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Sounds | skao'r |
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Rhymes | abhor, adore, albacore, and 113 more rhymes in aor at the HyperDic website... |
Meaning | A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance). |
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Examples | "what was your score on your homework?" |
Synonyms | mark, grade |
Narrower | grade point; percentile, centile; decile; quartile |
Broader | evaluation, valuation, rating |
Verbs | score; score |
Meaning | A written form of a musical composition. Parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages. |
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Examples | "he studied the score of the sonata" |
Synonyms | musical score |
Parts | musical notation |
Broader | sheet music |
Verbs | score |
Meaning | A number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest. |
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Examples | "the score was 7 to 0" |
Parts | point |
Narrower | bowling score; football score; baseball score; basketball score; birdie; bogey; double-bogey; duck, duck's egg; eagle; double eagle; game; love; match; par |
Broader | number |
Verbs | score |
Meaning | A set of twenty members. |
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Examples | "a score were sent out but only one returned" |
Broader | set |
Meaning | Grounds. |
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Examples | "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful" |
Synonyms | account |
Broader | reason, ground |
Meaning | The facts about an actual situation. |
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Examples | "he didn't know the score" |
Broader | fact |
Meaning | An amount due (as at a restaurant or bar). |
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Examples | "add it to my score and I'll settle later" |
Broader | debt |
Meaning | A slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally). |
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Synonyms | scotch |
Broader | incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent |
Verbs | score |
Meaning | A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation. |
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Examples | "settling a score" |
Synonyms | grudge, grievance |
Broader | resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour |
Meaning | The act of scoring in a game or sport. |
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Examples | "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play" |
Narrower | bull's eye; goal; strike, ten-strike; spare; open frame, break; safety; touchdown; field goal; conversion; run, tally; basket, field goal; hat trick; break, break of serve; equalizer |
Broader | success |
Verbs | score |
Meaning | A seduction culminating in sexual intercourse. |
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Examples | "calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang" |
Synonyms | sexual conquest |
Broader | seduction, conquest |
Verbs | score |
Meaning | Gain points in a game. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "The home team scored many times" |
Synonyms | hit, tally, rack up |
Entails | compete, vie, contend |
Caused by | drive in |
Narrower | par; shoot; convert; convert; convert; homer; kick; eagle; hole up; ace; walk; equalize, equalise, get even; have, get, make |
Broader | gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground |
Nouns | score; scorer; score |
Meaning | Make small marks into the surface of. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Examples | "score the clay before firing it" |
Synonyms | nock, mark |
Narrower | scarify; scotch; scribe; line |
Broader | notch |
Similar to | scar, mark, pock, pit |
Nouns | scorer; score |
Meaning | Make underscoring marks. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
Synonyms | mark |
Narrower | cancel, invalidate |
Broader | record, enter, put down |
Meaning | Write a musical score for. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s something |
Model | Sam and Sue score the movie |
Category | music |
Narrower | orchestrate |
Broader | compose, write |
Nouns | score |
Meaning | Induce to have sex. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s somebody |
Examples | "Did you score last night?" |
Synonyms | seduce, make |
Entails | roll in the hay, love, make out, make love, sleep with, get laid, have sex, know, do it, be intimate, have intercourse, have it away, have it off, screw, fuck, jazz, eff, hump, lie with, bed, have a go at it, bang, get it on, bonk |
Broader | persuade |
Similar to | seduce |
Nouns | score |
Meaning | Get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s Adjective; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "She scored high on the SAT"; "He scored a 200" |
Narrower | test |
Broader | achieve, accomplish, attain, reach |
Nouns | score |
Meaning | Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation. |
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Pattern | Somebody ----s; Somebody ----s something |
Examples | "score the SAT essays" |
Synonyms | grade, mark |
Broader | measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value |
Nouns | scorer; scoring; score |