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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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English
Etymology
From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *poka (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkô, *pukô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke ("sack or bag"). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?p?k?t/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?p?k?t/
- Hyphenation: pock?et
- Rhymes: -?k?t
Noun
pocket (plural pockets)
- A bag stitched to an item of clothing, used for carrying small items.
- Such a receptacle seen as housing someone's money; hence, financial resources.
- I paid for it out of my own pocket.
- 2012, Simon Heffer, "In Fagin's Footsteps", Literary Review, 403:
- There was, for much of the period, no cheap public transport; and even the Underground, or one of Shillibeer's horse-drawn omnibuses, was beyond the pocket of many of the poor.
- (sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.
- An enclosed volume of one substance surrounded by another.
- She knew from avalanche safety courses that outstretched hands might puncture the ice surface and alert rescuers. She knew that if victims ended up buried under the snow, cupped hands in front of the face could provide a small pocket of air for the mouth and nose. Without it, the first breaths could create a suffocating ice mask.
- (Australia) An area of land surrounded by a loop of a river.
- (Australian rules football) The area of the field to the side of the goal posts (four pockets in total on the field, one to each side of the goals at each end of the ground). The pocket is only a roughly defined area, extending from the behind post, at an angle, to perhaps about 30 meters out.
- (American football) The region directly behind the offensive line in which the quarterback executes plays.
- (military) An area where military units are completely surrounded by enemy units.
- (rugby) The position held by a second defensive middle, where an advanced middle must retreat after making a touch on the attacking middle.
- A large bag or sack formerly used for packing various articles, such as ginger, hops, or cowries; the pocket of wool held about 168 pounds.
- (architecture) A hole or space covered by a movable piece of board, as in a floor, boxing, partitions, etc.
- (mining) A cavity in a rock containing a nugget of gold, or other mineral; a small body of ore contained in such a cavity.
- (nautical) A strip of canvas sewn upon a sail so that a batten or a light spar can placed in the interspace.
- The pouch of an animal.
- (bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.
- A socket for receiving the base of a post, stake, etc.
- A bight on a lee shore.
- (dentistry) A small space between a tooth and the adjoining gum, formed by an abnormal separation of the two.
- A small, isolated group or area.
Derived terms
Related terms
- poke
Translations
Further reading
- Pocket in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
Verb
pocket (third-person singular simple present pockets, present participle pocketing, simple past and past participle pocketed)
- (transitive) To put (something) into a pocket.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.
- (transitive, slang) To take and keep (something, especially money that is not one's own).
- Record executives pocketed most of the young singer's earnings.
- (transitive, slang) To shoplift; to steal. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- The thief was caught on camera pocketing the diamond.
- (transitive, slang, dated) To put up with; to bear without complaint.
- 1810, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Register (page 557)
- As long as the house suffered the practice to prevail, they must submit to pocket the insult of being told that it existed.
- 1810, Great Britain. Parliament, The Parliamentary Register (page 557)
Synonyms
- (in billiards, etc): pot
- (take and keep, etc): trouser
Derived terms
- pocket up
Translations
Adjective
pocket (not comparable)
- Of a size suitable for putting into a pocket.
- a pocket dictionary
- Smaller or more compact than usual.
- pocket battleship, pocket beach
- 1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger
- She ate, drank, worked, danced, and made love in exactly the same way: con brio. She came into the apartment like a pocket hurricane.
- (Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.
- a pocket pair of kings
Synonyms
- (of a size suitable for a pocket): pocket-size, pocket-sized
Translations
Derived terms
See also
- bag
- pouch
- purse
- sack
References
- “pocket”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
Cornish
Noun
pocket m (plural pocketow or pocketys)
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English pocket.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?p?.k?t/
- Hyphenation: poc?ket
Noun
pocket m (plural pockets)
- A pocket book, a portable book of compact size, usually a paperback.
Derived terms
- pocketwoordenboek
Swedish
Noun
pocket c
- paperback; book with flexible binding
Declension
Synonyms
- pocketbok
Yola
Alternative forms
- pucket
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun
- a lump of bread
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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