Score

Score

Score may refer to:

Numbers and statistics

*Score (game), a number of points achieved in a sporting event or game.
*a unit of twenty, as in Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.
*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

*Dynamic scoring
*Static scoring

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 sexplotaition film
*"The Score" (film), a 2001 heist film starring Robert De Niro and Edward Norton
*"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 (scratched) and then pressed together
*A method of weakening paper or other thin sheets of materials prior to cutting, tearing or bending, by scratching a line along the area where the separation is to occur.
*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

*Singapore Corporation of Rehabilitative Enterprises, a Singapore statutory board under the Ministry of Home Affairs and was established on 1 April 1976.
*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


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  • score — score …   Dictionnaire des rimes

  • score — [ skɔr ] n. m. • 1896; mot angl. ♦ Marque, décompte des points au cours d un match. Le score est de 3 à 1. Un score sévère. Le score final. ♢ Classement, dans une compétition, un test (⇒ note). Score électoral. Améliorer son score. ● score nom… …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • SCORE — bezeichnet: einen Anglizismus für die Filmmusik eines bestimmten Films – und davon abgeleitet: ein Notensatzprogramm, siehe Score (Programm) einen Anglizismus für den Punktestand bei Spielen (insbesondere Computerspielen; vlg. Highscore Tabelle)… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Score — (sk[=o]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scored} (sk[=o]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Scoring}.] 1. To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Score — (sk[=o]r), n. [AS. scor twenty, fr. sceran, scieran, to shear, cut, divide; or rather the kindred Icel. skor incision, twenty, akin to Dan. skure a notch, Sw. sk[*a]ra. See {Shear}.] 1. A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • Score — ist: englische Bezeichnung für Musik Partitur englische Bezeichnung für Filmmusik Score (Film), jugoslawisch US amerikanischer Erotikfilm von Radley Metzger von 1972 Score 2, japanischer Actionthriller von Hitoshi Ozawa von 1999 englische… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • score — [skôr] n. [ME < OE scoru < ON skor < IE base * (s)ker , to cut > SHEAR] 1. a) a scratch, mark, incision, etc. [scores made on ice by skates] b) a line drawn or scratched, often to mark a starting point, etc. c) notches made in wood,… …   English World dictionary

  • score — [n1] total, points account, addition, aggregate, amount, average, count, final count, grade, mark, number, outcome, rate, reckoning, record, result, stock, sum, summary, summation, tab, tally; concepts 364,784 score / scores [n2] large group; a… …   New thesaurus

  • score — ► NOUN 1) the number of points, goals, runs, etc. achieved by an individual or side in a game. 2) (pl. same) a group or set of twenty. 3) (scores of) a large amount or number of. 4) a written representation of a musical composition showing all… …   English terms dictionary

  • Score — 〈[skɔ:(r)] m. 6〉 oV Skore 1. 〈Sp.〉 Spiel , Punktestand, Ergebnis eines Wettkampfes 2. 〈Psych.〉 Zahlen , Messwert, Testergebnis [engl., „Punkte , Spielstand; Rechnung“ <mengl. scor <anord. skor „Kerbe, Einschnitt, Kerbholz“] * * * Score [skɔ …   Universal-Lexikon

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