All score synonyms
score
S s noun score
- instrumentation β the arranging of music for instruments, especially for an orchestra.
- info β information.
- concerto β A concerto is a piece of music written for one or more solo instruments and an orchestra.
- bottom dollar β The last of one's money; all of one's money.
- dent β If you dent the surface of something, you make a hollow area in it by hitting or pressing it.
- floater β a person or thing that floats.
- final cause β a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- winnings β Plural form of winning.
- lineation β an act or instance of marking with or tracing by lines.
- innings β Baseball. a division of a game during which each team has an opportunity to score until three outs have been made against it.
- host β the bread or wafer consecrated in the celebration of the Eucharist.
- input β ALPHA
- notch β an angular or V -shaped cut, indentation, or slit in an object, surface, or edge.
- dead horse β something that has ceased to be useful or relevant.
- hole in one β ace (def 8a).
- ink β a fluid or viscous substance used for writing or printing.
- embrasure β (architecture, military) Any of the indentations between the merlons of a battlement.
- main idea β the most important or central thought of a paragraph or larger section of text, which tells the reader what the text is about: Find the main idea in each paragraph.
verb score
- make it big β If you make it big, you become successful or famous.
- make the most of β in the greatest quantity, amount, measure, degree, or number: to win the most votes.
- fire up β start ignition of
- delete β If you delete something that has been written down or stored in a computer, you cross it out or remove it.
- lacerate β to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
- facetted β one of the small, polished plane surfaces of a cut gem.
- line up β a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- hack it β to cut, notch, slice, chop, or sever (something) with or as with heavy, irregular blows (often followed by up or down): to hack meat; to hack down trees.
- crenelated β In a castle, a crenelated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
- get there β to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- key up β a small metal instrument specially cut to fit into a lock and move its bolt.
- engrave β Cut or carve (a text or design) on the surface of a hard object.
- latch onto β a device for holding a door, gate, or the like, closed, consisting basically of a bar falling or sliding into a catch, groove, hole, etc.
- copping β the winding of yarn into a cap from a cone, bobbin, etc.
- authored β a person who writes a novel, poem, essay, etc.; the composer of a literary work, as distinguished from a compiler, translator, editor, or copyist.
- bang out β If a company bangs out a poor quality product, they produce large quantities of it in order to make money.
- achieve β If you achieve a particular aim or effect, you succeed in doing it or causing it to happen, usually after a lot of effort.
- gobble up β to swallow or eat hastily or hungrily in large pieces; gulp.
- mousetrap β a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- chining β the backbone or spine, especially of an animal.
- make a killing β If you make a killing, you make a large profit very quickly and easily.
- make use of β to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- go β to move or proceed, especially to or from something: They're going by bus.
- do the trick β a crafty or underhanded device, maneuver, stratagem, or the like, intended to deceive or cheat; artifice; ruse; wile.
- carve β If you carve an object, you make it by cutting it out of a substance such as wood or stone. If you carve something such as wood or stone into an object, you make the object by cutting it out.
- inked β (slang) Having a tattoo or tattoos.
- deal with β When you deal with something or someone that needs attention, you give your attention to them, and often solve a problem or make a decision concerning them.
- crenellated β In a castle, a crenellated wall has gaps in the top or openings through which to fire at attackers.
- ghosting β the soul of a dead person, a disembodied spirit imagined, usually as a vague, shadowy or evanescent form, as wandering among or haunting living persons.
- initialing β of, relating to, or occurring at the beginning; first: the initial step in a process.
- accessed β the ability, right, or permission to approach, enter, speak with, or use; admittance: They have access to the files.