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SCORES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large number or amount
Example:
she amassed stacks of newspapers
Synonyms:
dozens; gobs; heaps; lashings; loads; lots; oodles; piles; rafts; scads; scores; slews; stacks; tons; wads
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("scores" is a kind of...):
large indefinite amount; large indefinite quantity (an indefinite quantity that is above the average in size or magnitude)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb score
Context examples:
"Then that be just where the lie comes in. Why, there be scores of these lay-beds that be toom as old Dun's 'bacca-box on Friday night."
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“I have had one or two little scores of my own to settle with Mr. John Clay,” said Holmes.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The numeric result derived from a BLAST sequence alignment assessment, calculated from the sum of substitution and gap scores.
(BLAST Raw Score, NCI Thesaurus)
These charts allowed the team to derive and assign standardized scores for these skills to all the participants, regardless of age or gender.
(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)
By comparing this score to the distribution of scores in globular and coiled-coil proteins, the program then calculates the probability that the sequence will adopt a coiled-coil conformation.
(COILS Program, NCI Thesaurus)
Fetal death greater than or equal to 20 weeks of gestation prior to labor and Apgar scores of 0 at 1 minute, 5 minutes and beyond.
(Antepartum Stillbirth, NCI Thesaurus)
Scores of 0-6 are considered low-risk and scores greater than 6 are considered high-risk.
(FIGO Staging System and Modified World Health Organization [WHO] Prognostic Scoring System for Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasms, NCI Thesaurus)
The study authors say additional diet patterns and scores that also were based on plant foods and low red and processed meat consumption corroborated their main findings.
(Healthy Diets Have Better Impact on Colorectal Cancer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Fetal death greater than or equal to 20 weeks of gestation during labor and Apgar scores of 0 at 1 minute, 5 minutes and beyond.
(Intrapartum Stillbirth, NCI Thesaurus)
Gleason scores range from 2 to 10 and indicate how likely it is that a tumor will spread.
(Gleason score, NCI Dictionary)
