score

Meanings

• a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
  • "what was your score on your homework?"
• a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
  • "he studied the score of the sonata"
• a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
  • "the score was 7 to 0"
• a set of twenty members
  • "a score were sent out but only one returned"
• grounds
  • "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful"
• the facts about an actual situation
  • "he didn't know the score"
• an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
  • "add it to my score and I'll settle later"
• a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
• a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
  • "settling a score"
• the act of scoring in a game or sport
  • "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play"
• a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
  • "calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang"
• gain points in a game
  • "The home team scored many times"
• make small marks into the surface of
  • "score the clay before firing it"
• make underscoring marks
• write a musical score for
• induce to have sex
  • "Did you score last night?"
• get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
  • "She scored high on the SAT"
  • "He scored a 200"
• assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
  • "score the SAT essays"

Synonyms

account, grade, grievance, grudge, hit, make, mark, musical score, nock, rack up, scotch, seduce, sexual conquest, tally