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Scoring   /skˈɔrɪŋ/   Listen
Scoring

noun
1.
Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score.  Synonyms: grading, marking.


Score

verb
(past & past part. scored; pres. part. scoring)
1.
Gain points in a game.  Synonyms: hit, rack up, tally.  "He hit a home run" , "He hit .300 in the past season"
2.
Make small marks into the surface of.  Synonyms: mark, nock.
3.
Make underscoring marks.  Synonym: mark.
4.
Write a musical score for.
5.
Induce to have sex.  Synonyms: make, seduce.  "Did you score last night?" , "Harry made Sally"
6.
Get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance.  "He scored a 200"
7.
Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation.  Synonyms: grade, mark.  "Score the SAT essays" , "Mark homework"



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"Scoring" Quotes from Famous Books



... truth, and you don't find good men always scoring and bad men always coming to grief. In history, good men come to grief sometimes and bad ...
— The Spinners • Eden Phillpotts
... which contribute little besides fuel to the diet, such as rice and white flour, or to include those which are rich in other essentials, such as oatmeal. It is difficult to express briefly this difference in foods in any concrete fashion, but recently a method of grading or "scoring" foods has been introduced which may help to make clearer the relationship between nutritive ...
— Everyday Foods in War Time • Mary Swartz Rose
... holding back his big card and scoring against them all was the feeling that Mary Thorne would be the one to suffer most. He would be putting an abrupt finish to Lynch's game, whatever that was, but his action would also involve the girl in deep and bitter humiliation, if not something worse. Moreover, he was ...
— Shoe-Bar Stratton • Joseph Bushnell Ames
... delighted in drawing her out—it was a pastime that took the lead at dinner-parties, to an extent which her hostess often thought preposterous—and she responded with naivete and vigour, perfectly aware that she was scoring all along the line. Upon many charming people she made the impression that she was a type of the most finished class of what they called 'English society girls,' that she represented the best they could do over there in this direction. As a matter of fact she might have sat to any ...
— The Pool in the Desert • Sara Jeannette Duncan
... home run and tied the score in the sixth inning, and after that, until the ninth there was no more scoring. ...
— The Boy Scout Fire Fighters - or Jack Danby's Bravest Deed • Robert Maitland


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