Score
51score — {{11}}score (n.) late O.E. scoru twenty, from O.N. skor mark, tally, also, in Icelandic, twenty, from P.Gmc. *skura , from PIE root * (s)ker to cut (Cf. O.E. sceran; see SHEAR (Cf. shear)). The connecting notion is perhaps counting large numbers… …
52score — I. n 1. British £20. The word has been particularly popular in underworld and police usage since before World War II. ► I thought it was worth at least a hundred, but I only got a score for it. 2. a success or coup, especially a successful crime …
53score — 1. noun 1) the final score was 4?3 Syn: result, outcome, total, tally, count 2) an IQ score of 161 Syn: rating, grade, mark, percentage 2. verb 1) …
54score — See: SETTLE A SCORE also WIPE OUT AN OLD SCORE, THE SCORE …
55score — See: SETTLE A SCORE also WIPE OUT AN OLD SCORE, THE SCORE …
56score — 1. noun /skɔː,skɔːr/ a) The total number of points earned by a participant in a game. The player with the highest score is the winner. b) The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of… …
57score — I Australian Slang 1. latest news or state of progress: What s the score on Malcolm? ; 2. prostitute s customer; 3. sum of twenty dollars; $20; 4. (obsolete) sum of twenty pounds; £20; 5. get or obtain: scored the job ; 6. be successful in… …
58score — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. account, reckoning, tally, record; reason; twenty; music, orchestration, arrangement, chart (sl.); notch, scratch. See debt, music, credit, furrow. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [A tally] Syn. stock,… …
59score — [11] The etymological notion underlying score is of ‘cutting’ – for it is related to English shear. It was borrowed from Old Norse skor, which went back to the same prehistoric Germanic base – *skur , *sker ‘cut’ – that produced shear (not to… …
60score — See: settle a score also wipe out an old score, the score …
