ALL meanings of scoring
score
S s - verb with object scoring to write down as a debt. 1
- verb with object scoring to record as a debtor. 1
- verb with object scoring to gain, achieve, or win: The play scored a great success. 1
- verb with object scoring Slang. to obtain (a drug) illicitly. to steal. to acquire; be given. 1
- verb with object scoring to berate or censure: The newspapers scored the mayor severely for the announcement. 1
- verb with object scoring to crease (paper or cardboard) so that it can be folded easily and without damage. 1
- verb without object scoring to make a point or points in a game or contest. 1
- verb without object scoring to keep score, as of a game. 1
- verb without object scoring to achieve an advantage or a success: The new product scored with the public. 1
- verb without object scoring to make notches, cuts, lines, etc. 1
- verb without object scoring to run up a score or debt. 1
- verb without object scoring Slang. to succeed in finding a willing sexual partner; have coitus. to purchase or obtain drugs illicitly. to elicit and accept a bribe. 1
- idioms scoring pay off / settle a score, to avenge a wrong; retaliate: In the Old West they paid off a score with bullets. 1
- abbreviation SCORING score-keeping 1
- noun scoring grading 1
- noun plural scoring the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match. 1
- noun plural scoring the total points or strokes made by one side, individual, play, game, etc. 1
- noun plural scoring an act or instance of making or earning a point or points. 1
- noun plural scoring Education, Psychology. the performance of an individual or sometimes of a group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol. 1
- noun plural scoring a notch, scratch, or incision; a stroke or line. 1
- noun plural scoring a notch or mark for keeping an account or record. 1
- noun plural scoring a reckoning or account so kept; tally. 1
- noun plural scoring any account showing indebtedness. 1
- noun plural scoring an amount recorded as due. 1
- noun plural scoring a line drawn as a boundary, the starting point of a race, a goal line, etc. 1
- noun plural scoring a group or set of 20: about a score of years ago. 1
- noun plural scoring scores, a great many: Scores of people were at the dance. 1
- noun plural scoring a reason, ground, or cause: to complain on the score of low pay. 1
- noun plural scoring Informal. the basic facts, point of progress, etc., regarding a situation: What's the score on Saturday's picnic? a successful move, remark, etc. 1
- noun plural scoring Music. a written or printed piece of music with all the vocal and instrumental parts arranged on staves, one under the other. the music itself. the music played as background to or part of a movie, play, or television presentation. 1
- noun plural scoring Slang. a success in finding a willing sexual partner; sexual conquest. a purchase or acquisition of illicit drugs, as heroin or cocaine. a single payoff obtained through graft by a police officer, especially from a narcotics violator. a successful robbery; theft. any success, triumph, happy acquisition, gift, or win. the victim of a robbery or swindle. 1
- verb with object scoring to gain for addition to one's score in a game or match. 1
- verb with object scoring to make a score of: He scored 98 on the test. 1
- verb with object scoring to have as a specified value in points: Four aces score 100. 1
- verb with object scoring Education, Psychology. to evaluate the responses a person has made on (a test or an examination). 1
- verb with object scoring Music. to orchestrate. to write out in score. to compose the music for (a movie, play, television show, etc.) 1
- verb with object scoring Cookery. to cut ridges or lines into (meat, fish, etc.) with shallow slashes, usually in a diamond pattern, before cooking. 1
- verb with object scoring to make notches, cuts, marks, or lines in or on. 1
- verb with object scoring to record or keep a record of (points, items, etc.), by or as if by notches, marks, etc.; tally; reckon (often followed by up). 1
- noun scoring the act or practice of scoring 0
- noun scoring orchestration 0