score
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7.8
- noun
- /skɔr/
- We're gonna have to crosscheck her entire class's scores.
Examples
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There are scores of intriguing, aphoristic lines to savor, like those above.
Academic text (2010) -
At least one of the criteria must be met by a qualifying score on a nationally normed standardized test.
Academic text (1997) -
We'll keep score from here.
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I want to keep the score close.
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So if you find score marks on the central conductor, then I would cut back and start again.
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I saw your test scores.
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Don't you even want to know the scores?
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The deep scores made by the Graver were forming parentheses around the wide, humorous mouth.
Fiction book (1994) -
The carpenter made a score on the wood to ensure a straight cut.
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After making a score on the paper, she found it easier to fold accurately.
Synonyms
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3.2
A written count of things like votes or donations
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9.9
A small cut on a surface used to count things
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5.8
A small chip or notch in the surface of something
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5.0
Small cuts or chips in a surface from use
Idioms
- Informal
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4.9
Understand what really happens in a situation, often when it is bad
- Archaic
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9.9
A way to say eighty-seven years ago, used by Abraham Lincoln at the start of the Gettysburg Address
Compounds
- Specialized
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3.7
Written music that shows all the parts for singers and instruments on separate lines
- Specialized
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5.4
A quick test on a newborn to check heart rate, breathing, skin colour, muscle tone, and reflexes
- Archaic
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9.9
Seventy years that people often use to mean a typical human lifespan
- Jargon
A number that compares weightlifting results for people with different body weights
How Deep
Surface Forms
Etymology
Score originally meant a small cut or 'notch' used to mark or count things, which is why we still call a light scratch or groove a score.