score
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Is score a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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- Wordle Yes
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What is the meaning of score?
Definition
noun (English)
1. Twenty (20).Examples: "DEVLIN:You know the apple and core. Head might cost you a score, or more if you want a meat show on all fours."Britishslang
2. (often in the plural) A great deal; many, several.in-pluraloften
3. (gambling) An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.Examples: "Use a few “introductory plays” to become known to a casino before you go for a big score."
4. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.
5. (music) The music of a movie or play.Examples: "Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee."
6. (US, slang, crime) A criminal act, especially:Examples: "Let's pull a score!"; "Batman: Dangerous crowd you're stealing from. Catwoman: Jesus. Is this how you get your kicks, hon? Sneaking up on girls in the dark? Batman: Is that why you work in the club? It was all just a score?"USslang
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.Examples: "A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away,[…]."; "The baker scored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it."Synonyms: groove, notchtransitive
2. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.Synonyms: keep, tallyintransitive
3. (ambitransitive) To obtain something desired.Examples: ""Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did. After all, I've scored by it.""; "In the past decade gay people have scored a number of significant advances."ambitransitive
4. (ambitransitive) To obtain something desired.Examples: "It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game."; "Pelé scores again!"; "And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following."ambitransitive
5. (ambitransitive) To obtain something desired.Examples: "No, Butthead, that's my point. You didn't score. You got a zero."; "At the end of first grade, the children scored 80 percent correct on this test, a value that remained unchanged through third grade."; "Intelligence is heritable, and for a long time, researchers assumed that people with high IQ scores would have kids who also scored above average."ambitransitive
6. (ambitransitive) To obtain something desired.Examples: "[…] he scored big by hitting the jack pot at the Bellagio (he won $7,000). The next day, he won $15,000 on the nickel machines at the Palm Casino!"ambitransitive
intj (English)
1. (US, slang) An acknowledgement of success.USslang
Definition source: Wiktionary