1. Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score
   "what he disliked about teaching was all the scoring he had to do";
   - marking, grading

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: scorings

Type of: accomplish, achieve, advance, appraise, apprise [Brit, archaic], apprize [archaic], assess, attain, compose, enter, evaluate, evaluation, forge ahead, gain, gain ground, get ahead, make headway, measure, notch, persuade, pull ahead, put down, rating, reach, record, scope, valuate [N. Amer], value, win, write

Encyclopedia: Scoring