1. A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
   "what was your score on your homework?";
   - mark, grade
    
2. A written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
   "he studied the score of the sonata";
   - musical score
    
3. A number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
   "the score was 7 to 0"
    
4. An amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
   "add it to my score and I'll settle later"
    
5. A set of twenty members
   "a score were sent out but only one returned"
    
6. The facts about an actual situation
   "he didn't know the score"
    
7. A slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
   "He made a score on the wood to mark where to cut";
   - scotch [archaic]
    
8. A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
   "settling a score";
   - grudge, grievance
    
9. The act of scoring in a game or sport
   "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play"
    
10. [slang] A seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
    "calling his seduction of the girl a 'score' was a typical example of male slang";
    - sexual conquest
     
11. Grounds
    "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful";
    - account

1. Gain points in a game
   "The home team is scoring points";
   - tally, rack up
    
2. Make small marks into the surface of
   "score the clay before firing it";
   - mark
    
3. Get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
   "She scored high on the SAT"; "He scored a 200"
    
4. Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
   "score the SAT essays";
   - grade, mark
    
5. (music) write a musical score for
   "The composer scored the film, enhancing its emotional impact"
    
6. Make underscoring marks
   "She scored the important passages in the text";
   - mark
    
7. [slang] Successfully get someone to be one's date or sex partner
   "he scored last night";
   - pull [Brit, slang]
    
8. [slang] Induce to have sex
   "Did you score last night?";
   - seduce, make [slang]

Derived forms: scored, scores, scoring

Type of: accomplish, achieve, acrimoniousness, advance, appraise, apprise [Brit, archaic], apprize [archaic], assess, attain, bile, bitterness, compose, conquest, debt, enter, evaluate, evaluation, fact, forge ahead, gain, gain ground, gall, get ahead, ground, hard feelings, ill feeling, incision, make headway, measure, notch, number, occasion, persuade, prick, pull ahead, put down, rancor [US], rancour [Brit, Cdn], rating, reach, reason, record, resentment, scope, scratch, seduction, set, sheet music, slit, success, valuate [N. Amer], valuation, value, win, write

Encyclopedia: Score