score

US: /ˈskɔɹ/
UK: /skˈɔː/

English Vietnamese dictionary

score /skɔ:/
  • danh từ
    • (thể dục,thể thao) sổ điểm, sổ bán thắng
      • to make a good score: làm bàn nhiều
    • vết rạch, đường vạch
    • dấu ghi nợ
      • to pay one's score: trả hết nợ
      • death pays (quits) all scores: chết là hết nợ
      • to pay off old scores: (nghĩa bóng) trả hết thù xưa
    • (âm nhạc) bản dàn bè
    • hai mươi, hàng hai chục; (số nhiều) nhiều
      • scores of people: nhiều người
    • lý do, căn cứ
      • the proposal was rejected on the score of absurdity: đề nghị ấy bị bác bỏ vì vô lý
    • (từ lóng) điều may
      • what a score!: thật là may mắn, thật là chó ngáp phải ruồi
    • (từ lóng) hành động chơi trội; lời nói áp đảo
    • (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) những sự thực, những thực tế của hoàn cảnh, những thực tế của cuộc sống
    • to go off at score
      • bắt đầu hết sức sôi nổi (tranh luận một vấn đề gì mình ưa thích)
  • động từ
    • (thể dục,thể thao) ghi điểm thắng
    • đạt được (thắng lợi)
      • to score a success: đạt được thắng lợi thành công
    • gạch, rạch, khắc, khía
    • ghi sổ nợ, đánh dấu nợ; (nghĩa bóng) ghi (một mối thù)
    • lợi thế, ăn may
      • that is where he scores: đây là chỗ hắn ăn may
    • (âm nhạc) soạn cho dàn nhạc, phối dàn nhạc
    • (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) chỉ trích kịch liệt, đả kích
    • to score off
      • (từ lóng) chơi trội, áp đảo

Advanced English dictionary

noun, verb
+ noun
points / goals, etc.
1 [C] the number of points, goals, etc. scored by each player or team in a game or competition: a high / low score + What's the score now? + The final score was 43. + I'll keep (the) score. + A penalty in the last minute of the game levelled the score 22.
2 [C] (especially AmE) the number of points sb gets for correct answers in a test: college entrance test scores + an IQ score of 120 + a perfect score
music
3 [C] a written or printed version of a piece of music showing what each instrument is to play or what each voice is to sing: an orchestral score + the score of Verdi's 'Requiem'
4 [C] the music written for a film/movie or play: The film picked up awards for best director and best original score.
twenty
5 [C] (plural score) a set or group of 20 or approximately 20: Several cabs and a score of cars were parked outside. + Doyle's success brought imitators by the score (= very many). + the biblical age of three score years and ten (= 70)
many
6 (scores) [pl.] very many: There were scores of boxes and crates, all waiting to be checked and loaded.
cut
7 [C] a cut in a surface, made with a sharp tool
facts about situation
8 (the score) [sing.] (informal) the real facts about the present situation: What's the score? + You don't have to lie to me. I know the score.
Idioms: on that / this score as far as that/this is concerned: You don't have to worry on that score.
more at EVEN v., SETTLE v.
+ verb
give / get points / goals
1 to win points, goals, etc. in a game or competition: [V] Fraser scored again in the second half. + [VN] to score a goal / try / touchdown / victory
2 [V] to keep a record of the points, goals, etc. won in a game or competition: Who's going to score?
3 to gain marks in a test or an exam: [VN] She scored 98% in the French test. + [V] Girls usually score highly in language exams.
4 [VN] to give sth/sb a particular number of points: The tests are scored by psychologists. + Score each criterion on a scale of 1 to 5. + a scoring system
5 [VN] to be worth a particular number of points: Each correct answer will score two points.
succeed
6 to succeed; to have an advantage: [VN] The army continued to score successes in the south. + [V] She's scored again with her latest blockbuster. + Bicycles score over other forms of transport in towns.
arrange / write music
7 [VN] [usually passive] ~ sth (for sth) to arrange a piece of music for one or more musical instruments or for voices: The piece is scored for violin, viola and cello. + The director invited him to score the movie (= write the music for it).
cut
8 [VN] to make a cut or mark on a surface: Score the card first with a knife.
have sex
9 [V] ~ (with sb) (slang) (especially of a man) to have sex with a new partner: Did you score last night?
buy drugs
10 [VN, V] (slang) to buy or get illegal drugs
Idioms: score a point / points (off / against / over sb) = SCORE OFF SB
Phrasal Verbs: score off sb [no passive] (especially BrE) to show that you are better than sb, especially by making clever remarks, for example in an argument: He was always trying to score off his teachers.
score sth<->out / through to draw a line or lines through sth: Her name had been scored out on the list.

Thesaurus dictionary

n.
1 record, account, reckoning, register, tally, amount, number, count, sum, total; mark, grade:
What was your best golf score? Chester got a score of 80 in the French test
2 nick, groove, scratch, line, mark, stroke, notch, cut, Archery nock:
Every time he won, he made a score on his walking-stick.
3 twenty:
And the days of our lives shall be three score years and ten.
4 Often, scores. dozens, hundreds, (tens or hundreds of) thousands, millions, number(s), drove(s), horde(s), host(s), multitude(s), herd(s), legion(s), lot(s), mass(es), myriad(s), shoal(s), pack(s), covey(s), bevy or bevies, swarm(s), flock(s), army or armies, crowd(s), throng(s):
Passengers by the score angrily protested against the airline's policy of overbooking flights. Scores of animals were fleeing before the forest fire.
5 music, accompaniment, Technical full or short or vocal score:
Boito might have written the libretto, but the score was by Verdi.
6 situation, story, news, status (quo), condition, word, Colloq latest, scoop, US poop:
What's the score on your applications to medical school?
7 dupe, gull, victim, greenhorn, Colloq fall guy, chump, goat, sitting duck, Slang sucker, patsy, mark, Brit mug:
That fellow in the Hawaiian shirt looks a likely score for our little scam
8 ground(s), basis, account, reason, rationale, provocation, cause:
On what score can you justify eliminating him from the competition?
9 settle or pay off or even a score or the score or old scores. get revenge, retaliate, get even, avenge, repay, get an eye for an eye, give tit for tat, give measure for measure, pay (someone) back in his or her own coin, give (someone) a taste or a dose of his or her or their own medicine, Colloq get one's own back:
He tried to find out where MacTavish moved had moved to as he had an old score to settle with him.
v.
10 mark, line, incise, scratch, nick, notch, cut, groove, graduate; scrape, deface, mar, gouge, slash:
The dipstick is scored at intervals to indicate how much oil is in the crankcase
11 gain or make a point or points, record, tally, account for:
George scored a hat trick in the game against Hotspurs.
12 count (for), reckon for or as:
The ace scores either 1 or 11 in vingt-et-un.
13 succeed, be successful, triumph, win, make an impression, have an impact, Colloq make a hit:
Your plan really scored with the boss.
14 succeed in seducing, Slang make out, get laid:
Did you score with Ava last night?

Collocation dictionary

1 in a game, competition, etc.

ADJ.

big, excellent, good, high, perfect, record, top | bad, low, poor | average, mean | close, level
The score was close in the final match.
| overall, total | final | cricket, football, etc.

VERB + SCORE

achieve, finish with, get, have | give (sb)
He got round the course in 72, giving him an average score of 70.
| make, take
A goal in the last few minutes took the score to 4?2.
| keep, record
I'll keep (the) score.
| level, tie
Figo levelled the scores with a curling free kick.

SCORE + VERB

be, stand at
At half-time the score stood at 3?0.

SCORE + NOUN

card
(also
scorecard
),
chart, sheet
Inamoto had a good game but failed to get his name on the score sheet (= failed to score).

PREP.

~ against
the best score for years against Italy

2 in a test

ADJ.

excellent, good, high, perfect, record, top | bad, low, poor | average, mean | aggregate, overall, total | IQ, test

VERB + SCORE

achieve, get, have, obtain | give sb | boost, increase
Some scientists claim that vitamins will boost your child's IQ score.

SCORE + VERB

range
Most ten-year-olds had scores ranging between 50 and 70.

PREP.

~ for
She got an unusually low score for creativity.

3 written music

ADJ.

full | music/musical | orchestral, piano, vocal
the vocal score of ‘The Magic Flute’
| film

VERB + SCORE

play, read, write

PREP.

in a/the ~
a mistake in the piano score

1 win points/goals, etc.

ADV.

nearly | easily
Cunningham broke away and ran some 40 metres to score easily.

VERB + SCORE

try to | manage to | fail to, have yet to
Peter Walker has yet to score this season.
| look likely to
Villa always looked the team most likely to score.

PREP.

against
The England team failed to score against Italy on Saturday.
| for
She has not yet scored for her new club.
| with
He scored with a neat header.

PHRASES

come close to scoring
It was Robertson who came closest to scoring.
| open the scoring
Zidane opened the scoring in the seventh minute of the game.

2 gain marks in a test

ADV.

highly, well
In the key area of negotiation, women scored highly.


Concise English dictionary

scores|scored|scoringskɔr /skɔː
noun
+a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
+a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
+a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
+a set of twenty members
+grounds
+the facts about an actual situation
+an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
+a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)
+a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
+the act of scoring in a game or sport
+a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
verb
+gain points in a game
+make small marks into the surface of
+make underscoring marks
+write a musical score for
+induce to have sex
+get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
+assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation



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