score

  • 61score —    a traditional unit of quantity equal to 20. The score, like the dozen, helps us describe a moderate number of objects. This is one of the many cases in which English has two words for similar concepts, one word from the Old French spoken in… …

    Dictionary of units of measurement

  • 62score — [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… …

    Word origins

  • 63score — Synonym for the overused cool and awesome. Score! I got tickets to the concert. OR This is really score. I can t believe I passed the test …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 64score — Synonym for the overused cool and awesome. Score! I got tickets to the concert. OR This is really score. I can t believe I passed the test …

    Dictionary of american slang

  • 65score — n 1. record of points, reckoning, tally, sum, amount, number, count, computation, calculation. 2. amount due, bill, check, Inf. tab; fee, charge, price; dun, demand for payment. 3. notch, nick, groove, nock, hole, gouge; cut, incision, slit, gash …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 66Score — (dt: Ergebnis)  Der Score wird nach dem Spielen von jedem Loch in die entsprechende Spalte der Scorekarte (Zählkarte) eingetragen, so dass sich nach 18 Löchern leicht der Gesamt Score addieren lässt …

    Golf lexikon

  • 67SCORE — See: Special Claim on Residual Equity * * * SCORE UK US /skɔːr/ noun SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ► ABBREVIATION for Service Corps of Retired Executives: an organization in the US that provides free help and advice to small businesses → Compare ACE(Cf.… …

    Financial and business terms

  • 68Score — 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 obtaining a partner for… …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 69score — sco·re s.m.inv. ES ingl. {{wmetafile0}} TS sport, giochi 1. in alcuni giochi e in alcune competizioni sportive, numero di punti conseguiti da ciascun giocatore o da una squadra | estens., punteggio finale di una partita a carte, di una… …

    Dizionario italiano

  • 70score — v Get, buy or steal. Go score some drinks. 1960s …

    Historical dictionary of American slang