What does score mean?

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[n] a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)(she made good marks in algebra grade A milk what was your score on your homework?)[v] gain points in a game(The home team scored many times He hit a home run He hit .300 in the past season)[n] a written form

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[n] a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance)
(she made good marks in algebra grade A milk what was your score on your homework?)

[v] gain points in a game
(The home team scored many times He hit a home run He hit .300 in the past season)

[n] a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages
(he studied the score of the sonata)

[v] make small marks into the surface of
(score the clay before firing it)

[n] a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest
(the score was 7 to 0)

[v] make underscoring marks

[n] a set of twenty members
(a score were sent out but only one returned)

[v] write a musical score for

[n] grounds
(don't do it on my account the paper was rejected on account of its length he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful)

[v] induce to have sex
(Harry finally seduced Sally Did you score last night? Harry made Sally)

[n] the facts about an actual situation
(he didn't know the score)

[v] get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance
(She scored high on the SAT He scored a 200)

[n] an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar)
(add it to my score and I'll settle later)

[v] assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation
(grade tests score the SAT essays mark homework)

[n] a slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)

[n] a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation
(holding a grudge settling a score)

[n] the act of scoring in a game or sport
(the winning score came with less than a minute left to play)

[n] a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
(calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang)

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The first recorded dictionaries date back to Sumerian times around 2300 BCE, in the form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical dictionary was A Table Alphabeticall, written in 1604, and monolingual dictionaries in other languages also began appearing in Europe at around this time. The systematic study of dictionaries as objects of scientific interest arose as a 20th-century enterprise, called lexicography, and largely initiated by Ladislav Zgusta. The birth of the new discipline was not without controversy, with the practical dictionary-makers being sometimes accused by others of having an "astonishing" lack of method and critical-self reflection.