score

score1 [ skɔr ] verb ***

▸ 1 gain point in game/sport

▸ 2 achieve level on test

▸ 3 record score in game

▸ 4 succeed in doing something

▸ 5 obtain

▸ 6 have sex with someone

▸ 7 mark line into surface

▸ 8 write/arrange music

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) intransitive or transitive to get a point in a game or sport:

No one scored in the first half.

score a goal/point/run: He scored the first goal after five minutes.

2. ) transitive to achieve a particular amount, level, etc. in a test:

She's hoping to score high on the math test.

a ) to judge someone's effort in a competition or on a test and give them points:

The participants' answers were scored and the totals added up.

b ) to be worth a particular number of points:

The bonus question at the end of the test scores 15 points.

3. ) intransitive or transitive to record the score in a game

4. ) intransitive or transitive to be successful in doing something:

She seems to have scored with her latest novel.

score a success/victory/win: They scored some notable sales successes.

5. ) intransitive or transitive AMERICAN INFORMAL to obtain something, especially without paying for it or with little effort:

Maybe I can score some new CDs at the radio station.

a ) INFORMAL to buy illegal drugs

6. ) intransitive SPOKEN to have sex with someone, especially with a new partner

7. ) transitive to mark a line into the surface of something:

Score the meat lightly with a knife.

8. ) transitive to write a piece of music for a particular group of instruments or voices:

score something for something: The suite is scored for flute and violin.

score points

to gain an advantage over other people, especially by saying or doing something that makes a particular person or group of people like you:

score points with: He scored points with teachers by proposing shorter working hours.

,score `out or ,score `through phrasal verb transitive MAINLY BRITISH

to draw a line through written words

`score off phrasal verb transitive

score off someone to gain an advantage over someone:

Why does she constantly try to score off her sister?

score

score 2 [ skɔr ] noun ***

▸ 1 points in game/test

▸ 2 written copy of music

▸ 3 true facts of situation

▸ 4 group of 20

▸ 5 mark cut into surface

▸ + PHRASES

1. ) count the number of points that someone gains in a game

a ) the result of a game or the number of points gained by everyone playing up to a particular moment:

Have you heard the latest score?

The final score was 4 3.

b ) a number that represents how well someone did on a test:

The average score for the test was 75.

2. ) count a written copy of a piece of music:

the complete musical scores of Strauss

a ) the music written for a movie, play, etc.

3. ) singular INFORMAL the true facts of a situation:

So what's the score on the party this weekend? Are we going?

4. ) count LITERARY a group of 20 people or things

a ) scores plural a large number of people or things:

Scores of volunteers offered to help.

5. ) count a mark cut into the surface of something:

Workers cut deep scores in the road before laying the paving.

keep score

1. ) to keep a record of the score in a game

2. ) to count the number of times something happens:

It's not the first time they've beaten us, but who's keeping score?

know the score INFORMAL

to know the truth about something, especially when it is unpleasant:

You don't have to lie to me. I know the score.

on that/this score

used for referring to something that has just been mentioned:

We wanted to attract new recruits, and on that score, the campaign has been successful.

settle a score/an old score

to do something that harms someone who has done something to harm you in the past:

They are eager to settle scores against those who exploited them.