score

score
   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 1066 by the Norman conquerors of England and one from the Old English spoken by the Anglo-Saxon people they conquered. In this case, dozen is the French word and score is the Old English word, derived from the Norse word skor meaning a notch cut in a stick as a tally mark. The suffix -score can be added to a number, as in threescore (60) or fivescore (100).

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  • score — score …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • Score — may refer to:Numbers and statistics*Score (game), a number of points achieved in a sporting event or game. *a unit of twenty, as in Abraham Lincoln s Gettysburg Address. *Score (statistics), the derivative, with respect to some parameter θ, of… …   Wikipedia

  • score — [ skɔr ] n. m. • 1896; mot angl. ♦ Marque, décompte des points au cours d un match. Le score est de 3 à 1. Un score sévère. Le score final. ♢ Classement, dans une compétition, un test (⇒ note). Score électoral. Améliorer son score. ● score nom… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • SCORE — bezeichnet: einen Anglizismus für die Filmmusik eines bestimmten Films – und davon abgeleitet: ein Notensatzprogramm, siehe Score (Programm) einen Anglizismus für den Punktestand bei Spielen (insbesondere Computerspielen; vlg. Highscore Tabelle)… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Score — (sk[=o]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scored} (sk[=o]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Scoring}.] 1. To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Score — (sk[=o]r), n. [AS. scor twenty, fr. sceran, scieran, to shear, cut, divide; or rather the kindred Icel. skor incision, twenty, akin to Dan. skure a notch, Sw. sk[*a]ra. See {Shear}.] 1. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Score — ist: englische Bezeichnung für Musik Partitur englische Bezeichnung für Filmmusik Score (Film), jugoslawisch US amerikanischer Erotikfilm von Radley Metzger von 1972 Score 2, japanischer Actionthriller von Hitoshi Ozawa von 1999 englische… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • score — [skôr] n. [ME < OE scoru < ON skor < IE base * (s)ker , to cut > SHEAR] 1. a) a scratch, mark, incision, etc. [scores made on ice by skates] b) a line drawn or scratched, often to mark a starting point, etc. c) notches made in wood,… …   English World dictionary

  • score — [n1] total, points account, addition, aggregate, amount, average, count, final count, grade, mark, number, outcome, rate, reckoning, record, result, stock, sum, summary, summation, tab, tally; concepts 364,784 score / scores [n2] large group; a… …   New thesaurus

  • score — ► NOUN 1) the number of points, goals, runs, etc. achieved by an individual or side in a game. 2) (pl. same) a group or set of twenty. 3) (scores of) a large amount or number of. 4) a written representation of a musical composition showing all… …   English terms dictionary

  • Score — 〈[skɔ:(r)] m. 6〉 oV Skore 1. 〈Sp.〉 Spiel , Punktestand, Ergebnis eines Wettkampfes 2. 〈Psych.〉 Zahlen , Messwert, Testergebnis [engl., „Punkte , Spielstand; Rechnung“ <mengl. scor <anord. skor „Kerbe, Einschnitt, Kerbholz“] * * * Score [skɔ …   Universal-Lexikon

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