Definitions for scorer

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

score^*skɔr, skoʊr(n.)(pl.)scores; score

(n.)the record of points or strokes made by the competitors in a game or contest.
Category: Games
the total points or strokes made by one side or competitor.
the performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number or other symbol.
Category: Psychology, Education
a notch, scratch, or incision.
a notch or mark for keeping an account or record.
a reckoning or account so kept; tally.
any account showing indebtedness.
an amount recorded as due.
a line drawn as a boundary, the starting point of a race, etc.
a group or set of 20.
Category: Math
scores, a great many.
a reason, ground, or cause:
to complain on the score of low pay.
Informal. the basic facts of a situation: a successful move, remark, etc.
What's the score on Saturday's picnic?
Category: Informal
a written or printed piece of music with the vocal and instrumental parts arranged on staves, one under the other. the music for a movie, play, or television show.
Category: Music and Dance
Slang. a sexual conquest. a purchase or acquisition of illicit drugs. a successful robbery. the victim of a robbery or swindle.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Status (usage)
(v.t.)to make, gain, or earn in a game, as points or hits.
Category: Games
to get a score of.
to have as a specified value in points:
Four aces score 100.
to evaluate the responses a person has made on (a test or examination).
Category: Psychology, Education
Music. to orchestrate. to compose the music for (a movie, play, television show, etc.).
Category: Music and Dance
to cut shallow ridges into (meat, fish, etc.), usu. in diamond patterns.
Category: Cooking
to make notches, cuts, marks, or lines in or on.
to keep a record of (points, items, etc.).
to write down as a debt.
to record as a debtor.
to achieve or win:
The play scored a great success.
Slang. to obtain (a drug) illicitly. to steal.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Status (usage)
to berate or censure.
to crease (paper or cardboard) in order to facilitate bending.
(v.i.)to make, gain, or earn points, hits, etc., in a game or contest.
Category: Games
to keep score, as of a game.
Category: Games
to achieve an advantage or success.
to make notches, cuts, lines, etc.
to run up a score or debt.
Slang. to succeed in finding a willing sexual partner. to purchase or obtain drugs illicitly.
Category: Common Vocabulary, Status (usage)

Idioms for score:

pay off or settle a score,to avenge a wrong; retaliate.
Category: Idiom

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Origin of score:

bef. 1100; (n.) ME; late OE scora, score (pl.; sing. *scoru) group of twenty (appar. orig. notch) < ON skor notch; (v.) ME: to incise, mark with lines, tally debts < ON skora to notch

scor′er(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

scorer(noun)
a player who makes a score in a game or contest
scorer(noun)
a logger who marks trees to be felled
scorekeeper, scorer(noun)
an official who records the score during the progress of a game

Wiktionary

scorer(Noun)
One who scores.
Shearer finished among the top ten goal scorers in 10 out of his 14 seasons in the Premier League and won the top scorer title three times.
scorer(Noun)
One who scores: a scorekeeper.
The team was making goals so fast the scorer could barely keep up.
scorer(Noun)
Either of a pair of people, one provided by each side, who record in a specially formatted book, every ball bowled, every run scored, and every wicket that falls