What is score?

  • (verb): Write a musical score for.
    See also — Additional definitions below

Some articles on score:

Jerry Goldsmith - Film and Television Scoring - 1980s
... The score for Poltergeist garnered him a nomination for an Academy Award, though he lost again to fellow composer John Williams for E.T ... later returned in 1986 to compose the more synthetic score to Poltergeist II, the first of its two sequels. 1982), the action classic First Blood (1982), and his Oscar and Golden Globe nominated score to the political drama Under Fire (1983) in which he used the ethnic sounds of a South American pan flute, synthetic ...
United States At The 2004 Summer Olympics - Volleyball - Beach
3) Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final Standing Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Opposition Score Dain Blanton ...
United States At The 2004 Summer Olympics - Equestrian - Dressage
... Athlete Horse Event Qualifying round 1 Qualifying round 2 Freestyle final Total Score Rank Score Rank Score Rank Score Rank Robert Dover Kennedy Individual 71.625 9 Q 74.04 6 Q 78.475 7 74.713 6 ...
Ghostbusters - Music - Score
... Ghostbusters Original Motion Picture Score Film score by Elmer Bernstein Released 2006 Genre Classical, electronic Length 6802 Label Varèse Sarabande The film score was composed by ... The score was commercially released in 2006 as Ghostbusters Original Motion Picture Score by Varèse Sarabande ... Original Motion Picture Score No ...
Heavy Metal (film) - Score
... Unusual for the time, an LP recording of Elmer Bernstein's score was released alongside the soundtrack in 1981, and it featured the composer's first use of the ondes martenot, an instrument which became a trademark of ... On March 13, 2008, Film Score Monthly released an official, expanded CD release of Bernstein's score, which he conducted ... The score was performed by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with the London Voices and Jeanne Loriod on the ondes Martenot ...

More definitions of "score":

  • (noun): The act of scoring in a game or sport.
    Example: "The winning score came with less than a minute left to play"
  • (noun): A set of twenty members.
    Example: "A score were sent out but only one returned"
  • (verb): Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation.
    Example: "Score the SAT essays"
    Synonyms: grade, mark
  • (verb): Make underscoring marks.
    Synonyms: mark
  • (noun): The facts about an actual situation.
    Example: "He didn't know the score"
  • (verb): Induce to have sex.
    Example: "Did you score last night?"
    Synonyms: seduce, make
  • (verb): Make small marks into the surface of.
    Example: "Score the clay before firing it"
    Synonyms: nock, mark
  • (noun): Grounds.
    Example: "He tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful"
    Synonyms: account
  • (noun): A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation.
    Example: "Settling a score"
    Synonyms: grudge, grievance
  • (noun): A written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages.
    Example: "He studied the score of the sonata"
    Synonyms: musical score
  • (noun): A seduction culminating in sexual intercourse.
    Example: "Calling his seduction of the girl a 'score' was a typical example of male slang"
    Synonyms: sexual conquest
  • (noun): An amount due (as at a restaurant or bar).
    Example: "Add it to my score and I'll settle later"
  • (verb): Get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance.
    Example: "She scored high on the SAT"; "He scored a 200"
  • (noun): A slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally).
    Synonyms: scotch
  • (noun): A number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest.
    Example: "The score was 7 to 0"
  • (noun): A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance).
    Example: "What was your score on your homework?"
    Synonyms: mark, grade

Famous quotes containing the word score:

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    Tower up like silver pencils, score on score.
    Sir John Betjeman (1906–1984)

    Women who are either indisputably beautiful, or indisputably ugly, are best flattered upon the score of their understandings; but those who are in a state of mediocrity are best flattered upon their beauty, or at least their graces: for every woman who is not absolutely ugly, thinks herself handsome.
    Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)

    Whereas, before, our forefathers had no other books but the score and the tally, thou hast caused printing to be used, and, contrary to the King, his crown, and dignity, thou hast built a paper-mill.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)