Score

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Score may mean:

[edit] Numbers and statistics

• Score (gaming), a number of points achieved in a sporting event or game
• a unit of twenty; e.g., "some words have scores ('twenties') of meanings."
• Score (statistics), the derivative, with respect to some parameter θ, of the logarithm of the likelihood function
• Raw score, an original datum that has not been transformed
• Standard score, a dimensionless quantity derived from the raw score

[edit] Figurative uses

• a slang term for sexual intercourse or related sexual activity (e.g., "did you score last night?").
• In drug users' jargon, to obtain drugs.
• to cut through part of the thickness of a flat object so that it may easily be broken along the scored line. E.g., medicinal tablets are often scored so they may be broken in half for smaller doses.

[edit] Organisations

• Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE), an organization of volunteers advising aspiring businesspeople.
• SCORE! Educational Centers
• SCORE International, an Offroad racing organization
• Acronym for the "Statistics, Computing, Operational Research and Economics" degree programme offered by University College London.

[edit] The Arts

• Sheet music for a musical composition, such as a song, opera, show or other piece of music. It may include only an arrangement for piano and voice, or the full orchestration or some other arrangement, and it includes the composition in a single time sequence, giving an overall picture of the composition
• Film score, a sound recording of the music in a film
• Score (album), the live CD/DVD by progressive metal band Dream Theater.
• Score (film), a 1972 pornographic film
• Score, a UK-based football comic, originally Score and Roar, published in 1970, merged with rival comic Scorcher in 1971
• A method used to join two pieces of pottery, each side is scored and then pressed together

[edit] Media

• SCORE (Spain), a free general sports magazine published in Madrid and distributed along the Costa del Sol
• Score (magazine), a pornographic magazine co-published in the US and UK
• SCORE (Czech), a computer gaming magazine since year 1994
• SCORE (television), a defunct joint television network with Financial News Network in the 1980s.
• Score Entertainment, makers of the Dragon Ball Z trading card game, subsidiary of Donruss/Playoff.
• Score, a sports trading card brand under the Donruss/Playoff family of brands. Currently only dealing in NFL Football liscensed products with recent releases being 2006 Score Football or 2006 Score Select Football.

[edit] Various

• Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite
• Scores (strip club) in New York City

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