line score
- noun
- /laɪn skɔr/
- US
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marcador
- Can you check the line score for the last game?
Examples
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The newspaper published the line score for last night's baseball game.
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The line score showed that the home team won.
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After the match, fans checked the line score to see how each inning played out.
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On the scoreboard, the line score showed the home team leading after seven innings.
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The official line score showed that the home team scored three points in the first quarter.
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During the game, the announcer updated the line score after each period to inform the viewers.
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Fans eagerly checked the line score to see how their favorite team was performing throughout the match.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The element 'score' clearly signals points and 'line' can denote a row or sequence, so a learner might guess this refers to a way the score is presented. However, the specific meaning — a per-period/tabular summary of runs or points (e.g. by inning or quarter) used in sports — is a specialized, domain-specific usage that is not fully predictable from the constituents alone. Because the relation is partially clear but requires sports knowledge or exposure, it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
The noun line score comes from old game score sheets where each team had a row, the line, and the numbers for each inning or 'period' showed the score across it. Seeing that row of numbers gives a quick view of the 'runs' or 'points' in each 'period', so today line score means that simple summary of how each team scored.
