Word Type
Score can be a verb or a noun.
score used as a verb:
- To earn points in a game.
"Pelé scores again!" - To scratch (paper or cardboard) with a sharp implement to make it easier to fold.
- To make fine, shallow lines with a sharp implement as cutting indications.
"The baker scored the cake so the servers would know where to slice it." - To have sexual intercourse.
- To acquire or gain.
"Did you score tickets for the concert?" - To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
score used as a noun:
- The total number of points earned by a participant in a game.
"The player with the highest score is the winner." - The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
"The score is 8-1 although it's not even half-time!" - Twenty, 20 (number).
"Some words have scores of meanings." - One or more parts of a musical composition in a format indicating how the composition is to be played.
- A presentation of how many runs a side has scored, and how many wickets have been lost.
"England had a score of 107 for 5 at lunch." - The number of runs scored by a batsman, or by a side, in either an innings or a match.
- subject
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
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What type of word is score?
- Verb usage: Pelé scores again!
- Verb usage: It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game.
- Verb usage: The baker scored the cake so the servers would know where to slice it.
- Verb usage: Did you score tickets for the concert?
- Noun usage: The player with the highest score is the winner.
- Noun usage: The score is 8-1 although it's not even half-time!
- Noun usage: Pronunciation: "8-1" is pronounced "eight to one" or "eight one."
- Noun usage: Some words have scores of meanings.
- Noun usage: England had a score of 107 for 5 at lunch.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of score are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of score, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
