1. A large number or amount
   "made scores of new friends";
   - tons [informal], dozens, heaps [informal], lots, piles [informal], stacks [informal], loads [informal], rafts [informal], slews, wads [informal], oodles [informal], gobs [N. Amer, informal], scads [N. Amer, informal], lashings [Brit, informal], many, masses [Brit, informal]

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]

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, large indefinite amount, large indefinite quantity, 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: Scores