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Noun score has 11 senses

mark, grade, score - a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance); "she made good marks in algebra"; "grade A milk"; "what was your score on your homework?"
--₁ is a kind of evaluation, valuation, rating
--₁ has particulars: grade point; percentile, centile; decile; quartile
Derived forms: verb score₇, verb score₆
score, musical score - a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages; "he studied the score of the sonata"
--₂ is a kind of sheet music
--₂ has parts: musical notation
Derived form: verb score₄
score - a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to 0"
--₃ is a kind of number
--₃ has part: point
--₃ has particulars:
bowling score; football score; baseball score; basketball score; birdie; bogey; double-bogey; duck, duck's egg; eagle; double eagle; game; love; match; par

Derived form: verb score₁
score - a set of twenty members; "a score were sent out but only one returned"
--₄ is a kind of set
score, account - grounds; "don't do it on my account"; "the paper was rejected on account of its length"; "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful"
--₅ is a kind of reason, ground
score - the facts about an actual situation; "he didn't know the score"
--₆ is a kind of fact
score - an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar); "add it to my score and I'll settle later"
--₇ is a kind of debt
score, scotch - a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
--₈ is a kind of incision, scratch, prick, slit, dent

Derived form: verb score₂
grudge, score, grievance - a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score"
--₉ is a kind of resentment, bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour
score - the act of scoring in a game or sport; "the winning score came with less than a minute left to play"
--₁₀ is a kind of success
--₁₀ has particulars:
bull's eye; goal; strike, ten-strike; spare; open frame, break; safety; touchdown; field goal; conversion; run, tally; basket, field goal; hat trick; break, break of serve; equalizer

Derived form: verb score₁
sexual conquest, score - a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse; "calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang"
--₁₁ is a kind of seduction, conquest

Derived form: verb score₅

Verb score has 7 senses

score, hit, tally, rack up - gain points in a game; "The home team scored many times"; "He hit a home run"; "He hit .300 in the past season"
--₁ is one way to gain, advance, win, pull ahead, make headway, get ahead, gain ground

Derived forms: noun score₁₀, noun score₃, noun scorer₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
score, nock, mark - make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before firing it"
--₂ is one way to notch

Derived forms: noun score₈, noun scorer₂
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
score, mark - make underscoring marks
--₃ is one way to record, enter, put down
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
score - write a musical score for
--₄ is one way to compose, write

Derived form: noun score₂
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue score the movie
seduce, score, make - induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally"
--₅ is one way to persuade

Derived form: noun score₁₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
=> Somebody ----s
score - get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance; "She scored high on the SAT"; "He scored a 200"
--₆ is one way to achieve, accomplish, attain, reach

Derived form: noun score₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s something
grade, score, mark - assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation; "grade tests"; "score the SAT essays"; "mark homework"
--₇ is one way to measure, evaluate, valuate, assess, appraise, value

Derived forms: noun score₁, noun scorer₃, noun scoring₁
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something