Definition of score

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Score (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally..

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Love :: Love (n.) Nothing; no points scored on one side; -- used in counting score at tennis, etc..
Music :: Music (n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
Tally :: Tally (n.) To score with correspondent notches; hence, to make to correspond; to cause to fit or suit..
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..
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..
Game :: Game (v. i.) That which is gained, as the stake in a game; also, the number of points necessary to be scored in order to win a game; as, in short whist five points are game..
Yam :: Yam (n.) A large, esculent, farinaceous tuber of various climbing plants of the genus Dioscorea; also, the plants themselves. Mostly natives of warm climates. The plants have netted-veined, petioled leaves, and pods with three broad wings. The commonest species is D. sativa, but several others are cultivated..
Scotch :: Scotch (v. t.) To cut superficially; to wound; to score.
Twenty :: Twenty (n.) The number next following nineteen; the sum of twelve and eight, or twice ten; twenty units or objects; a score..
Tick :: Tick (v. t.) To check off by means of a tick or any small mark; to score.
Fourscore :: Fourscore (n.) Four times twenty; eighty.
Ninescore :: Ninescore (a.) Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty..
Tally :: Tally (n.) A notch, mark, or score made on or in a tally; as, to make or earn a tally in a game..
Score :: Score (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
Score :: Score (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield..
Lurch :: Lurch (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
Score :: Score (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
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..
Partition :: Partition (v.) A score.
Tie :: Tie (v. t.) An equality in numbers, as of votes, scores, etc., which prevents either party from being victorious; equality in any contest, as a race..
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