bill vs score

bill

noun
  • A written list or inventory. (Now obsolete except in specific senses or set phrases; bill of lading, bill of goods, etc.) 

  • A writing binding the signer or signers to pay a certain sum at a future day or on demand, with or without interest, as may be stated in the document; a bill of exchange. In the United States, it is usually called a note, a note of hand, or a promissory note. 

  • The beak of a bird, especially when small or flattish; sometimes also used with reference to a platypus, turtle, or other animal. 

  • Of a cap or hat: the brim or peak, serving as a shade to keep sun off the face and out of the eyes. 

  • A document, originally sealed; a formal statement or official memorandum. (Now obsolete except with certain qualifying words; bill of health, bill of sale etc.) 

  • The extremity of the arm of an anchor; the point of or beyond the fluke (also called the peak). 

  • A cutting instrument, with hook-shaped point, and fitted with a handle, used in pruning, etc.; a billhook. 

  • The bell, or boom, of the bittern. 

  • A written note of goods sold, services rendered, or work done, with the price or charge; an invoice. 

  • Any of various bladed or pointed hand weapons, originally designating an Anglo-Saxon sword, and later a weapon of infantry, especially in the 14th and 15th centuries, commonly consisting of a broad, heavy, double-edged, hook-shaped blade, with a short pike at the back and another at the top, attached to the end of a long staff. 

  • A piece of paper money; a banknote. 

  • One hundred dollars. 

  • A pickaxe, or mattock. 

  • A beak-like projection, especially a promontory. 

  • A set of items presented together. 

  • Somebody armed with a bill; a billman. 

  • A draft of a law, presented to a legislature for enactment; a proposed or projected law. 

  • A paper, written or printed, and posted up or given away, to advertise something, as a lecture, a play, or the sale of goods 

verb
  • To dig, chop, etc., with a bill. 

  • To advertise by a bill or public notice. 

  • To charge; to send a bill to. 

  • to stroke bill against bill, with reference to doves; to caress in fondness 

score

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

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

  • The music of a movie or play. 

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

  • A bribe paid to a police officer. 

  • 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 robbery. 

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

  • Subject. 

  • A weight of twenty pounds. 

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

  • An illegal sale, especially of drugs. 

  • A prostitute's client. 

  • A sexual conquest. 

  • Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf. 

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

  • An amount of money won in gambling; winnings. 

  • Twenty, 20. 

  • The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other. 

intj
  • Acknowledgement of success 

verb
  • To extract a bribe. 

  • To earn points in a game. 

  • To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination. 

  • To win money by gambling. 

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

  • To obtain something desired. 

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

  • To cut a notch or a groove in a surface. 

  • To acquire or gain. 

  • To obtain a sexual favor. 

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