Dictionary Definition
scores n : a large number or amount; "made lots
of new friends"; "she amassed a mountain of newspapers" [syn:
tons, dozens, heaps, lots, mountain, piles, stacks, loads, rafts, slews, wads, oodles, gobs, scads, lashings]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
scores- Plural of score
Verb
scores- third-person singular of score
Extensive Definition
Score may refer to:
Numbers and statistics
- Score (game), a number of points achieved in a sporting event or game.
- a unit of twenty
- Score (statistics), the derivative, with respect to some parameter θ, of the logarithm of the likelihood function
- Raw score, an original datum that has not been transformed
- Standard score, a dimensionless quantity derived from the raw score
- Baseball scoring, a shorthand method of keeping track of statistics in a baseball game
Economics
Arts and crafts
- Musical score, a set of instructions giving the overall picture of a composition
- Dance score, a set of choreographic instructions expressed in a dance notation.
- SCORE notation program, a music scorewriter
- Film score, a sound recording of the music in a film
- Score (album), the live CD/DVD by progressive metal band Dream Theater
- Score (film), a 1972 pornographic film
- Score, a UK-based football comic, originally Score and Roar, published in 1970, merged with rival comic Scorcher in 1971
- A method used to join two pieces of pottery, each side is scored and then pressed together
- I Like to Score, an album by Moby, punning on the sexual, drug related, and film music uses of the word
Media
- Final Score/Score, a BBC soccer programme
- Score, a sports trading card brand
- Score (magazine), a pornographic magazine
- SCORE, a Czech games magazine
- SCORE (Spain), a free general sports magazine
- SCORE (television), a defunct joint television network
- Score Entertainment, makers of the Dragon Ball Z trading card game
- Score Inverness, a former radio company
- SCORE (306) Radio: Counselors to America's Small Business, a radio show hosted by SCORE Westchester, Chapter 306
Figurative uses
- a slang term for the verb of sexual intercourse or related sexual activity
Organisations
- SCORE Association, originally an acronym for Service Corps of Retired Executives, a resource partner with the Small Business Administration
- SCORE! Educational Centers
- SCORE International, an Offroad racing organization
- Acronym for the "Statistics, Computing, Operational Research and Economics" degree programme offered by University College London
Various
- Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite
- Scores (strip club) in New York City
- Scores (computer virus), an early computer virus affecting Macintosh computers
scores in German: Score
scores in French: Score
scores in Dutch: Score
scores in Japanese: スコア
scores in Norwegian: Score
scores in Simple English: Score
scores in Serbian: Партитура
scores in Swedish: Lista över
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