In a sport or game, if a player scores a goal or a point, they gain a goal or point.

If you score a particular number or amount, for example as a mark in a test, you achieve that number or amount.

Someone's score in a game or test is a number, for example, a number of points or runs, which shows what they have achieved or what level they have reached.

The score in a game is the result of it or the current situation, as indicated by the number of goals, runs, or points obtained by the two teams or players.

If you score a success, a victory, or a hit, you are successful in what you are doing.

The score of a film, play, or similar production is the music which is written or used for it.

The score of a piece of music is the written version of it.

If you score a piece of music, you write it or arrange it for specific instruments or voices.

If you refer to scores of things or people, you are emphasizing that there are very many of them.

A score is twenty or approximately twenty.

If you score a surface with something sharp, you cut a line or number of lines in it.

If someone scores drugs, they buy them illegally.

If things happen or exist by the score, they happen or exist in large numbers.

If you keep score of the number of things that are happening in a certain situation, you count them and record them.

If you know the score, you know what the real facts of a situation are and how they affect you, even though you may not like them.

You can use on that score or on this score to refer to something that has just been mentioned, especially an area of difficulty or concern.

If you score a point over someone, or score points off them, you gain an advantage over them, usually by saying something clever or making a better argument.

If you settle a score or settle an old score with someone, you take revenge on them for something they have done in the past.