score

adj : denoting a quantity consisting of 20 items or units [syn: {twenty},

{20}, {xx}]

n 1: a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a

student's performance); "she made good marks in

algebra"; "grade A milk"; "what was your score on your

homework?" [syn: {mark}, {grade}]

2: a written form of a musical composition; parts for different

instruments appear on separate staves on large pages; "he

studied the score of the sonata" [syn: {musical score}]

3: a number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an

individual in a game or contest; "the score was 7 to 0"

4: a set of twenty members; "four score and seven years ago"

5: grounds; "don't do it on my account"; "the paper was

rejected on acount of its length"; "he tried to blame the

victim but his success on that score was doubtful" [syn: {account}]

6: the facts about an actual situation; "he didn't know the

score"

7: an amount due (as at a restaurant or bar); "add it to my

score and I'll settle later"

8: a notch that is made to keep a tally

9: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding

a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: {grudge}, {grievance}]

10: the act of scoring in a game or sport; "the winning score

came with less than a minute left to play"

11: a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse; "calling his

seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of

male slang" [syn: {sexual conquest}]

v 1: gain points; "The home team scored many times" [syn: {hit},

{tally}, {rack up}]

2: make small marks into the surface of; "score the clay before

firing it" [syn: {nock}, {mark}]

3: make underscoring marks [syn: {mark}]

4: write a musical score for

5: succeed in seducing; young men's slang; "Harry finally

seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?" "Harry made

Sally" [syn: {seduce}, {make}]

6: get a certain score; "She scored high on the SAT"; "He

scored a 200"

core

1. {Main memory} or {RAM}. This term dates from the

days of {ferrite core memory}; now archaic most places outside

{IBM}, but also still used in the {Unix} community and by

old-time {hackers} or those who would sound like them.

Some derived idioms are quite current; "in core", for example,

means "in memory" ({paged in}, as opposed to "on disk", {paged

out}), and both {core dump} and the "core image" or "core

file" produced by one are terms in favour. Some varieties of

Commonwealth hackish prefer {store}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-03-03)

2. An {integrated circuit} design, usually for a

{microprocessor}, which includes only the {CPU} and which is

intended to form part of a complete circuit design which

incorporates other circuits on the same chip such as {cache},

{memory management unit}, I/O ports and timers.

The {ARM6}, {ARM7} and {ARM8} are examples.

3. A varient on {kernel} as used to describe

features built into a language as opposed to those provided by

{libraries}.

(1995-03-03)