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I won't even talk about Technorati as their score is a joke and way off (too low).

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  1. noun A notch or incision, especially one that is made to keep a tally.
  2. noun Sports & Games A usually numerical record of a competitive event: keeping score.
  3. noun Sports & Games The total number of points made by each competitor or side in a contest, either final or at a given stage: The score stood tied in the bottom of the ninth inning.
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  • I won't even talk about Technorati as their score is a joke and way off (too low). —  MountainRunner
  • A possible reason for the image crisis on this score is the waving of wads of currency notes, claimed to be bribe money for influencing MPs, during the July 22 trust vote in the Lok Sabha, TII chairman Admiral R H Tahiliani (retd) told reporters after releasing the Corruption Perception Index 2008. —  PunjabNewsline News
  • "During the game, it's hard to remember who has the lead and what the score is after that many goals," he said. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Even when the score is as lopsided as the last time the two teams met on the same field. —  Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news
  • Your score is a reflection of your actions: choose the behavior, choose the consequence. —  Lead Stories from AOL
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score:   scores ·  scored ·  scoring
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English, from Old English scoru, twenty, from Old Norse skor; see sker-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English scorc, skore, schore, a notch, score, from Anglo-Saxon scor, a score, twenty (denoted by a long cut on a stick) (= Icelandic skora = Swedish skåra = Danish skaar, a score, notch, incision), from sceran (past participle scoren), cut, shear: see shear, and cf. shore. For a specific sense, cf. English tally and G. kerb-holz, a tally-score, reckoning.
  2. from Middle English scoren, skoren, notch, count, = Icelandic skora = Danish skaare, score; from the noun.
 

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