Scorings

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. A series of points awarded in a competitive event or game based on performance or achievement
2. A collection of results indicating how well a participant has performed across various attempts or trials
3. An aggregation of numerical values assigned to evaluate success in a contest or challenge based on executed tasks

Etymology: "Scorings" is simply the plural of "scoring," and the plural form is the one that tends to show up when people talk about the totals a game produces. The noun "scoring" has a surprisingly physical beginning: it once referred to a groove, notch or cut made in something. A score in this older sense was a mark cut into a surface, and the same root gave English "shear" and "scar," both of which involve cutting or wounding. The shift from cut to contest runs through tallies. People keeping count often notched a stick or scratched lines into a surface to record a quantity, and those marks were scores. Once a running count was kept this way, "score" came to mean the count itself, and then the points a player or team had accumulated. The plural "scorings" follows the same path, giving the totals of a game as a set of marked-up results.

Synonyms: marks, scores, evaluations