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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)

2. The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.

3. The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.

4. The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.

5. Twenty, 20 (number).
6. A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Halliwell to this entry?)

7. A weight of twenty pounds.
9. (music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
10. (music) The music of a movie or play.
11. 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.

12. 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.

13. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
14. An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.
15. (US, crime, slang) a criminal act, especially:
    1. A robbery.

    2. A bribe paid to a police officer.
    3. An illegal sale, especially of drugs.

    4. A prostitute's client.
16. (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)

1. (transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.

2. (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
3. (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."

   1. To earn points in a game.
   2. 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.

   3. (slang) To acquire or gain.

   4. (US, crime, slang, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
   5. (vulgar, slang) To obtain a sexual favor.

4. (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.

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!

1. (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)

1. A score, a number of points earned.

Declension

Verb

score

1. score a goal/point
2. land (to acquire; to secure)
3. (slang) steal
4. 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)

1. 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)

1. 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)

1. a score

Verb

score (imperative scor, present tense scorer, passive scores, simple past and past participle scora or scoret, present participle scorende)

1. 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)

1. a score

Verb

score (present tense scorar, past tense scora, past participle scora, passive infinitive scorast, present participle scorande, imperative scor)

1. to score (earn points in a game)

References

• “score” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Spanish

Etymology

From English score.

Noun

score m (plural scores)

1. (sports) score

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: b?, IPA^(key): /be?/
• Rhymes: -e?

Etymology 1

From Middle English baye, baie, from Old English be? (“berry”), as in be?b?am (“berry-tree”), conflated with Old French baie, from Latin b?ca (“berry”).

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (obsolete) A berry.
2. Laurus nobilis, a tree or shrub of the family Lauraceae, having dark green leaves and berries.
3. Bay leaf, the leaf of this or certain other species of tree or shrub, used as a herb.
4. (in the plural, now rare) The leaves of this shrub, woven into a garland used to reward a champion or victor; hence, fame, victory.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i:

     both you here with many a cursed oth, / Sweare she is yours, and stirre vp bloudie frayes, / To win a willow bough, whilest other weares the bayes.

   • 1771, John Trumbull, On the Vanity of Youthful Expectations

     The patriot's honours and the poet's bays.

5. (US, dialect) A tract covered with bay trees.
6. A kind of mahogany obtained from Campeche in Mexico.

Synonyms

• (Laurus nobilis): bay laurel, Grecian laurel, laurel, sweet bay, true laurel, bay tree
• (Garland symbolic of fame, victor): laurels

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From French baie, from Late Latin baia, probably ultimately from Iberian or Basque badia.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. (geography) A body of water (especially the sea) more or less three-quarters surrounded by land.
2. A bank or dam to keep back water.

Synonyms

• (body of water): gulf

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From French baie, from Old French baé, masculine singular past participle of the verb baer, from Medieval Latin bad? (“I am open”). More at bevel, badinage.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

2. An opening in a wall, especially between two columns.
3. An internal recess; a compartment or area surrounded on three sides.
4. The distance between two supports in a vault or building with a pitched roof.
5. (nautical) Each of the spaces, port and starboard, between decks, forward of the bitts, in sailing warships.
6. (rail transport) A bay platform.
7. A bay window.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 4

From Old French bay, combined with aphesized form of abay; verbal form of baier, abaier.

Noun

bay (plural bays)

1. The excited howling of dogs when hunting or being attacked.
2. (by extension) The climactic confrontation between hunting-dogs and their prey.
3. (figuratively) A state of being obliged to face an antagonist or a difficulty, when escape has become impossible.

   • Embolden'd by despair, he stood at bay.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     The most terrible evils are just kept at bay by incessant efforts.

Derived terms

• at bay

Translations

Verb

bay (third-person singular simple present bays, present participle baying, simple past and past participle bayed)

1. (intransitive) To howl.

   • The hounds at nearer distance hoarsely bay'd.

2. (transitive) To bark at; hence, to follow with barking; to bring or drive to bay.

   to bay the bear
3. (transitive) To pursue noisily, like a pack of hounds.

Derived terms

• bay at the moon

Translations

Etymology 5

From French baie, from Latin badius (“reddish brown, chestnut”).

Adjective

bay (comparative more bay, superlative most bay)

1. Of a reddish-brown colour (especially of horses).

Derived terms

• bay cat
• Bay Horse
• bay lynx
• En

Translations

Noun

bay (countable and uncountable, plural bays)

1. A brown colour/color of the coat of some horses.

2. A horse of this color.
   • 1877, George Nevile, Horses and Riding (page 105)

     […] browns are the soberest, bays are the worst tempered, and chestnuts are the most foolish.

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:bay.

Translations

See also

• abeyance
• badinage
• baize
• daphne
• voe
• Wikipedia article on bays in geography
• Appendix:Colors
• Wikipedia article on bay, the horse colour/color

Anagrams

• Aby, YBA, aby

Anguthimri

Noun

bay

1. (Mpakwithi) barracouta

References

• Terry Crowley, The Mpakwithi dialect of Anguthimri (1981), page 185

Cebuano

Etymology 1

Aphetic form of abay.

Noun

bay

1. an address to a male friend

Etymology 2

Compare balay.

Noun

bay

1. a house

Cornish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bæi/

Noun

bay m (plural bayow)

1. kiss

Mutation

Synonyms

• amm, abm
• cussyn

Related terms

• amma, abma

Crimean Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich

Declension

Guianese Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French bailler.

Verb

bay

1. to give

Synonyms

• ba
• ban

Hone

Noun

bay

1. dog

Further reading

• Anne Storch, Hone, in Coding Participant Marking: Construction Types in Twelve African Languages, edited by Gerrit Jan Dimmendaal

San Juan Guelavía Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño.

Noun

bay

1. rebozo

References

• López Antonio, Joaquín; Jones, Ted; Jones, Kris (2012) Vocabulario breve del Zapoteco de San Juan Guelavía?^[1] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Tlalpan, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., pages 13, 28

Tatar

Adjective

bay

1. rich, noble

Turkish

Etymology

Cognate with Old Turkic ????????? (b¹y¹ /bay/, “rich person, noble”), from Proto-Turkic *b?j (“rich, noble; many, numerous”).

The meaning “sir, gentleman” was coined during the language reforms in parallel to bey.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?baj/

Noun

bay (definite accusative bay?, plural baylar)

1. (countable) gentleman
2. (title used for a man) Mr.

Declension

Usage notes

Used as a title, the word is usually capitalized and followed by a person's name, often his surname or full name (as in “Bay Ahmet ??k”). This is unlike the more traditional title bey, which is used after a person's name, most commonly just his given name (as in “Ahmet Bey”).

Synonyms

• bey
• beyefendi

Derived terms

• albay
• yarbay
• bayan

Adjective

bay (comparative daha bay, superlative en bay)

1. (dialectal, otherwise dated) rich, wealthy

Declension

Synonyms

• zengin (rich)
• varl?kl? (rich)

Antonyms

• yoksul (poor)
• fakir (poor)
• zü?ürt (poor)

References

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [??aj??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [??aj??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [??a(?)j??]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Vietic *p?r, from Proto-Mon-Khmer *par; cognates include Muong p?l, Bahnar p?r, Pacoh pár and Mon ??? (p?).

Verb

bay • (????, ????)

1. to fly (travel through the air)
2. to flutter (flap or wave quickly but irregularly)
3. to fly (travel very fast)
4. to fade away

Derived terms

Adverb

bay

1. with ease; in a fast-paced manner

Etymology 2

Noun

(classifier cái) bay • (????)

1. trowel

Etymology 3

See bây.

Alternative forms

• bây

Pronoun

bay

1. (informal) you (second-person plural)

Related terms

• mày

References

• "bay" in H? Ng?c ??c, Free Vietnamese Dictionary Project (details)

Zoogocho Zapotec

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish paño (“cloth”), from Latin pannus.

Noun

bay

1. handkerchief
2. scarf

Derived terms

• bay cho?a ?e?e
• güex?oa bay

References

• Long C., Rebecca; Cruz M., Sofronio (2000) Diccionario zapoteco de San Bartolomé Zoogocho, Oaxaca (Serie de vocabularios y diccionarios indígenas “Mariano Silva y Aceves”; 38)?^[2] (in Spanish), second electronic edition, Coyoacán, D.F.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, A.C., page 5