Definition of score

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

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Score :: Score (v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) The product of four times twenty; eighty units or objects.
Eighty :: Eighty (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.
Score :: Score (n.) A weight of twenty pounds.
Tie :: Tie (v. i.) To make a tie; to make an equal score.
Tally :: Tally (n.) Originally, a piece of wood on which notches or scores were cut, as the marks of number; later, one of two books, sheets of paper, etc., on which corresponding accounts were kept..
Produce :: Produce (v. t.) To draw out; to extend; to lengthen; to prolong; as, to produce a man's life to threescore..
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Sulcation :: Sulcated (a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem..
Crescendo :: Crescendo (a. & adv.) With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score..
Game :: Game (v. i.) In some games, a point credited on the score to the player whose cards counts up the highest..
Table :: Table (v. t.) To insert, as one piece of timber into another, by alternate scores or projections from the middle, to prevent slipping; to scarf..
Scorer :: Scorer (n.) One who, or that which, scores..
Twenty :: Twenty (n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score..
Set :: Set (n.) A series of as many games as may be necessary to enable one side to win six. If at the end of the tenth game the score is a tie, the set is usually called a deuce set, and decided by an application of the rules for playing off deuce in a game. See Deuce..
Ninescore :: Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty..
Goal :: Goal (n.) A base, station, or bound used in various games; in football, a line between two posts across which the ball must pass in order to score; also, the act of kicking the ball over the line between the goal posts..
Score :: Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..
Sixscore :: Sixscore (a. & n.) Six times twenty; one hundred and twenty.
Sixty :: Sixty (a.) Six times ten; fifty-nine and one more; threescore.
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