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Sports vs Scoreline - What's the difference?

sports | scoreline |

As nouns the difference between sports and scoreline

is that sports is while scoreline is a line in a newspaper or other publication giving the score in a sports match.

As a verb sports

is (sport).

sports

English

(wikipedia sports)

Noun

(head)

    • Derived terms

    (sport plural) * air sports * disabled sports * parasports * sportscaster * water sports * watersports * winter sports

    Verb

    (head)
  • (sport)
  • (Reductive) To participate in sports; typically used by a person with little interest in the subject to derisively elide details of the activity in question. ("There's a lot of sportsing happening in Brazil this summer", said of the 2014 FIFA World Cup).

    • Anagrams

    * ----

    scoreline

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A line in a newspaper or other publication giving the score in a sports match
  • (sports) The score at the end of, of during, a match or game.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=November 11 , author=Rory Houston , title=Estonia 0-4 Republic of Ireland , work=RTE Sport citation , page= , passage=A stunning performance from the Republic of Ireland all but sealed progress to Euro 2012 as they crushed nine-man Estonia 4-0 in the first leg of the qualifying play-off tie in A Le Coq Arena in Tallinn. The scoreline did not flatter Ireland who's produced a composed, classy and determined showing that will go down as the highlight of the Giovanni Trapattioni era so far.}}

    References

    * OED 2nd edition 1989