Crossword-Solution: SCORE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Score | n. | A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account. |
| Score | n. | An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness. |
| Score | n. | Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. |
| Score | n. | The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number. |
| Score | n. | A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery. |
| Score | n. | A weight of twenty pounds. |
| Score | n. | The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket. |
| Score | n. | A line drawn; a groove or furrow. |
| Score | n. | 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. |
| Score | v. t. | To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash. |
| Score | v. t. | Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally. |
| Score | v. t. | To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge. |
| Score | v. t. | To engrave, as upon a shield. |
| Score | v. t. | To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game. |
| Score | v. t. | To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9. |
| Score | n. | To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SCORE | anagram | CEROS, CORES, CORSE, COSER, OCRES, SECOR |
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One who, or that which, eats.
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Sentences with SCORE (5)
When she stole softly to the edge of the lagoon she might see them by the score, especially on Marooners’ Rock, where they loved to bask, combing out their hair in a lazy way that quite irritated her; or she might even swim, on tiptoe as it were, to within a yard of them, but then they saw her and dived, probably splashing her with their tails, not by accident, but intentionally.
When they reached the church, a score of teams were hitched in front of the basement doors that opened from the hillside upon the sanded terrace, where the boys wrestled and had jumping-matches.
Yer teeth baint half gone yet; and what’s a old man’s standing if so be his teeth baint gone? Weren’t I stale in wedlock afore ye were out of arms? ’Tis a poor thing to be sixty, when there’s people far past four-score—a boast weak as water.” It was the unvarying custom in Weatherbury to sink minor differences when the maltster had to be pacified.
The brave soldier had already numbered, nearly or quite, his three-score years and ten, and was pursuing the remainder of his earthly march, burdened with infirmities which even the martial music of his own spirit-stirring recollections could do little towards lightening.
However, I felt like a schoolmaster amidst children, and persisted, and presently I had a score of noun substantives at least at my command; and then I got to demonstrative pronouns, and even the verb ‘to eat.’ But it was slow work, and the little people soon tired and wanted to get away from my interrogations, so I determined, rather of necessity, to let them give their lessons in little doses when they felt inclined.
Quotes with SCORE (3)
Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offense. Love keeps no score of wrongs; does not gloat over other men's sins, but delights in the truth. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and endurance. [....] In a word, there are three things that last forever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love.
You don't have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don't have to explain what your plan to do with your life. You don't have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don't have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history of economics or science or the arts.
You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Rock & Roll, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 406 times in crossword archives (1945–2025).