<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>The record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or match.</li><li>The total points or strokes made by one side, individual, play, game, etc.</li><li>An act or instance of making or earning a point or points.</li><li>Education, Psychology: the performance of an individual or sometimes of a group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol.</li><li>A notch, scratch, or incision; a stroke or line.</li><li>A notch or mark for keeping an account or record.</li><li>A reckoning or account so kept; tally.</li><li>Any account showing indebtedness.</li><li>An amount recorded as due.</li><li>A line drawn as a boundary, the starting point of a race, a goal line, etc.</li><li>A group or set of 20: about a score of years ago.</li><li>Scores, a great many: Scores of people were at the dance.</li><li>A reason, ground, or cause: to complain on the score of low pay.</li><li>Informal: the basic facts, point of progress, etc., regarding a situation: What's the score on Saturday's picnic?</li><li>A successful move, remark, etc.</li><li>Music: a written or printed piece of music with all the vocal and instrumental parts arranged on staves, one under the other.</li><li>The music itself.</li><li>The music played as background to or part of a movie, play, or television presentation.</li><li>Slang: a success in finding a willing sexual partner; sexual conquest.</li><li>A purchase or acquisition of illicit drugs, as heroin or cocaine.</li><li>A single payoff obtained through graft by a police officer, especially from a narcotics violator.</li><li>A successful robbery; theft.</li><li>Any success, triumph, happy acquisition, gift, or win.</li><li>The victim of a robbery or swindle.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To gain for addition to one's score in a game or match.</li><li>To make a score of: He scored 98 on the test.</li><li>To have as a specified value in points: Four aces score 100.</li><li>Education, Psychology: to evaluate the responses a person has made on (a test or an examination).</li><li>Music: to orchestrate.</li><li>To write out in score.</li><li>To compose the music for (a movie, play, television show, etc.).</li><li>Cooking: to cut ridges or lines into (meat, fish, etc.) with shallow slashes, usually in a diamond pattern, before cooking.</li><li>To make notches, cuts, marks, or lines in or on.</li><li>To record or keep a record of (points, items, etc.), by or as if by notches, marks, etc.; tally; reckon (often followed by up).</li><li>To write down as a debt.</li><li>To record as a debtor.</li><li>To gain, achieve, or win: The play scored a great success.</li><li>Slang: to obtain (a drug) illicitly.</li><li>To steal.</li><li>To acquire; be given.</li><li>To berate or censure: The newspapers scored the mayor severely for the announcement.</li><li>To crease (paper or cardboard) so that it can be folded easily and without damage.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb (used without object)</strong></p><ul><li>To make a point or points in a game or contest.</li><li>To keep score, as of a game.</li><li>To achieve an advantage or a success: The new product scored with the public.</li><li>To make notches, cuts, lines, etc.</li><li>To run up a score or debt.</li><li>Slang: to succeed in finding a willing sexual partner; have sexual intercourse.</li><li>To purchase or obtain drugs illicitly.</li><li>To elicit and accept a bribe.</li></ul>