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Definition: Scoring |
ScoringNoun1. Evaluation of performance by assigning a grade or score; "what he disliked about teaching was all the grading he had to do". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scoring" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1598. (references) |
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Industry | Pressing of a straight channel into the surface of e. g. paper or board so as to make folding of the paper or board possible or easier. Source: European Union. (references) |
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See also : standard score
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Scoring."
Synonyms: ScoringSynonyms: grading (n), marking (n). (additional references) |
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Screenplays | As the cars roar into Pennsylvania, the cradle of liberty, it seems apparent that our citizens are staying off the streets, which may make scoring particularly difficult, even with this year's rule changes. (Death Race 2000; writing credit: Ib Melchior; Robert Thom) | |
Lyrics | And like Jordan yo I'm scoring ("Boom! Shake The Room"; performing artist: Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Hans Zimmer: Scoring Gladiator (2000) Scoring (1995) The Come On: Skip's Video Guide to Scoring Chicks (1991) Scoring! (1984) | |
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 | The breast of a black woman is exposed and highlighted. Some scoring is visible on the breast below the nipple marking the tumor area. Surgeons are visible looking over the patient examining the patient. They will mark and place tubes for later implantation of radioactive iridium seeds. Wider view is also available.Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer). |  | Bucky Harris scoring his home run in the 4th inning in the 7th game of the World Series.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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Children | Bhutan | Exile groups claim that Nepalese students scoring highly on national exams are not always given the same advantages as other students (such as the chance to study abroad at government expense), particularly if they are related to prominent dissidents or refugees. (references) |
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| "Scoring" is generally used as a lexical verb (-ing form) -- approximately 82.54% of the time. "Scoring" is used about 858 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (-ing form) | 82.54% | 708 | 9,458 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 8.38% | 72 | 39,377 |
| Noun (singular) | 7.57% | 65 | 41,645 |
| Noun (proper) | 1.51% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 858 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scoring": scoring out ♦ scoring system. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "scoring": free-scoring, goal-scoring, highest-scoring, high-scoring, low-scoring, point-scoring, points-scoring, top-scoring, try-scoring. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
credit scoring | 263 |
iq scoring | 188 |
baseball scoring | 157 |
tennis scoring | 96 |
iq test scoring | 80 |
golf scoring | 79 |
scoring | 48 |
scoring concrete | 34 |
bowling scoring | 26 |
softball scoring | 24 |
sat scoring | 23 |
film scoring | 20 |
callaway scoring | 18 |
lsat scoring | 18 |
3d calcium calcium scoring | 17 |
cardiac scoring | 15 |
mcat scoring | 15 |
act scoring | 15 |
i.q scoring | 15 |
asvab scoring | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scoring"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | النقاط, أهداف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 计分 (Scored). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rilning (grooving), kåring (judging, licensing, pointing, score judging), bedømmelse (judging, pointing, score judging, verdict). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ritsen (deduct, grooving, score, scratch, take away), puntenbeoordeling (pointing, score judging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pisteytys (pointing, score judging), nuuttaus (grooving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | striage, rainage, points, pointage (score, score judging, scrutiny), incision (score), buts. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Spielergebnis (score). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | βαθμολόγηση (calibration, division, grading, graduation, marking, pointing, score judging), πίκμανση (grooving). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | קי"". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rovás (nick, notch, recess, score, tally), pontszerzés, karcolás (abrasion, chafing, nick, score, scrape, scratch), hangszerelés (harmonization, instrumentation, orchestration). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | punteggio (pointing, score, score judging). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 点 (addition of points). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | かて" (addition of points). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | " . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | oringscay ranhurar (grooving), ranhuragem (grooving), ranhurado (grooving), pontuação (pit, pitting, pointing, punctuation, score judging). (various references) orchestraţie. (various references) задирание;озвучание. (various references) urezivanje (stamping), unošenje u zapisnik, udešavanje muzičnog komada za orkestar, pucanje (firing, shooting, shot). (various references) signado (grooving), tanteo (calculation, score, test, trial, try), reprimenda (blame, dressing down, rebuke, reference, reprimand, reproof, rocket), rayado (bruised, carriageway marking, delineator, groove, lined, marking, pinstripe, rifling, road marking, ruling, scratch, scribing, scuff mark, streaked, streaky, stripe, striped), ranurado (brush finish, gouging, grooving, notched, routing, scalloped, scribing), puntuación (Mark, pointing, punctuation, score, score judging), orquestación (orchestration), incisión (excision, incising, incision, scribing), hendido (cleft, cloven, crenate, crenated, delamination, grooving, Riven, split), estriación. (various references) exteriörbedömning (pointing, score judging). (various references) рахунок (account, bill, chalk, chit, count, expense, reckoning, score, tick), задирки. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "scoring": outscoring, prescoring, rescoring, underscoring. (additional references) | |
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"Scoring" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Sbordini, scoding, Scoging, sconing, scoping, Scoraig, scori, scoringe, scrooving, scroung, scrung, scrying, scuring, scurring, soring, sporing. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scoring" (pronounced skô"ring) |
| 6 | s k ô" r i ng | underscoring. |
| 4 | -ô" r i ng | adoring, boring, deploring, exploring, flooring, Goring, ignoring, imploring, outpouring, poring, pouring, restoring, roaring, shoring, snoring, soaring, storing, warring. |
| 3 | -r i ng | acquiring, adhering, admiring, airing, alluring, appearing, aspiring, assuring, baring, barring, bearing, bioengineering, blaring, caring, chairing, charring, cheering, childbearing, clearing, comparing, conspiring, curing, daring, declaring, despairing, disappearing, domineering, during, earring, electioneering, endearing, enduring, engineering, ensuring, expiring, fearing, firing, flaring, gearing, glaring, haring, hearing, herring, hiring, impairing, inspiring, insuring, interfering, jarring, jeering, luring, marring, maturing, ministering, mooring, nearing, obscuring, overbearing, overhearing, overpowering, pairing, paring, peering, perspiring, pioneering, premiering, preparing, procuring, profiteering, quiring, racketeering, rearing, reassuring, reengineering, rehearing, rehiring, repairing, retiring, scaring, scarring, searing, securing, sharing, shearing, smearing, snaring, sneering, sparing, sparring, Spearing, squaring, staring, starring, steering, stevedoring, swearing, tarring, tearing, tiring, touring, uncaring, uninspiring, unsparing, veering, volunteering, Waring, wearing, wiring. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-g-i-n-o-r-s" | |
-1 letter: coigns, corgis, coring, cosign, girons, grison, groins, incogs, orcins, rosing, signor, soring. | |
-2 letters: cions, coign, coins, coirs, corgi, corns, girns, giron, giros, grins, groin, icons, incog, irons, noirs, noris, orcin, orgic, ornis, rings, rosin, scion, scorn, sonic. | |
-3 letters: cigs, cion, cogs, coin, coir, coni, cons, corn, cors, cris, gins, girn, giro, grin, icon, inro, ions, iron, nogs, noir, nori, orcs, rigs, ring, rins, rocs, sign, sing, snog, song, sori, sorn. | |
-4 letters: cig, cis, cog, con, cor, cos, gin, gor, gos, ins, ion, nog, nor, nos, ons, orc, ors, rig, rin, roc, sic, sin, sir, son, sri. | |
-5 letters: go, in, is, no, on, or, os, si, so. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-g-i-n-o-r-s" | |
+1 letter: cordings, coreigns, cosigner, coursing, crossing, organics, scorning, scouring, sourcing. | |
+2 letters: carousing, censoring, chorusing, chromings, closuring, cognizers, colorings, congeries, consignor, corseting, coshering, cosigners, coursings, coverings, crossings, escorting, escrowing, frescoing, necrosing, obscuring, recognise, rescoring, rocklings, scorching, scourging, scourings, scrolling, scrooping, scrouging, sectoring, succoring. | |
+3 letters: bescouring, cairngorms, chorussing, coarsening, coinsuring, comprising, concierges, configures, conserving, consignors, consorting, conspiring, constringe, construing, conversing, corbelings, costarring, creolising, creosoting, crimsoning, cryogenics, cryogenies, discording, ergonomics, estrogenic, exorcising, ignorances, incorpsing, incrossing, longicorns, organicism, organicist, organismic, outcursing, outscoring, prescoring, processing, prognostic, prosecting, rechoosing, reckonings, recognised, recognises, recognizes, recoinages, recordings, recrossing, refocusing, rejoicings, restocking, saprogenic, scissoring, sclerosing, scorifying, scowdering, scrooching, scroungier, scrounging, sporogenic, sporogonic, succouring, uncrossing, ungracious. | |
+4 letters: ancestoring, bescorching, carcinogens, cartoonings, chirurgeons, cinemagoers, cloistering, compressing, congressing, congruities, conscribing, considering, consigliere, consiglieri, constringed, constringes, contrasting, cornhusking, coruscating, coscripting, cosignatory, countersign, courtesying, discoloring, discoursing, discovering, discrowning, disfrocking, egocentrics, egocentrism, enscrolling, ensorceling, fluorescing, forecasting, foreclosing, gastronomic, gongoristic, grouchiness, incongruous, inscrolling, jargonistic, lowercasing, microfungus, miscoloring, monogastric, nasogastric, necrologies, necrologist, necropsying, nonorgasmic, nonsurgical, obstructing, offscouring, organicisms, organicists, ostracising, ostracizing, outcrossing, outscorning, outsourcing, overcasting, oversaucing, prefocusing, proceedings, prognostics, proscribing, prosecuting, prospecting, recognising, recognizers, recomposing, refocussing, reschooling, scorchingly, scouthering, scrootching, scroungiest, shortcoming, trichogynes. | |
+5 letters: backcrossing, bedcoverings, broadcasting, caparisoning, categorising, centimorgans, chemisorbing, chronologies, chronologist, churchgoings, compromising, congruencies, conscripting, consecrating, constraining, constricting, constringent, constringing, constructing, copresenting, coprocessing, corkscrewing, cornhuskings, corrugations, cosponsoring, countersigns, countersuing, craniologies, crescendoing, croquignoles, crossbanding, crossbarring, crosscutting, crossruffing, disaccording, discouraging, efflorescing, egocentrisms, eigenvectors, encrimsoning, ensorcelling, gastrocnemii, glucuronides, graciousness, greenockites, micromanages, misreckoning, misrecording, mockingbirds, necrologists, nonstrategic, offscourings, organicities, outcroppings, outsourcings, overcastings, overfocusing, overstocking, precensoring, prefocussing, recognitions, recompensing, recondensing, reconfigures, reprocessing, ropedancings, roughcasting, scenographic, schnorkeling, serotonergic, shortcomings, shortcutting, skyrocketing, stenographic, stockbroking, stringcourse, sugarcoating, supercoiling, supercooling, superorganic, testcrossing, underscoring, ungraciously, woodcarvings. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 6F 72 69 6E 67 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. --- .-. .. -. --. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101111 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c o r i n g |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 006F 0072 0069 006E 0067 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53698184758073 |
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