[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/score/) [dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [English](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) / [S](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/s/) / score # score noun, verb (score, scores, scored, scoring) «score» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova. ## Everyday 1. A score is the number of points someone gets in a game, a match or a test. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#m1) 2. To score is to get a point or a goal in a game, or to get a mark in a test. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#m2) 3. A score is also the written music for a band or orchestra, or the music of a film. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#m3) 4. An old meaning: a score is 20 things, so «four score» is 80. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#m4) 5. To score a line is to scratch or cut it into a surface. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#m5) 6. A score can also be a debt or a grudge that you need to settle. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#m6) ### In the lessons In school a score is a test mark (a score of 85 out of 100) or points in a game; scores are added, compared or averaged. In sport: score a goal, score a try, the final score, keep score. In stories: «What's the score?» asks how the game stands; «to settle a score» means to get back at someone. In old texts and the Bible «threescore years and ten» is 70 years. ### Examples - Her score was 85 on the test. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#x1) - The team scored 3 goals in the second half. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#x2) - What is his average score? [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#x3) - Ann scored 12 more points than Ben. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#x4) - The final score was 2–1 to our school. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#x5) - Dad kept score while we played cards. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#x6) - The film's score was played by a big orchestra. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#x7) - «Four score and seven years ago» means 87 years ago. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#x8) - She scored the cardboard with scissors so it would fold neatly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#x9) - What I have done was in payment of an old score. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/#x10) ### Note Countable noun: a score, scores. Past: scored. «Score» (verb) takes the points: score 3 goals, score 90 on a test. «Scores of» means many (scores of people). Points to add, compare or average. Trap: «four score» in old texts means 4 × 20 = 80. Trap: a higher score is usually better, but in golf the lowest score wins. «Out of» gives the whole: 18 out of 20. ## In Jewish tradition Chronicles uses it to count soldiers, as in "four hundred three-score and ten thousand men." In the primary lessons: In school a score is a test mark (a score of 85 out of 100) or points in a game; scores are added, compared or averaged. In sport: score a goal, score a try, the final score, keep score. In stories: «What's the score?» asks how the game stands; «to settle a score» means to get back at someone. In old texts and the Bible «threescore years and ten» is 70 years. ### Examples - And they came to Elim, where were twelve springs of water, and three score and ten palm-trees; and they encamped there by the waters. (Torah EXO.15.27, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/score/#x1) - And the silver of them that were numbered of the congregation was a hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and three-score and fifteen shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary: (Torah EXO.38.25, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/score/#x2) - And as for the redemption of the two hundred and three score and thirteen of the first-born of the children of Israel, that are over and above the number of the Levites, (Torah NUM.3.46, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/score/#x3) - And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and a hundred thousand men that drew sword; and Judah was four hundred three-score and ten thousand men that drew sword. (Writings 1CH.21.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/score/#x4) ### Note Countable noun: a score, scores. Past: scored. «Score» (verb) takes the points: score 3 goals, score 90 on a test. «Scores of» means many (scores of people). Points to add, compare or average. Trap: «four score» in old texts means 4 × 20 = 80. Trap: a higher score is usually better, but in golf the lowest score wins. «Out of» gives the whole: 18 out of 20. ## On Mova - [Trees and pragmatics of «score» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/score/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«score» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/score.html) on Mova free. - [Trees and pragmatics of «score» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/score/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames. - [«score» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/score.html) on Mova free.