Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scoring"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Score \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 lash.

Let us score their backs. --Shak.

A briar in that tangled wilderness Had scored her
white right hand. --M. Arnold.

2. Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for
indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a
tally.

3. To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or
account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

Madam, I know when, Instead of five, you scored me
ten. --Swift.

Nor need I tallies thy dear love to score. --Shak.

4. To engrave, as upon a shield. [R.] --Spenser.

5. To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.

6. (Mus.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as,
to score an overture for an orchestra. See {Score}, n., 9.

7. (Geol.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the
rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in
the drift epoch.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Scorn \Scorn\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Scorned} (sk[^o]rnd); p. pr.
& vb. n. {Scoring}.] [OE. scornen, scarnen, schornen, OF.
escarnir, escharnir. See {Scorn}, n.]
1. To hold in extreme contempt; to reject as unworthy of
regard; to despise; to contemn; to disdain.

I scorn thy meat; 't would choke me. --Shak.

This my long sufferance, and my day of grace, Those
who neglect and scorn shall never taste. --Milton.

We scorn what is in itself contemptible or
disgraceful. --C. J. Smith.

2. To treat with extreme contempt; to make the object of
insult; to mock; to scoff at; to deride.

His fellow, that lay by his bed's side, Gan for to
laugh, and scorned him full fast. --Chaucer.

To taunt and scorn you thus opprobriously. --Shak.

Syn: To contemn; despise; disdain. See {Contemn}.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

scoring
n : evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score;
"what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he
had to do" [syn: {marking}, {grading}]


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