1. the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.
2. the total points or strokes made by one side, individual, play, game, etc.
3. an act or instance of making or earning a point or points.
4. the performance of an individual or sometimes of a group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol.
5. a notch, scratch, or incision; a stroke or line.
6. a notch or mark for keeping an account or record.
7. a reckoning or account so kept; tally.
8. any account showing indebtedness.
9. an amount recorded as due.
10. a line drawn as a boundary, the starting point of a race, a goal line, etc.
11. a group or set of 20: about a score of years ago.
12. a great many: Scores of people were at the dance.
13. a reason, ground, or cause: to complain on the score of low pay.
14. Informal.
• the basic facts, point of progress, etc., regarding a situation: What's the score on Saturday's picnic?
• a successful move, remark, etc.
15. Music.
• a written or printed piece of music with all the vocal and instrumental parts arranged on staves, one under the other.
• the music itself.
• the music played as background to or part of a movie, play, or television presentation.
16. Slang.
• a success in finding a willing sexual partner; sexual conquest.
• a purchase or acquisition of illicit drugs, as heroin or cocaine.
• a single payoff obtained through graft by a police officer, especially from a narcotics violator.
• a successful robbery; theft.
• any success, triumph, happy acquisition, gift, or win.
• the victim of a robbery or swindle.

17. to gain for addition to one's score in a game or match.
18. to make a score of: He scored 98 on the test.
19. to have as a specified value in points: Four aces score 100.
20. to evaluate the responses a person has made on (a test or an examination).
21. Music.
• to orchestrate.
• to write out in score.
• to compose the music for (a movie, play, television show, etc.)
22. to cut ridges or lines into (meat, fish, etc.) with shallow slashes, usually in a diamond pattern, before cooking.
23. to make notches, cuts, marks, or lines in or on.
24. to record or keep a record of (points, items, etc.), by or as if by notches, marks, etc.; tally; reckon (often followed by up).
25. to write down as a debt.
26. to record as a debtor.
27. to gain, achieve, or win: The play scored a great success.
28. Slang.
• to obtain (a drug) illicitly.
• to steal.
• to acquire; be given.
29. to berate or censure: The newspapers scored the mayor severely for the announcement.
30. to crease (paper or cardboard) so that it can be folded easily and without damage.

31. to make a point or points in a game or contest.
32. to keep score, as of a game.
33. to achieve an advantage or a success: The new product scored with the public.
34. to make notches, cuts, lines, etc.
35. to run up a score or debt.
36. Slang.
• to succeed in finding a willing sexual partner; have sexual intercourse.
• to purchase or obtain drugs illicitly.
• to elicit and accept a bribe.

37. to avenge a wrong; retaliate: In the Old West they paid off a score with bullets.

1. an evaluative, usually numerical, record of a competitive game or match
2. the total number of points made by a side or individual in a game or match
3. the act of scoring, esp a point or points
4. the actual situation; the true facts
5. the result of a test or exam
6. a group or set of twenty
7. a great number; lots
8. music
• the written or printed form of a composition in which the instrumental or vocal parts appear on separate staves vertically arranged on large pages (full score) or in a condensed version, usually for piano (short score) or voices and piano (vocal score)
• the incidental music for a film or play
• the songs, music, etc, for a stage or film musical
9. a mark or notch, esp one made in keeping a tally
10. an account of amounts due
11. an amount recorded as due
12. a reason or account
13. a grievance
• a line marking a division or boundary
• (as modifier)
15. the victim of a theft or swindle
16. notation indicating a dancer's moves
17. excessive; unfair
18. settle a score or pay off a score
• to avenge a wrong
• to repay a debt

19. to gain (a point or points) in a game or contest
20. to make a total score of
21. to keep a record of the score (of)
22. to be worth (a certain amount) in a game
23. to evaluate (a test or exam) numerically; mark
24. to record by making notches in
25. to make (cuts, lines, etc) in or on
26. to obtain something desired, esp to purchase an illegal drug
27. (of a man) to be successful in seducing a person
28. (tr)
• to set or arrange (a piece of music) for specific instruments or voices
• to write the music for (a film, play, etc)
29. to achieve (success or an advantage)
30. to criticize harshly; berate
31. to accumulate or keep a record of (a debt)

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