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Scoring   /skˈɔrɪŋ/   Listen
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Score  v. t.  (past & past part. scored; pres. part. 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 lash. "Let us score their backs." "A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scored her white right hand."
2.
Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.
3.
To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge. "Madam, I know when, Instead of five, you scored me ten." "Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score."
4.
To engrave, as upon a shield. (R.)
5.
To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.
6.
(Mus.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.
7.
(Geol.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.


Scorn  v. t.  (past & past part. scorned; pres. part. scoring)  
1.
To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain. "I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me." "This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those who neglect and scorn shall never taste." "We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful."
2.
To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride. "His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to laugh, and scorned him full fast." "To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously."
Synonyms: To contemn; despise; disdain. See Contemn.


Score  v. i.  
1.
To keep the score in a game; to act as scorer.
2.
To make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally.
3.
To run up a score, or account of dues.
4.
To succeed in finding a partner for sexual intercourse; to make a sexual conquest. (slang)
5.
To purchase drugs illegally. (slang)


Scorn  v. i.  To scoff; to mock; to show contumely, derision, or reproach; to act disdainfully. "He said mine eyes were black and my hair black, And, now I am remembered, scorned at me."





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"Scoring" Quotes from Famous Books



... players, holding the letters necessary to make the word, come to the front and stand holding the cards in front of them, in correct order. The side spelling the word correctly first scores a point. Team scoring most points wins. (It is advisable to have one letter of the alphabet on one side of the card and a different letter on ...
— Games and Play for School Morale - A Course of Graded Games for School and Community Recreation • Various
... Glamorganshire woman. My father, I know, walked up from Wales, mending boots on his road for a livelihood. He is not a bad scholar, he knows Greek enough to like it. He is a Dissenting preacher. When I strike a truism, I 've a habit of scoring it to give him a peg or tuning-fork for one of his discourses. He's a man of talent; he taught himself, and he taught me more than I learnt at school. He is a thinker in his way. He loves Nature too. I rather envy him in some respects. ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... expose any on the table as in the first round. The same proceeding [99] is repeated until the whole pack has been exhausted, the player who is last able to pair or combine any of the exposed cards taking all the remaining cards off the table, and scoring one point for thus "sweeping the board," as it is termed. If a player is able to sweep the board at any other time during the progress of the game, he also scores a point, and the following player has to commence a new board ...
— Round Games with Cards • W. H. Peel
... reasonable demand if man is indeed a social animal. But we have got to treat them fairly and openly. This patience and reasonableness and willingness for leadership is not limitless. It is no good scoring our mean little points, for example, and accusing them of breach of contract and all sorts of theoretical wrongs because they won't abide by agreements to accept a certain scale of wages when the purchasing power of ...
— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells
... you the 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


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