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scoring

adjectivenounverbattested in dialogue

Of something or someone that scores.

adjective

  1. 1

    Of something or someone that scores.

    The highest scoring team will win the match.

noun

  1. 1

    The process of keeping score in a sport or contest.

    The scoring of a tennis match is overseen by a single referee.

  2. 2

    The process of winning points in a sport or contest.

    Scoring a basket in basketball is worth two or three points.

  3. 3

    The action of scratching paper or other material to make it easier to fold.

  4. 4

    A deep groove made by glacial action or similar.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of scorepresent participle and gerund of score

Forms

plural
scorings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).