scoring
IPA: skˈɔrɪŋ
noun
- The process of keeping score in a sport or contest.
- The process of winning points in a sport or contest.
- The action of scratching paper or other material to make it easier to fold.
- A deep groove made by glacial action or similar.
adjective
- Of something or someone that scores.
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Examples of "scoring" in Sentences
- They've gone to what I call the scoring areas in front of the net.
- Notes: Posey's season-high in scoring is 26 points, at New Jersey in December. ...
- Junior Jazz Covington, who leads the team in scoring, is seventh on Louisville's career rebounding list.
- Iverson finished 15-of-25, including three 3-pointers, but he was hardly alone in scoring from the perimeter.
- The Lady Gamecocks also had a 19-4 edge in scoring from the free-throw line and a 47-30 rebounding advantage.
- It is this area of the ice that defines the term "scoring chance," and we should see a skater convert ~15 percent of them to goals, on average.
- Notes: Blue Jackets rookie center Derek Brassard, second on the team in scoring, is out indefinitely due to a separate shoulder sustained in a fight.
- "We have tried to make a comparison and have done what we call scoring, to see what is the degree of freedom from state regulations," Thomas Estermann, the lead author of the report, said in a telephone interview from Brussels.
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