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grille
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French grille.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???l/
- Rhymes: -?l
Noun
grille (plural grilles)
- Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening" and "grating on the front of a vehicle")
- The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
Anagrams
- Giller
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ij/
Etymology 1
From Middle French grille, grisle, from Old French greille, graïlle, from earlier gradilie (end of 10th century), from Latin cr?ticula (or a Vulgar Latin graticula).
Noun
grille f (plural grilles)
- gate
- grate
- grid
Derived terms
- gril
- grille de départ
- griller
Descendants
- ? English: grille
- ? Italian: griglia
Etymology 2
Verb
grille
- first-person singular present indicative of griller
- third-person singular present indicative of griller
- first-person singular present subjunctive of griller
- third-person singular present subjunctive of griller
- second-person singular imperative of griller
Further reading
- “grille” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
German
Verb
grille
- inflection of grillen:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Limburgish
Alternative forms
- chrèlle
- chrille
- gkrèlle
- gkrille
- grèlle
Etymology
Borrowed from Dutch grillen, itself borrowed from English grill. Displaced older steinreustere.
Verb
grille
- to grill
Conjugation
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English grel (“harsh”). Compare German grell (“lurid, shrill”).
Adjective
grille
- gril, harsh, severe
- c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 71-4.
- The briddes, that han left hir song,
- Whyl they han suffred cold so strong
- In wedres grille, and derk to sighte,
- Ben in May, for the sonne brighte,
- c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 71-4.
Descendants
- English: gril
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
grille (imperative grill, present tense griller, passive grilles, simple past and past participle grilla or grillet, present participle grillende)
- to grill (food, in a grill)
- (figuratively) to grill (subject someone to intense questioning)
Related terms
- grill
References
- “grille” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Spanish
Verb
grille
- Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of grillar.
- First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of grillar.
- Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of grillar.
- Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted?) present subjunctive form of grillar.
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score
English
Etymology
From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skur? (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeran? (“to cut”).
Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.(For twenty: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: skôr, IPA(key): /sk??/
- (General American) enPR: skôr?, IPA(key): /sk??/
- (rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) enPR: sk?r?, IPA(key): /sko(?)?/
- (non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger) IPA(key): /sko?/
- Rhymes: -??(?)
Noun
score (plural scores)
- The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
- The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
- The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
- Twenty, 20 (number).
- A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)
- A weight of twenty pounds.
- (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
- (music) The music of a movie or play.
- Subject.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 245e.
- Well, although we haven't discussed the views of all those who make precise reckonings of being and not [being], we've done enough on that score.
- 2005, Plato, Sophist. Translation by Lesley Brown. 245e.
- Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
- But left the trade, as many more / Have lately done on the same score.
- 1665, John Dryden, The Indian Emperour
- You act your kindness on Cydria's score.
- A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
- An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
- (US, crime, slang) a criminal act, especially:
- A robbery.
- A bribe paid to a police officer.
- An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
- A prostitute's client.
- A robbery.
- (US, vulgar, slang) A sexual conquest.
Usage notes
As a quantity, a score is counted as any other unit: ten score, twelve score, fourteen score, etc. (or tenscore, twelvescore). There is no word for 202; rather, twenty score is used, and twice that forty score.
Synonyms
- (prostitute's client): see Thesaurus:prostitute's client
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
score (third-person singular simple present scores, present participle scoring, simple past and past participle scored)
- (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
- (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
- (transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 50
- "Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did. After all, I've scored by it."
- To earn points in a game.
- To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
- 2004, Diane McGuinness, Early reading instruction: what science really tells us about how to teach reading
- At the end of first grade, the children scored 80 percent correct on this test, a value that remained unchanged through third grade.
- 2004, Diane McGuinness, Early reading instruction: what science really tells us about how to teach reading
- (slang) To acquire or gain.
- (US, crime, slang, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
- (vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 50
- (transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
- 1974, New York Magazine (volume 7, number 45, page 98)
- Godfather II is nothing like ready. It is not yet scored, and thus not mixed. There remain additional shooting, looping, editing.
- 1974, New York Magazine (volume 7, number 45, page 98)
Synonyms
- (to cut a groove in a surface): groove, notch
- (to record the score): keep, score, tally
- (to earn points in a game):
- (to achieve a score in a test):
- (to acquire or gain): come by, earn, obtain; see also Thesaurus:receive
- (to extract a bribe): shake down
- (to obtain a sexual favor): pull
- (to provide with a musical score): soundtrack
Derived terms
Descendants
- ?? Irish: scóráil
Translations
Interjection
score!
- (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success
See also
- grade
References
- Tom Dalzell, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, 2008, page 846
Anagrams
- Corse, Crose, ROCEs, Secor, Sorce, ceros, cores, corse, creos, ocres
Danish
Etymology
Borrowed from English score.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sko?r?/, [?s??o??]
Noun
score c (singular definite scoren, plural indefinite scorer)
- A score, a number of points earned.
Declension
Verb
score
- score a goal/point
- land (to acquire; to secure)
- (slang) steal
- persuade (someone) to have sex with oneself [from 1959]
Conjugation
Derived terms
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English score.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?sko?.r?/
- Hyphenation: sco?re
Noun
score m (plural scores, diminutive scoretje n)
- score (number of points earned)
Derived terms
- scorebord
Related terms
- scoren
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English score.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sk??/
Noun
score m (plural scores)
- score (in a sport, game)
Derived terms
- scorer
Further reading
- “score” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- corse, Corse
- ocres
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- (of noun) skår
- (of verb) skåre
Etymology
Via English score, from Old Norse skor. Related to Old Norse skera (modern Norwegian Bokmål skjære).
Noun
score m (definite singular scoren, indefinite plural scorer, definite plural scorene)
- a score
Verb
score (imperative scor, present tense scorer, passive scores, simple past and past participle scora or scoret, present participle scorende)
- to score (earn points in a game)
Derived terms
- scorer
- scoring
- scoringsposisjon
- scoringssjanse
References
- “score” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
- “score” in The Ordnett Dictionary
Norwegian Nynorsk
Alternative forms
- (of noun) skår
- (of verb) skåre, skåra
- (of verb) scora
Etymology
Borrowed from English score. Doublet of skòr.
Noun
score m (definite singular scoren, indefinite plural scorar, definite plural scorane)
- a score
Verb
score (present tense scorar, past tense scora, past participle scora, passive infinitive scorast, present participle scorande, imperative scor)
- to score (earn points in a game)
References
- “score” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Spanish
Etymology
From English score.
Noun
score m (plural scores)
- (sports) score
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