"He managed to score a goal during the game."
Usage: Use this verb when describing the physical act of cutting lines into wood, metal, or other materials to mark measurements or create patterns. It is often confused with scratch, but scoring involves making deliberate, shallow grooves rather than random abrasions.
Acknowledgement of success
"After finally landing the client she had been chasing for months, Sarah sent out a celebratory email to her team as a score."
The word score comes from Old English scoru, meaning "notch" or "tally," which originally referred to marks cut into wood to count livestock. This practice of making notches evolved in Middle English to represent the specific number twenty, as drovers would notch a tally stick once for every twenty animals they counted.