Definition of score

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Score (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket..

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Score :: Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..
Score :: Score (n.) The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts..
Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Score :: Score (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number..
Peg :: Peg (v. t.) To score with a peg, as points in the game; as, she pegged twelwe points..
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..
Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
Score :: Score (n.) A weight of twenty pounds.
Score :: Score (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness..
Eighty :: Eighty (a.) Eight times ten; fourscore.
Score :: 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..
Tally :: Tally (n.) Hence, any account or score kept by notches or marks, whether on wood or paper, or in a book; especially, one kept in duplicate..
Hogscore :: Hogscore (n.) A distance lime brawn across the rink or course between the middle line and the tee.
Understroke :: Understroke (v. t.) To underline or underscore.
Hundred :: Hundred (n.) The product of ten mulitplied by ten, or the number of ten times ten; a collection or sum, consisting of ten times ten units or objects; five score. Also, a symbol representing one hundred units, as 100 or C..
Love :: Love (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc..
Dictyogen :: Dictyogen (n.) A plant with net-veined leaves, and monocotyledonous embryos, belonging to the class Dictyogenae, proposed by Lindley for the orders Dioscoreaceae, Smilaceae, Trilliaceae, etc..
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..
Tabling :: Tabling (n.) The letting of one timber into another by alternate scores or projections, as in shipbuilding..
Twenty :: Twenty (n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score..
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