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Quote:If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?[Vince Lombardi]

Quote:My idea of courage is the guy who has $500,000 tied up in the stock market and turns to the box scores first![Earl Wilson]

Quote:Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game. [Donald Trump]



Definitions of: score

Definition: A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

Definition: An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.

Definition: Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

Definition: The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.

Definition: A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

Definition: A weight of twenty pounds.

Definition: The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

Definition: A line drawn; a groove or furrow.

Definition: The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; -- so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.

Definition: the grade received on an examination, such as those given in school or as a qualifying examination for a job or admission to school; -- it may be expressed as a percentage of answers which are correct, or as a number or letter; as, a score of 98 in a civil service exam.

Definition: To keep the score in a game; to act as scorer.

Definition: To make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally.

Definition: To run up a score, or account of dues.

Definition: To succeed in finding a partner for sexual intercourse; to make a sexual conquest.

Definition: To purchase drugs illegally.

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