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Scoring   /skˈɔrɪŋ/   Listen
verb
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



... corner confabs had followed. Mary, who did not aspire to basket ball honors, had been present at these talks. In the beginning the discussions had merely been devoted to the devising of signals and the various methods of scoring against their opponents. But gradually a new and sinister note had crept in. Mignon did not actually counsel her team to take unfair advantages, but she made many artful suggestions, backed up by a play of ...
— Marjorie Dean - High School Sophomore • Pauline Lester
... circles. Our art has never been national art: I cannot imagine our making the fuss about a great writer that is made about a second-rate journalist in Paris. It is Grace the cricketer for whom the hundred thousand subscribe their shilling: fancy a writer thus rewarded, even after scoring his century of popular novels. The winning of the Derby gives a new fillip to the monarchy itself. A Victor Hugo in London is a thought a faire rire. A Goethe at the court of Victoria, or directing Drury Lane Theatre, ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill
... 1538 a message had been received containing "an advertisement for the setting forth of the Word of God, abolishing of the Bishop of Rome's usurped authority, and extinguishing of idolatry."[22] Immediately the members of the council hostile to Lord Grey saw their opportunity of scoring a signal victory. If they could not penetrate into the North or West they determined to make an excursion into the "four shires above the Barrow" to assert the king's supremacy, "but also to levy the first fruits and twentieth part with other of ...
— History of the Catholic Church from the Renaissance • Rev. James MacCaffrey
... the implements required are the bow, arrows, targets, a quiver pouch and belt, an arm-guard or brace, a shooting glove or finger tip, and a scoring card. ...
— Our Deportment - Or the Manners, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society • John H. Young
... means of escaping, if courage can without indignity be ever said to escape. He sat uneasy on his lap-board. Instead of cutting out soberly, he nourished his scissors as if he were heading a faction; he wasted much chalk by scoring his cloth in wrong places, and even caught his hot goose without a holder. These symptoms alarmed, his friends, who persuaded him to go to a doctor. Neal went, to satisfy them; but he knew that no prescription could drive the courage out of him—that he was too far gone in ...
— Phelim O'toole's Courtship and Other Stories • William Carleton


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