Definition of: score

(skôr, skōr) noun
1 a A notch, cut, groove, mark, or line, b A notch or line used in keeping a tally or score; hence, an account or reckoning kept by notches or marks.
2. Any record, especially of indebtedness: debt; bill: to run up a score at a grocery.
3. Something charged or laid up against one; grudge; difference: to pay off old scores; an account; a credit; motive.
4. The record of the winning points, counts, or runs in competitions and games; also, the whole number of such points made by a player or side or in the game.
5. Music The collective notes in which a composition is written, when placed on two or more connected staffs one above another.
6. The number twenty, originally indicated by a special notch on a tally; twenty units or things: in the plural often indicating indefinitely large numbers.
7. Psychol. A quantitative value assigned to an individual or group response to a test or series of tests, as of intelligence or performance.
—v. scored, scoring v.t.
1. To mark with notches, cuts, or lines.
2. To mark with cuts or lines for the purpose of keeping a tally or record.
3. To obliterate or cross out by means of a line drawn through: with out.
4. To make or gain, as points, runs, etc.
5. To count for a score of, as in games: A touchdown scores six points.
6. To rate or grade, as an examination paper; evaluate.
7. Music a To orchestrate. b To arrange or adapt for an instrument.
8. U.S. To criticize severely; scourge.
9. In cooking, to make superficial cuts in (meat, etc.).
—v.i.
10. To make points, runs, etc., as in a game.
11. To keep score.
12. To make notches, cuts, etc.
13. To win an advantage; achieve a success. [OE scoru <ON skor a notch, tally]
—scor′er noun