Record vs. Score — What's the Difference?

To set down for preservation in writing or other permanent form

A usually numerical record of a competitive event

To register or indicate

The total number of points made by each competitor or side in a contest, either final or at a given stage

To render (sound or images) into permanent form for reproduction in a magnetic or electronic medium.

The number of points attributed to a competitor or team.

To record the words, sound, appearance, or performance of (someone or something)

A result, usually expressed numerically, of a test or examination.

To record something.

An amount due; a debt.

An account, as of information or facts, set down especially in writing as a means of preserving knowledge.

A grievance that is harbored and requires satisfaction

Something on which such an account is based.

A ground; a reason

Something that records

A group of 20 items.

Information or data on a particular subject collected and preserved

Scores Large numbers

The known history of performance, activities, or achievement

The notation of a musical work.

An unsurpassed measurement

The written form of a composition for orchestral or vocal parts.

(Computers) A collection of related, often adjacent items of data, treated as a unit.

The music written for a film or a play.

(Law) A transcript or a collection of statements and related information reporting the proceedings of a legislative body, a court, or an executive.

The act of securing an advantage, especially a surprising or significant gain

A disk designed to be played on a phonograph.

The act or an instance of buying illicit drugs.

A musical recording that is issued on a medium of some kind.

A successful robbery.

An item of information put into a temporary or permanent physical medium.

An instance of having sexual intercourse with a desired partner.

Any instance of a physical medium on which information was put for the purpose of preserving it and making it available for future reference.

A notch or incision, especially one that is made to keep a tally.

Ellipsis of phonograph record: a disc, usually made from vinyl, on which sound is recorded and may be replayed on a phonograph.

To achieve or accomplish

(computing) A set of data relating to a single individual or item.

To achieve or gain in a game or contest

(programming) A data structure similar to a struct, in some programming languages such as C# and Java based on classes and designed for storing immutable data.

To count or be worth as points

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To keep a written record of the score or events of (a game or contest).

The most extreme known value of some variable, particularly that of an achievement in competitive events.

(Baseball) To cause (a base runner) to cross home plate, especially by getting a hit

(attributive) Enough to break previous records and set a new one; world-class; extreme.

To evaluate and assign a grade to

(transitive) To make a record of information.

To orchestrate (a piece of music).

(transitive) To make an audio or video recording of.

To arrange for a specific instrument.

To give legal status to by making an official public record.

To criticize cuttingly; berate.

(intransitive) To fix in a medium, usually in a tangible medium.

To succeed in acquiring

(intransitive) To make an audio, video, or multimedia recording.

To succeed in obtaining (an illicit drug)

To repeat; to practice.

To mark (a piece of paper or wood, for example) with lines or notches, especially for the purpose of keeping a record.

To sing or repeat a tune.

To cancel or eliminate by superimposing lines.

(obsolete) To reflect; to ponder.

To mark the surface of (meat, for example) with usually parallel cuts.

To recall to mind; to recollect; to remember; to meditate.

To make a point or points in a game or contest.

To repeat; to recite; to sing or play.

To record the score or progress of a game or contest.

To preserve the memory of, by committing to writing, to printing, to inscription, or the like; to make note of; to write or enter in a book or on parchment, for the purpose of preserving authentic evidence of; to register; to enroll; as, to record the proceedings of a court; to record historical events.

To achieve a purpose or advantage, especially to make a surprising gain or coup

To reflect; to ponder.

To succeed in having sexual relations with a desired partner.

To sing or repeat a tune.

To succeed in buying or obtaining an illicit drug.

A writing by which some act or event, or a number of acts or events, is recorded; a register; as, a record of the acts of the Hebrew kings; a record of the variations of temperature during a certain time; a family record.

The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.

An official contemporaneous writing by which the acts of some public body, or public officer, are recorded; as, a record of city ordinances; the records of the receiver of taxes.

The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.

Testimony; witness; attestation.

The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.

That which serves to perpetuate a knowledge of acts or events; a monument; a memorial.

Twenty, 20.

That which has been, or might be, recorded; the known facts in the course, progress, or duration of anything, as in the life of a public man; as, a politician with a good or a bad record.

(gambling) An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.

That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.

A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.

Anything (such as a document or a phonograph record or a photograph) providing permanent evidence of or information about past events;

A weight of twenty pounds.

The number of wins versus losses and ties a team has had;

(music) The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts.

An extreme attainment; the best (or worst) performance ever attested (as in a sport);

(music) The music of a movie or play.

Sound recording consisting of a disc with continuous grooves; formerly used to reproduce music by rotating while a phonograph needle tracked in the grooves

Subject.

The sum of recognized accomplishments;

Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

A list of crimes for which an accused person has been previously convicted;

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

A compilation of the known facts regarding something or someone;

An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; debt.

A document that can serve as legal evidence of a transaction;

A criminal act, especially:

Make a record of; set down in permanent form

A robbery.

Register electronically;

A bribe paid to a police officer.

Indicate a certain reading; of gauges and instruments;

An illegal sale, especially of drugs.

Be aware of;

A prostitute's client.

Be or provide a memorial to a person or an event;

A sexual conquest.

In the Lowestoft area, a narrow pathway running down a cliff to the beach.

(transitive) To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.

(intransitive) To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.

(ambitransitive) To obtain something desired.

To earn points in a game.

To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test.

(gambling) To win money by gambling.

(slang) To acquire or gain.

To extract a bribe.

To obtain a sexual favor.

(transitive) To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.

Acknowledgement of success

A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.

An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.

Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.

The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.

A distance of twenty yards; - a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.

A weight of twenty pounds.

The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.

A line drawn; a groove or furrow.

The original and entire draught, or its transcript, of a composition, with the parts for all the different instruments or voices written on staves one above another, so that they can be read at a glance; - so called from the bar, which, in its early use, was drawn through all the parts.

The grade received on an examination, such as those given in school or as a qualifying examination for a job or admission to school; - it may be expressed as a percentage of answers which are correct, or as a number or letter; as, a score of 98 in a civil service exam.

To mark with lines, scratches, or notches; to cut notches or furrows in; to notch; to scratch; to furrow; as, to score timber for hewing; to score the back with a lash.

Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.

To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.

To engrave, as upon a shield.

To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.

To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.

To keep the score in a game; to act as scorer.

To make or count a point or points, as in a game; to tally.

To run up a score, or account of dues.

To succeed in finding a partner for sexual intercourse; to make a sexual conquest.

To purchase drugs illegally.

A number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance);

A written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages;

A number that expresses the accomplishment of a team or an individual in a game or contest;

A set of twenty members;

Grounds;

The facts about an actual situation;

An amount due (as at a restaurant or bar);

A slight surface cut (especially a notch that is made to keep a tally)

A resentment strong enough to justify retaliation;

The act of scoring in a game or sport;

A seduction culminating in sexual intercourse;

Gain points in a game;

Make small marks into the surface of;

Make underscoring marks

Write a musical score for

Induce to have sex;

Get a certain number or letter indicating quality or performance;

Assign a grade or rank to, according to one's evaluation;