Score vs Shoot - What's the difference?
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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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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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(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.
To launch a projectile.
# (label) To fire (a weapon that releases a projectile).
# (label) To fire (a projectile).
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# (label) To fire a projectile at (a person or target).
# (label) To cause a weapon to discharge a projectile.
# (label) To ejaculate.
# To begin to speak.
# (label) To discharge a missile; said of a weapon.
# To dismiss or do away with.
# To photograph.
To move or act quickly or suddenly.
# (label) To move very quickly and suddenly.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
#* 1884 : (Mark Twain), (The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn), Chapter VII
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# To go over or pass quickly through.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# (label) To tip (something, especially coal) down a chute.
# (label) To penetrate, like a missile; to dart with a piercing sensation.
#* (Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)
# To feel a quick, darting pain; to throb in pain.
#* (George Herbert) (1593-1633)
# (label) To change form suddenly; especially, to solidify.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
# To send out or forth, especially with a rapid or sudden motion; to cast with the hand; to hurl; to discharge; to emit.
#* (Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)
#* (1800-1859)
# To send to someone.
(label) To act or achieve.
# (label) To lunge.
# (label) To deviate from kayfabe, either intentionally or accidentally; to actually connect with unchoreographed fighting blows and maneuvers, or speak one's mind (instead of an agreed script).
# To make the stated score.
(label) To measure the distance and direction to (a point).
To inject a drug (such as heroin) intravenously.
To develop, move forward.
# To germinate; to bud; to sprout.
#* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# To grow; to advance.
#* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
#* (1700-1748)
# (label) To move ahead by force of momentum, as a sailing vessel when the helm is put hard alee.
# To push or thrust forward; to project; to protrude; often with out .
#* Bible, (Psalms) xxii. 7
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
To protrude; to jut; to project; to extend.
* (Charles Dickens) (1812-1870)
(label) To plane straight; to fit by planing.
* (Joseph Moxon) (1627-1691)
To variegate as if by sprinkling or intermingling; to color in spots or patches.(w)
* (1809-1892)
The emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.
* Evelyn
A photography session.
A hunt or shooting competition.
(professional wrestling, slang) An event that is unscripted or legitimate.
The act of shooting; the discharge of a missile; a shot.
* Francis Bacon
* Drayton
A rush of water; a rapid.
(mining) A vein of ore running in the same general direction as the lode.
(weaving) A weft thread shot through the shed by the shuttle; a pick.
A shoat; a young pig.
An inclined plane, either artificial or natural, down which timber, coal, etc., are caused to slide; a chute.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between score and shoot
is that score is while shoot is to launch a projectile.As a noun shoot is
the emerging stem and embryonic leaves of a new plant.As an interjection shoot is
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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)
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- 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.
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- 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."
Derived terms
* scorable * score a brace * score off, score-off * unscoredSee also
* gradeReferences
* Tom Dalzell, The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English , 2008, page 846Anagrams
* * ----shoot
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) shoten, from (etyl) .Verb
- If you please / To shoot an arrow that self way.
- There shot a streaming lamp along the sky.
- It didn't take me long to get there. I shot past the head at a ripping rate, the current was so swift, and then I got into the dead water and landed on the side towards the Illinois shore.
- Sheshoots the Stygian sound.
- Thy words shoot through my heart.
- These preachers make / His head to shoot and ache.
- If the menstruum be overcharged, metals will shoot into crystals.
- an honest weaver as ever shot shuttle
- a pit into which the dead carts had nightly shot corpses by scores
- Onions, as they hang, will shoot forth.
- But the wild olive shoots , and shades the ungrateful plain.
- Well shot in years he seemed.
- Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, / To teach the young idea how to shoot .
- They shoot out the lip, they shake the head.
- Beware the secret snake that shoots a sting.
- There shot up against the dark sky, tall, gaunt, straggling houses.
- two pieces of wood that are shot , that is, planed or else pared with a paring chisel
- The tangled water courses slept, / Shot over with purple, and green, and yellow.
Quotations
* (English Citations of "shoot")Derived terms
* like shooting fish in a barrel * re-shoot * shoot down * shooter * shoot from the hip * shoot from the lip * shoot one's bolt * shoot oneself in the foot * shoot one's mouth off * shoot one's wad * shoot the boots * shoot the bull * shoot the messenger * shoot upNoun
(en noun)- Superfluous branches and shoots of this second spring.
- The Turkish bow giveth a very forcible shoot .
- One underneath his horse to get a shoot doth stalk.
- (Knight)
Derived terms
* (hunt or shooting competition) turkey shootEtymology 2
minced oath for (shit)Interjection
(en interjection)- Didn't you have a concert tonight?
- Shoot! I forgot! I have to go and get ready...