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

  • Perhaps too much TV, certainly too little hard work in schoolFourteen years ago, scores on the Scholastic Aptitude Tests, those college entrance exams taken with dread each.
  • Average scores on the SAT college entrance exam dipped slightly for the high school class of 2009, while gender, race and income gaps widened, according to figures released Tuesday .
  • Unhappy with the predictive value of credit scores, lenders look for more personal data.
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  • Barack Obama in CTV.ca
    The outpouring of love, gratitude and fond memories to which we have all borne witness is a testament to the way this singular figure in American history touched so many lives,Obama said. "His ideas and ideals are stamped on scores of laws...
  • Phil Mickelson in San Francisco Chronicle
    The golf course is very fair, very playable,an optimistic Mickelson said. "We obviously saw some scores out there, and if you struck it well, you could do that. You could make some birdies."
  • Lindsay Lohan in Entertainment and Showbiz! (blog)
    The troubled star took her Twitter account saying "Scores of federal defendants sentenced under a constitutionally perverted system that saps moral judgment through its mechanical rules.'"

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