scoring
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score
(skôr)n.
1. Sports & Games
a. A usually numerical record of a competitive event: keeping score.
b. 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.
c. The number of points attributed to a competitor or team.
2. A result, usually expressed numerically, of a test or examination.
3.
a. An amount due; a debt.
b. A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction: settle an old score.
4. A ground; a reason: You have nothing to worry about on that score.
5. A group of 20 items.
6. scores Large numbers: Scores of people attended the rally.
7. Music
a. The notation of a musical work.
b. The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.
c. The music written for a film or a play.
8. Slang
a. 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).
b. The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.
c. A successful robbery.
d. An instance of having sexual intercourse with a desired partner.
9. A notch or incision, especially one that is made to keep a tally.
v. scored, scor·ing, scores
v.tr.
1. To achieve or accomplish: scored a success in the play.
2. Sports & Games
a. To achieve or gain in a game or contest: score a touchdown.
b. To count or be worth as points: A basket scores two points.
c. To keep a written record of the score or events of (a game or contest).
d. Baseball To cause (a base runner) to cross home plate, especially by getting a hit: scored both runners with a double.
3. To evaluate and assign a grade to: score a test.
4. Music
a. To orchestrate (a piece of music).
b. To arrange for a specific instrument.
5. To criticize cuttingly; berate.
6. Slang
a. To succeed in acquiring: scored two tickets to the play.
b. To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug): "Aging punks try to impress her with tales of ... the different drugs they've scored" (Art Jahnke).
7.
a. To mark (a piece of paper or wood, for example) with lines or notches, especially for the purpose of keeping a record.
b. To cancel or eliminate by superimposing lines.
c. To mark the surface of (meat, for example) with usually parallel cuts.
v.intr.
1. Sports & Games
a. To make a point or points in a game or contest.
b. To record the score or progress of a game or contest.
2. Slang
a. To achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup: "They ... score in places like the bond market" (Mike Barnicle).
b. To succeed in having sexual relations with a desired partner.
c. To succeed in buying or obtaining an illicit drug.
[Middle English, crack, scratch, tally stick, tally of twenty, from Old English scoru (attested only in the sense "twenty"), from Old Norse skor, notch, tally stick, tally of twenty; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]
scor′er n.
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scoring
(ˈskɔːrɪŋ)n
1. the act or practice of scoring
2. (Music, other) orchestration. See orchestrate
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scoring
[ˈskɔːrɪŋ] N1. (Sport) (= keeping score) → tanteo m
2. (= act of scoring) Evans opened the scoring in the third minute → Evans abrió el marcador en el tercer minuto
he has a good scoring record → marca muchos goles or tantos
he has a good scoring record → marca muchos goles or tantos
3. (Mus) → orquestación f
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scoring
n → Erzielen nt → eines Punktes; (Ftbl etc) → Torschuss m; (= scorekeeping) → Zählen nt; to open the scoring → den ersten Punkt machen; (Ftbl etc) → das erste Tor schießen; rules for scoring → Regeln über die Zählweise; so far there has been no scoring (Ftbl etc) → bis jetzt ist noch kein Tor gefallen; X did most of the scoring → X erzielte die meisten Punkte; (Ftbl etc) → X schoss die meisten Tore
adj suf a low-/high-scoring match → ein Spiel, in dem wenig/viele Punkte/Tore erzielt wurden; he is Arsenal’s top-scoring player → er hat die meisten Tore für Arsenal erzielt or geschossen, er ist Arsenals Torschützenkönig
scoring
:scoring chance
n (Sport) → Torchance f
scoring spree
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