Score Scored Half Goal/Try/Touchdown/Victory Test Scoring Verb Bre

• fraser scored again in the second half.
• to score a goal/try/touchdown/victory
• who's going to score?
• she scored 98% in the french test.

score

1. to win points, goals, etc. in a game or competition
• Fraser scored again in the second half.
• to score a goal/try/touchdown/victory
2. to keep a record of the points, goals, etc. won in a game or competition
• See related entries: Soccer
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/soccer/score_8
• Who's going to score?
3. to gain marks in a test or an exam
• She scored 98% in the French test.
• Girls usually score highly in language exams.
4. to give something/somebody 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. to be worth a particular number of points
• Each correct answer will score two points.
6. to succeed; to have an advantage
• The army continued to score successes in the south.
• She's scored again with her latest blockbuster.
• Bicycles score over other forms of transport in towns.
7. 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).
8. to make a cut or mark on a surface
• Score the card first with a knife.
9. to have sex with a new partner
• Did you score last night?
10. to buy or get illegal drugs
• = score off somebody
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/score-off

Extra Examples

• Cunningham broke away and ran some 40 metres to score easily.
• Cunningham broke away and scored easily.
• He scored with a neat header.
• In the key area of negotiation, women scored highly.
• It was Robertson who came closest to scoring.
• Peter Walker has yet to score this season.
• Ronaldinho opened the scoring in the seventh minute of the game.
• Schumacher is ready to score at his home track again.
• She has not yet scored for her new club.
• The England team failed to score against Italy on Saturday.
• The company scores highly on customer service.
• The crowd erupted when the Green Bay Packers scored against the Denver Broncos.
• Villa always looked likely to score.
• Villa always looked the team most likely to score.
• We had several chances to score in the second half.
• Women consistently scored higher than men in this test.
• to score a goal/try/touchdown/victory

Verb Forms

• present simple I / you / we / they score
• he / she / it scores
• past simple scored
• past participle scored
• -ing form scoring

Word Origin

• late Old English scoru ‘set of twenty’, from Old Norse skor ‘notch, tally, twenty’, of Germanic origin; related to shear. The verb (late Middle English) is from Old Norse skora ‘make an incision’.