score

Significat (anglès)

Noun

1. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. 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.
5. An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.
6. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
7. A weight of twenty pounds.
8. The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.
9. The music of a movie or play.
10. Subject.
11. Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
12. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
13. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
14. (slang) a criminal act, especially:
15. (slang) a criminal act, especially:
16. (slang) a criminal act, especially:
17. (slang) a criminal act, especially:
18. (slang) A sexual conquest.
19. In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.

Verb

1. To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
2. To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
3. To obtain something desired.
4. To obtain something desired.
5. To obtain something desired.
6. (slang) To obtain something desired.
7. (slang) To obtain something desired.
8. (slang) To obtain something desired.
9. To rate; to evaluate the quality of.
10. To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.

Intj

Acknowledgement of success

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/skɔː/

Etimologia (anglès)

From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.