Nick vs Score - What's the difference?
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A small cut in a surface.
# A particular point or place considered as marked by a nick; the exact point or critical moment.
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# (printing, dated) A notch cut crosswise in the shank of a type, to assist a compositor in placing it properly in the stick, and in distribution.
Meanings connoting something small.
# (cricket) A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch.
# (real tennis) The point where the wall of the court meets the floor.
# (genetics) One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation.
(archaic) A nixie, or water-sprite.
* 1879 , Viktor Rydberg, The Magic of the Middle Ages (p.201)
*:imps, giants, trolls, forest-spirits, elves and hobgoblins in and on the earth; nicks , river-sprites in the water, fiends in the air, and salamanders in the fire.
(UK, slang) In the expressions in bad nick'' and ''in good nick : condition.
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(British, slang) A police station or prison.
To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way.
# To make a cross cut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher).
# To mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in.
#* Prior
#* Shakespeare
To suit or fit into, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.
* Camden
# To hit at, or in, the nick; to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time.
#* L'Estrange
# To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.
#* {{quote-book, year=1773
, author=Oliver Goldsmith
, title=She Stoops to Conquer
, text=My old luck: I never nicked seven that I did not throw ames ace three times following.}}
# (cricket) to hit the ball with the edge of the bat and produce a fine deflection
(obsolete) To nickname; to style.
* Ford
(slang) To steal.
(transitive, British, slang) To arrest.
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.
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=September 29
, author=Jon Smith
, title=Tottenham 3 - 1 Shamrock Rovers
, work=BBC Sport
To earn (points) in a 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
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 (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 cricket terms the difference between nick and score
is that nick is a small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch while score is the number of runs scored by a batsman, or by a side, in either an innings or a match.In transitive terms the difference between nick and score
is that nick is to mar; to deface; to make ragged, as by cutting nicks or notches in while score is to provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.In transitive slang terms the difference between nick and score
is that nick is to steal while score is to acquire or gain.As a proper noun Nick
is a diminutive of the male given name Nicholas.As an interjection score is
acknowledgement of success.nick
English
(wikipedia nick)Noun
(en noun)- in the nick of time
- Truely he flies when he is even upon the nicke , and naturally hasteneth to escape it, as from a step whereon he cannot stay or containe himselfe, and feareth to sinke into it.
- to cut it off in the very nick
- a user's reserved nick on an IRC network
- The car I bought was cheap and in good nick .
- He was arrested and taken down to Sun Hill nick [police station] to be charged.
- He's just been released from Shadwell nick [prison] after doing ten years for attempted murder.
Derived terms
* in the nick of timeVerb
(en verb)- I nicked myself while I was shaving.
- And thence proceed to nicking sashes.
- The itch of his affection should not then / Have nicked his captainship.
- Words nicking and resembling one another are applicable to different significations.
- The just season of doing things must be nicked , and all accidents improved.
- For Warbeck, as you nick him, came to me.
- Someone's nicked my bike!
- The police nicked him climbing over the fence of the house he'd broken into.
score
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!
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- 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."