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score

Definition

  • noun: the number of points, goals, runs, etc., that each player or team has in a game or contest
  • noun: a group of 20 things
  • verb: to get points, goals, runs, etc., in a game or contest
  • verb: to keep a record or account of by or as if by notches on a tally
  • usually + 'of'
  • synonyms: twenty, record, bill

Examples

  • Only one person had/got a 'perfect score' on the test. [=only one person answered all the questions correctly]

  • If you're 'keeping score' at home, this is the third time that he has run for mayor and lost.

  • The 'score' was tied at 1–1 [=each team had scored one run] after the second inning.

Movie clips

Movie quotes

  • (..) and deviants in the universe... ...will become united under one leader. There will be a war of light that will burn the surface of Oa black. It will leave scores of Lanterns dead. Even the greatest of them will fall. The green light will be extinguished and there will be left a new corps. Sinestro. (..)
    2011 Green Lantern: Emerald Knights