Reason vs Score - What's the difference?
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A cause:
# That which causes something: an efficient cause, a proximate cause.
#* 1996 , (w), : Evolution and the Meanings of Life , page 198:
# A motive for an action or a determination.
#* 1806 , Anonymous, Select Notes to Book XXI, in, (Alexander Pope), translator, The (Odyssey) of (Homer) , volume 6 (London, F.J. du Roveray), page 37:
#* 1881 , (Henry James), (The Portrait of a Lady) , chapter 10:
# An excuse: a thought or a consideration offered in support of a determination or an opinion; that which is offered or accepted as an explanation.
#* 1966 , (Graham Greene), ((Penguin Classics) edition, ISBN 0140184945), page 14:
(label) Rational]] thinking (or the capacity for it; the cognitive [[faculty, faculties, collectively, of conception, judgment, deduction and intuition.
* 1970 , (Hannah Arendt), On Violence (ISBN 0156695006), page 62:
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, title= (label) Something reasonable, in accordance with thought; justice.
* (rfdate) (Edmund Spenser):
Ratio; proportion.
To exercise the rational faculty; to deduce inferences from premises; to perform the process of deduction or of induction; to ratiocinate; to reach conclusions by a systematic comparison of facts.
Hence: To carry on a process of deduction or of induction, in order to convince or to confute; to formulate and set forth propositions and the inferences from them; to argue.
To converse; to compare opinions.
To arrange and present the reasons for or against; to examine or discuss by arguments; to debate or discuss.
(rare) To support with reasons, as a request.
To persuade by reasoning or argument.
To overcome or conquer by adducing reasons.
To find by logical process; to explain or justify by reason or argument.
The total number of points earned by a participant in a game.
The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
(cricket) A presentation of how many runs a side has scored, and how many wickets have been lost.
(cricket) The number of runs scored by a batsman, or by a side, in either an innings or a match.
Twenty, 20 (number ).
* 1863 November 19, (Abraham Lincoln), , based on the signed "Bliss Copy"
A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
A weight of twenty pounds.
(music) One or more parts of a musical composition in a format indicating how the composition is to be played.
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* 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
* Hudibras
* Dryden
A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
* Shakespeare
An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
* Shakespeare
(US, crime, slang) A robbery; a criminal act.
(US, crime, slang) A bribe paid to a police officer.
(US, crime, slang) An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
(US, crime, slang) A prostitute's client.
(US, slang) A sexual conquest.
To earn points in a game.
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To earn (points) in a game.
To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
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To record (the score) for a game or a match.
To scratch (paper or cardboard) with a sharp implement to make it easier to fold.
To make fine, shallow lines with a sharp implement, for example as cutting indications.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
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, chapter=Foreword (slang) To have sexual intercourse.
(slang) To acquire or gain.
To obtain something desired.
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To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
(US, crime, slang, transitive, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
In intransitive terms the difference between reason and score
is that reason is to converse; to compare opinions while score is to obtain something desired.In transitive terms the difference between reason and score
is that reason is to persuade by reasoning or argument while score is to provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.As an interjection score is
acknowledgement of success.reason
English
(wikipedia reason)Noun
(en noun)- There is a reason why so many should be symmetrical: The selective advantage in a symmetrical complex is enjoyed by all the subunits
- This is the reason why he proposes to offer a libation, to atone for the abuse of the day by their diversions.
- Ralph Touchett, for reasons best known to himself, had seen fit to say that Gilbert Osmond was not a good fellow
- I have forgotten the reason' he gave for not travelling by air. I felt sure that it was not the correct ' reason , and that he suffered from a heart trouble which he kept to himself.
- And the specific distinction between man and beast is now, strictly speaking, no longer reason (the lumen naturale of the human animal) but science
Magician’s brain, passage=The [Isaac] Newton that emerges from the [unpublished] manuscripts is far from the popular image of a rational practitioner of cold and pure reason . The architect of modern science was himself not very modern. He was obsessed with alchemy.}}
- I was promised, on a time, To have reason for my rhyme.
- (Barrow)
Synonyms
* (that which causes) cause * (motive for an action) rationale, motive * (thought offered in support) excuseDerived terms
* age of reason * everything happens for a reason * for some reason * for no good reason * for XYZ reason * have reason * in reason * instrumental reason * reasonability * reasonable * reasonableness * reasonist * reasonless * rhyme or reason * stand to reason * unreason * with reason * within reasonVerb
(en verb)- I reasoned the matter with my friend.
- to reason''' one into a belief; to '''reason one out of his plan
- to reason down a passion
- to reason''' out the causes of the librations of the moon
Derived terms
* reasoner * reason outStatistics
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English
(wikipedia score)Noun
(en noun)- "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
- (Halliwell)
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
- Well, although we haven't discussed the views of all those who make precise reckonings of being and not [being], we've done enough on that score .
- But left the trade, as many more / Have lately done on the same score .
- You act your kindness in Cydria's score .
- Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.
- He parted well, and paid his score .
Derived terms
* go off at score * scorecard * film score * threescore * fourscore * scorelessVerb
(scor)- Pelé scores again!
citation, page= , passage=And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.}}
- It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.
- At the end of first grade, the children scored 80 percent correct on this test, a value that remained unchanged through third grade.
citation, passage=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, […].}}
- The baker scored the cake so the servers would know where to slice it.
- Chris finally scored with Pat last week.
- Did you score tickets for the concert?
- "Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did. After all, I've scored by it."