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Score is a related term of catch.


As verbs the difference between score and catch

is that score is while catch is (lb) to capture, overtake .

As a noun catch is

(countable) the act of seizing or capturing (jump).

score

English

(wikipedia score)

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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"
  • "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."
  • A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
  • (Halliwell)
  • 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.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-29, volume=407, issue=8842, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title= 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.}}
  • Subject.
  • * 2005 , (Plato), Sophist . Translation by Lesley Brown. .
  • 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 .
  • Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
  • * Hudibras
  • But left the trade, as many more / Have lately done on the same score .
  • * Dryden
  • You act your kindness in Cydria's score .
  • 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
  • Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used.
  • An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He parted well, and paid his score .
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * (sense, prostitute's client) see

    Derived terms

    * go off at score * scorecard * film score * threescore * fourscore * scoreless

    Verb

    (scor)
  • To earn points in a game.
  • Pelé scores again!
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2011 , date=September 29 , author=Jon Smith , title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=And White Hart Lane was stunned when Rovers scored just five minutes after the restart in front of their away following.}}
  • To earn (points) in a game.
  • It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.
  • To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.
  • * 2004 , Diane McGuinness, Early reading instruction: what science really tells up about how to teach readin
  • At the end of first grade, the children scored 80 percent correct on this test, a value that remained unchanged through third grade.
  • 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)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=Foreword 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.
  • (slang) To have sexual intercourse.
  • Chris finally scored with Pat last week.
  • (slang) To acquire or gain.
  • Did you score tickets for the concert?
  • To obtain something desired.
  • * 1919 ,
  • "Of course it would be hypocritical for me to pretend that I regret what Abraham did. After all, I've scored by it."
  • To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
  • (US, crime, slang, transitive, of a police officer) To extract a bribe.
  • Derived terms

    * scorable * score a brace * score off, score-off * unscored

    Interjection

    (en-interjection)!
  • (US, slang) Acknowledgement of success
  • See also

    * grade

    References

    * Tom Dalzell, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English , 2008, page 846

    Anagrams

    * * ----

    catch

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) The act of seizing or capturing. (jump)
  • The catch of the perpetrator was the product of a year of police work.
  • (countable) The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
  • The player made an impressive catch .
    Nice catch !
  • (countable) The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
  • Good catch . I never would have remembered that.
  • (uncountable) The game of catching a ball. (jump)
  • The kids love to play catch .
  • (countable) A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
  • Did you see his latest catch ?
    He's a good catch .
  • (countable) Something which is captured or caught. (jump) (jump)
  • The fishermen took pictures of their catch .
    The catch amounted to five tons of swordfish.
  • (countable) A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
  • She installed a sturdy catch to keep her cabinets closed tight.
  • (countable) A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
  • There was a catch in his voice when he spoke his father's name.
  • It sounds like a great idea, but what's the catch ?
    Be careful, that's a catch question.
  • (countable) A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
  • I bent over to see under the table and got a catch in my side.
  • (countable) A fragment of music or poetry. (jump)
  • * {{quote-book, 1852, Mrs M.A. Thompson, chapter=The Tutor's Daughter, Graham's American Monthly Magazine of Literature, Art, and Fashion, page=266 citation
  • , passage=In the lightness of my heart I sang catches of songs as my horse gayly bore me along the well-remembered road.}}
  • (obsolete) A state of readiness to capture or seize; an ambush.
  • * {{quote-book, 1678,
  • , passage=You lie at the catch again: this is not for edification.}}
  • * T. Fuller
  • The common and the canon law lie at catch , and wait advantages one against another.
  • (countable, agriculture) A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
  • * {{quote-book, 1905, , Eighth Biennial Report of the Board of Horticulture of the State of Oregon, page=204 citation
  • , passage=There was a good catch of rye and a good fall growth.}}
  • (obsolete) A type of strong boat, usually having two masts; a ketch.
  • * 1612 , John Smith, Map of Virginia , in Kupperman 1988, p. 158:
  • Fourteene miles Northward from the river Powhatan, is the river Pamaunke, which is navigable 60 or 70 myles, but with Catches and small Barkes 30 or 40 myles farther.
  • (countable, music) A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
  • * 1610 , , act 3 scene 2
  • Let us be jocund: will you troll the catch / You taught me but while-ere?
  • * {{quote-book, 1966, Allen Tate, T. S. Eliot: The Man and His Work, page=76 citation
  • , passage=One night, I remember, we sang a catch , written (words and music) by Orlo Williams, for three voices. }}
  • (countable, music) The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse. (jump)
  • * {{quote-book, 2003, Robert Hugh Benson, Come Rack! Come Rope!, page=268 citation
  • , passage=The phrase repeated itself like the catch of a song. }}
  • (countable, cricket, baseball) The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
  • * {{quote-news, 1997, May 10, Henry Blofeld, Cricket: Rose and Burns revive Somerset, The Independent citation
  • , passage=It was he who removed Peter Bowler with the help of a good catch at third slip.}}
  • (countable, cricket) A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
  • * {{quote-news, 1894, September 16, , To Meet Lord Hawke's Team, The New York Times citation
  • , passage=
  • (countable, rowing) The first contact of an oar with the water.
  • * {{quote-news, 1935, June 7, Robert F. Kelley, California Crews Impress at Debut, The New York Times, page=29 citation
  • , passage= They are sitting up straighter, breaking their arms at the catch' and getting on a terrific amount of power at the ' catch with each stroke.}}
  • (countable, phonetics) A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
  • * {{quote-book, 2006, Mitsugu Sakihara et al., Okinawan-English Wordbook citation
  • , passage=The glottal stop or glottal catch is the sound used in English in the informal words uh-huh 'yes' and uh-uh 'no'.}}
  • Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
  • * John Locke
  • It has been writ by catches with many intervals.
  • A slight remembrance; a trace.
  • * Glanvill
  • We retain a catch of those pretty stories.

    Synonyms

    * (jump) seizure, capture, collar, snatch * grasp, snatch * observation * prize, find; conquest, beau * (jump) haul, take * stop, chock; clasp, latch * snag, problem; trick, gimmick, hitch * (jump) snatch, fragment; snippet, bit * (jump) chorus, refrain, burden

    Derived terms

    * bycatch * catch fence * catchful * catchy * crowd catch

    Verb

  • (lb) To capture, overtake.
  • #(lb) To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape). (jump)
  • #:
  • #(lb) To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
  • #*1611 , :
  • #*:And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.
  • # To marry or enter into a similar relationship with.
  • #*1933 , (Sinclair Lewis), Ann Vickers , p.108:
  • #*:The publicsaid that Miss Bogardus was a suffragist because she had never caught a man; that she wanted something, but it wasn't the vote.
  • #*2006 , Michael Collier and Georgia Machemer, Medea , p.23:
  • #*:As for Aspasia, concubinage with Pericles brought her as much honor as she could hope to claim in Athens..
  • #(lb) To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
  • #:
  • #*{{quote-news, year=2011, date=September 28, author=Jon Smith, work=BBC Sport
  • , title= Valencia 1-1 Chelsea , passage=The visitors started brightly and had an early chance when Valencia's experienced captain David Albeda gifted the ball to Fernando Torres, but the striker was caught by defender Adil Rami as he threatened to shoot.}}
  • #(lb) To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To discover unexpectedly; to surprise (someone doing something).
  • #:
  • #(lb) To travel by means of.
  • #:
  • #*1987 , , In the Name of the Father , p.111:
  • #*:After about a kilometer I caught a taxi to Santa Croce.
  • #
  • #*2002 , Orpha Caton, Shadow on the Creek , pp.102-103:
  • #*:Had Nancy got caught with a child? If so she would destroy her parent's dreams for her.
  • (lb) To seize hold of.
  • #
  • #:
  • #*, III.2:
  • #*:Her aged Nourse, whose name was Glaucè hight, / Feeling her leape out of her loathed nest, / Betwixt her feeble armes her quickly keight .
  • #(lb) To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To grip or entangle.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To be held back or impeded.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.
  • #(lb) To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process. (jump)
  • #:
  • #(lb) To have something be held back or impeded.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
  • #:
  • #(lb) Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
  • #:
  • #
  • #*1906 , Arthur W. Stevens, Practical Rowing with Scull and Sweep , p.63:
  • #*:Stop gathering, in that gradual fashion, and catch the water sharply and decisively.
  • #
  • #:
  • # To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
  • #*2001 , John Lull, Sea Kayaking Safety & Rescue , p.203:
  • #*:If you are surfing a wave through the rocks, make sure you have a clear route before catching the wave.
  • #
  • #:
  • (lb) To intercept.
  • #(lb) To seize or intercept a object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
  • #:
  • #
  • #*1811 , (Jane Austen), (Sense and Sensibility) , :
  • #*:she internally resolved henceforward to catch every opportunity of eyeing the hair and of satisfying herself,.
  • #
  • #:
  • #
  • #:
  • (lb) To receive (by being in the way).
  • #(lb) To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
  • #:
  • #(lb) To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To be infected by (an illness).
  • #:
  • #(lb) To spread by infection or similar means.
  • #*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
  • #*:Does the sedition catch from man to man?
  • #*(Mary Martha Sherwood) (1775–1851)
  • #*:He accosted Mrs. Browne very civilly, told her his wife was very ill, and said he was sadly troubled to get a white woman to nurse her: "For," said he, "Mrs. Simpson has set it abroad that her fever is catching ."
  • #
  • #:
  • #*2003 , Jerry Dennis, The Living Great Lakes , p.63:
  • #*:the sails caught and filled, and the boat jumped to life beneath us.
  • #(lb) To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
  • #:
  • #(lb) To be hit by something. (jump)
  • #:
  • #(lb) To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
  • #*{{quote-book, year=1877, title= Annual Report of the Ohio State Board of Agriculture, page=135
  • , passage=The nets caught well, and Mr. Deeley reported it the best fishing ground he ever tried.}}
  • # To get pregnant.
  • #:
  • (lb) To take in with one's senses or intellect.
  • #(lb) To grasp mentally: perceive and understand. (jump)
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
  • #(lb) To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
  • #:
  • #(lb) To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
  • #:
  • (lb) To seize attention, interest.
  • #(lb) To charm or entrance.
  • #*2004 , Catherine Asaro, The Moon's Shadow , p.40:
  • #*:No, a far more natural beauty caught him.
  • #(lb) To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
  • #:
  • Synonyms

    * (jump) fang, snatch, grab * (jump) capture, take; snare, hook * (jump) take, get

    Antonyms

    * drop, release

    Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the verb "to catch") * catchable * catchall * catchbasin * catcher * catch-breath * catch cold * catch a cold * catch a crab * catch a tan * catch as catch can * catch fire * catch it * catch on * catch out * catch over * catch up * caught in the act