score

IPA(Pronunciation)

/skɔː/

Verb

transitive intransitive slang US of a police officer vulgar

(transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface. / (intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination. / To earn points in a game.

Japanese Meaning

（他動詞）表面に切れ込みや溝を入れる / （自動詞）試合や競技などで得点を記録する / （自動詞）ゲームや試合で得点を獲得する

What is this buttons?

Before assembling the box, she used a chisel to score the wooden planks for the dovetail joints.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

箱を組み立てる前に、彼女は蟻継ぎのためにノミで木板に切り込みを入れた。

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Sense（1）

(transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.

A very neat old woman, still in her good outdoor coat and best beehive hat, was sitting at a polished mahogany table on whose surface there were several scored scratches so deep that a triangular piece of the veneer had come cleanly away, […].

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Sense（2）

(intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.

Sense（3）

To earn points in a game.

It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.

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Sense（4）

To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.

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Sense（5）

(gambling) To win money by gambling.

[…] he scored big by hitting the jack pot at the Bellagio (he won $7,000). The next day, he won $15,000 on the nickel machines at the Palm Casino!

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Sense（6）

(slang) To acquire or gain.

What am I doing in this place? / Why does the doctor have no face? / Oh, I can't crawl across the floor / Ah, can't you see, Sister Morphine, I'm trying to score

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