Scored

Part of speech: verb

Pronunciation: /skɔː(ɹ)d/

Definitions

1. Having lines or grooves cut or scratched into a surface ; having earned points or goals in a competitive activity ; having arranged musical parts or prepared a text for performance
2. Featuring intentional cuts or marks for design or function ; having succeeded in gaining points in sports or exams ; having created a written or musical arrangement
3. Displaying incisions made in a material; having obtained a quantitative result in contests or assessments ; having authored or adapted a musical composition or script

Etymology: The past tense "scored" comes from the verb "score", and the verb's oldest sense is simply to cut. Old English "scoru" meant a notch, and its Germanic ancestor meant an incision or a tear. Cutting a notch into a stick was how people kept a tally, and the number twenty took its name from that practice. Drovers counting animals through a tollgate made a mark on a tally for every twenty beasts that passed, so the notches became a unit of counting, and "a score" came to mean twenty. The verb followed the same path. Marking a line in wood, stone or leather gave "score" its sense of drawing lines, and from there it came to mean recording points in a game, since each point was once a notch. Its cousin "shear" comes from the same ancient root meaning "to cut".

Synonyms: marked, notched, tallied, rated, evaluated

Antonyms: failed, lost, missed, ignored, neglected