1. A notch or incision, especially one that is made to keep a tally.
2. Sports & Games A usually numerical record of a competitive event: keeping score.
3. Sports & Games The total number of points made by each competitor or side in a contest, either final or at a given stage: The score stood tied in the bottom of the ninth inning.
4. Sports & Games The number of points attributed to a competitor or team.
5. A result, usually expressed numerically, of a test or examination.
6. an amount due; a debt.
7. A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction: settle an old score.
8. A ground; a reason.
9. A group of 20 items.
10. large numbers: scores of people attended the rally.
11. music the notation of a musical work.
12. music the written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.
13. music the music written for a film or a play.
14. slang the act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain: "he had dropped out of school and gone for that quick dollar, that big score” ( peter goldman).
15. slang the act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
16. slang A successful robbery.
17. slang A sexual conquest.
18. to mark with lines or notches, especially for the purpose of keeping a record.
19. to cancel or eliminate by or as if by superimposing lines.
20. to mark the surface of (meat, for example) with usually parallel cuts.
21. Sports & Games To gain (a point) in a game or contest.
22. Sports & Games To count or be worth as points: A basket scores two points.
23. Sports & Games To keep a written record of the score or events of (a game or contest).
24. Baseball Sports & Games To cause (a base runner) to cross home plate, especially by getting a hit: scored both runners with a double.
25. to achieve; win.
26. to evaluate and assign a grade to.
27. music to orchestrate.
28. music to arrange for a specific instrument.
29. to criticize cuttingly; berate.
30. slang to succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.
31. slang to succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug): "aging punks try to impress her with tales of . . . the different drugs they've scored” ( art Jahnke).
32. Sports & Games To make a point in a game or contest.
33. Sports & Games To keep the score of a game or contest.
34. slang to achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup: "they . . . score in places like the bond market” ( mike Barnicle).
35. slang to succeed in seducing someone sexually.
36. slang to succeed in buying or obtaining an illicit drug.

1. the total number of points earned by a participant in a game.
2. the number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
3. the performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
4. twenty, 20 (number).
5. one or more parts of a musical composition in a format indicating how the composition is to be played.
6. A presentation of how many runs a side has scored, and how many wickets have been lost.
7. the number of runs scored by a batsman, or by a side, in either an innings or a match.
8. subject
9. to earn points in a game.
10. to earn (points) in a game.
11. to achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
12. to record (the score) for a game or a match
13. to scratch (paper or cardboard) with a sharp implement to make it easier to fold.
14. to make fine, shallow lines with a sharp implement as cutting indications.
15. to have sexual intercourse.
16. to acquire or gain.
17. to obtain something desired.
18. to provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.

1. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
2. an account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
3. account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
4. the number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.
5. A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
6. A weight of twenty pounds.
7. the number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.
8. A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
9. the original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.
10. the grade received on an examination, such as those given in school or as a qualifying examination for a job or admission to school; -- it may be expressed as a percentage of answers which are correct, or as a number or letter.
11. to keep the score in a game; to act as scorer.
12. to make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally.
13. to run up a score, or account of dues.
14. to succeed in finding a partner for sexual intercourse; to make a sexual conquest.
15. to purchase drugs illegally.
16. to mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow.
17. especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something.
18. to mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
19. to engrave, as upon a shield.
20. to make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.
21. to write down in proper order and arrangement. see score, n., 9.
22. to mark with parallel lines or scratches.

1. to make scores or cuts in or upon; mark with incisions, notches, or grooves; furrow; slash; specifically, to make a long shallow cut in (cardboard or very thick paper), so that the card or paper can be bent without breaking, as for book-covers or folded cards.
2. to incise; engrave.
3. to stripe; braid.
4. to mark or record by a cut or score; in general, to mark; note; record.
5. to set down, enter, or charge as a debt or debtor: sometimes with up.
6. to succeed in making or winning and having entered to one's account or credit, as points, hits, runs, etc., in certain games; make a score of: as, he scored twenty runs; to score another victory.
7. in music:
8. to write out in score; transcribe.
9. same as orchestrate: as, the movement is scored for brass and strings only.
10. to arrange for a different instrument.
11. Milit., to produce erosion of (the bore of a gun) by the explosion of large charges.
12. to keep the score or reckoning; act as scorer.
13. to make points or runs in a game; succeed in having points or runs entered to one's credit or account; also, to be a winner or have the advantage: as, in the first inning he failed to score; A struggled hard, but B scored.
14. to run up a score; be or become a purchaser on credit.
15. A middle english form of scour.
16. in lumbering, to chip off the side of a log to a line, preparatory to facing it by hewing.
17. specifically, in archery, to keep a record of all the shots of one or several archers; make an entry on such a record. by the present method of scoring, hits in the gold, red, blue, black, and white are scored 9, 7, 5, 3, and 1 respectively. see target, 2.
18. in horse-racing, to try for a start.
19. to part or tend to part along the elements of the surface: said of castings which split from unequal contraction on cooling of the various parts.
20. in geology, to erode in striæ or grooves: said of glaciers. see rock-scoring.
21. A notch; a crack; a fissure; a cleft.
22. especially, a notch or cut made on a tally in keeping count of something: formerly a usual mode of reckoning; also, the tally or stick itself; hence, any mark used in reckoning or keeping count.
23. A reckoning or account kept by scores, marks, or otherwise, as the reckoning for unpaid potations marked with chalk on the tap-room door of a public house; hence, a reckoning or account in general: as, to keep the score.
24. the marks, or the sum of the marks, placed to one's debit; amount due; debt.
25. the aggregate of points made by contestants in certain games or matches: as, he makes a good score at cricket or base-ball; the score stood 5 to 1.
26. the detailed record or register of the various points or items of play made by players in a game or by competitors in a match.
27. account; reason; ground; motive.
28. A line drawn; a long superficial scratch or mark.
29. specifically, the line at which a marksman stands in target-shooting, or which forms the “scratch” or startingpoint in a race.
30. in music, a written or printed draft or copy of a composition on a set of two or more staffs braced and barred together.
31. the number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally, or a separate series of marks; twenty.
32. in old archery, twenty yards: thus, a mark of twelve score meant a mark at the distance of 240 yards.
33. twenty pounds weight: as, a score of meal. [ireland and west of eng.]
34. nautical: the groove cut in the side and bottom of a block or deadeye for the strapping to fit in.
35. A notch or groove made in a piece of timber or metal to allow another piece to be neatly fitted into it.
36. in archery, a record of all the shots of an archer; a record of all the shots of all the archers in a shooting-match; the sum of all the units won by an archer in a round. see round, 7 .

1. a set of twenty members
2. grounds
3. write a musical score for
4. a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
5. the act of scoring in a game or sport
6. the facts about an actual situation
7. make small marks into the surface of
8. gain points in a game
9. an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
10. make underscoring marks
11. assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
12. a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
13. a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
14. get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
15. a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
16. induce to have sex
17. a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
18. a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse