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If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.
Rodney Atkins

Meaning of "the score" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF THE SCORE

the score play
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WHAT DOES THE SCORE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of the score in the English dictionary

The definition of the score in the dictionary is the actual situation; the true facts.


WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE THE SCORE

the sack
the Saint Leger
the Salish
the same
the same old story
the sands are running out
the Santa Maria
the Scales
the scheduled territories
the Schools
the Scorpion
the Scots Greys
the Scottish
the screen
the scrub
the sea
the Second International
the secondary
the seelie
the self

WORDS THAT END LIKE THE SCORE

aggregate score
apgar score
core
eightscore
fourscore
full score
ninescore
outscore
over the score
overscore
prescore
raw score
rescore
score
scratch score
settle a score
short score
threescore
topscore
underscore
vocal score

Synonyms and antonyms of the score in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «THE SCORE»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «the score» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of the score

Translation of «the score» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF THE SCORE

Find out the translation of the score to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of the score from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «the score» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

比分
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

la puntuación
570 millions of speakers

English

the score
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्कोर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

النتيجة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

оценка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

a pontuação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

হিসাব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

le score
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Skornya
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

die Partitur
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

スコア
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

점수
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Skor
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

điểm số
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மதிப்பெண்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

स्कोअर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Skor
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

il punteggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wynik
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

оцінка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Scorul
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

η βαθμολογία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

die telling
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ställningen
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

poengsummen
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of the score

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SCORE»

The term «the score» is very widely used and occupies the 19.238 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «THE SCORE» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «the score» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «the score» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about the score

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10 QUOTES WITH «THE SCORE»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word the score.
1
Alejandro Amenabar
Sometimes a piece of music in the score isn't effective. When a score is too well finished with too many elements, sometimes it's too much.
2
Rodney Atkins
If I spent the rest of my life getting even with the people that had helped me out, I would never settle the score.
3
Gresham Barrett
The most insignificant score is the score at halftime.
4
Graeme Base
My only real hobby is playing music. I write a lot of music on guitar and keyboards and hope one day to make a record or maybe even write the score for a film.
5
Marco Beltrami
If it's a real bad score, then it can ruin a movie for me, or, at least, it will draw a lot of my attention to the score.
6
Elmer Bernstein
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score.
7
Ethan Coen
When the movie's done, you talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it.
8
Mark Cuban
If you think back to the first sporting event you went to, you don't remember the score, you don't remember a home run, you don't remember a dunk. You remember who you were with. Were you with your mom, your dad, your brother, on a date?
9
Danny Elfman
Most often the music does end up in the movie, and sometimes there's a point where I wish that it wasn't, just because I think the score would be more effective if there was less of it. But, again, that's not my call.
10
Mike Figgis
I want the score to have a really big voice.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THE SCORE»

Discover the use of the score in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to the score and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
The last lecture on leadership by the NFL's greatest coach: Bill Walsh Bill Walsh is a towering figure in the history of the NFL.
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh, 2009
2
The Score, the Orchestra, and the Conductor
This book details many topics that otherwise are unavailable to the aspiring and established conductor, including the use of the common denominator, the "The ZIG-ZAG method", a multiple, cross-indexed glossary of orchestral instruments in ...
Gustav Meier, 2009
3
Football hooligans: knowing the score
This book examines how groups of young male fans come to be defined and identified as football `hooligans’ and challenges the assumption that violence is wholly central to the match-day experience for these supporters.
Gary Armstrong, 2003
4
The Score: A Parker Novel
The University of Chicago Press has embarked on a project to return the early volumes of this series to print for a new generation of readers to discover—and become addicted to.
Richard Stark, 2010
5
Changing the Score : Arias, Prima Donnas, and the Authority ...
This book covers a wide variety of material that will be of interest to opera scholars and opera lovers alike, touching on the fluidity of the operatic work, on the reception of the singers, and on the shifting and hardening aesthetics of ...
Hilary Poriss, 2009
6
Settling the Score: Music and the Classical Hollywood Film
Beginning with the earliest experiments in musical accompaniment carried out in the Edison Laboratories, Kathryn Kalinak uses archival material to outline the history of American music and film.
Kathryn Kalinak, 1992
7
S.C.O.R.E. for Life
We seek the insights that will liberate us from anxiety and self-doubt. In this book, Jim Fannin shares a collection of ideas and daily exercises that transform everyday performers into true champions.
Jim Fannin, 2009
8
The Score: Interviews With Film Composers
"A unique collection of lively, in-depth, musically savvy conversations with contemporary film composers of every style, background, and position in Hollywood's hierarchy, The Score brings together a broad cross-section of current thoughts ...
Michael Schelle, 1999
9
Beyond the Score: Music as Performance
This book reconceives music as an activity through which meaning is generated in real time, as Cook rethinks familiar assumptions and develops new approaches.
Nicholas Cook, 2014
10
Settling the Score: Talkin' Chicago Sports
Calm, reasoned, and well-modulated tones are not the order of business in discussing Chicago sports, and when it comes to talking Chicago sports, Mike North is in a class by himself.
Mike North, 2009

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «THE SCORE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term the score is used in the context of the following news items.
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Next Spielberg film 1st in decades without score by Williams
FILE - In this July 21, 2014 file photo, composer John Williams poses at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences event "Behind the Score: The Art of the ... «Yahoo News UK, Mar 15»
2
Rogers scores with purchase of The Score
Score Media Inc., a television network which has found worldwide success with its popular but largely unprofitable mobile applications, is in final negotiations to ... «Globe and Mail, Aug 12»
3
SAT Scores Fall as Gap Widens; Asians Gain
High-school students' performance last year on the SAT college-entrance exam fell slightly, and the score gap generally widened between lower-performing ... «Wall Street Journal, Aug 09»

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