What's the difference between score and single?

Score


Definition:

  • (n.) A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
  • (n.) An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
  • (n.) Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
  • (n.) The number twenty, as being marked off by a special score or tally; hence, in pl., a large number.
  • (n.) A distance of twenty yards; -- a term used in ancient archery and gunnery.
  • (n.) A weight of twenty pounds.
  • (n.) The number of points gained by the contestants, or either of them, in any game, as in cards or cricket.
  • (n.) A line drawn; a groove or furrow.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (v. t.) 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.
  • (v. t.) Especially, to mark with significant lines or notches, for indicating or keeping account of something; as, to score a tally.
  • (v. t.) To mark or signify by lines or notches; to keep record or account of; to set down; to record; to charge.
  • (v. t.) To engrave, as upon a shield.
  • (v. t.) To make a score of, as points, runs, etc., in a game.
  • (v. t.) To write down in proper order and arrangement; as, to score an overture for an orchestra. See Score, n., 9.
  • (n.) To mark with parallel lines or scratches; as, the rocks of New England and the Western States were scored in the drift epoch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
  • (2) Large gender differences were found in the correlations between the RAS, CR, run frequency, and run duration with the personality, mood, and locus of control scores.
  • (3) Phenotypic relationships were examined between final score and 13 type appraisal traits and first lactation milk yield from 2935 Ayrshire, 3154 Brown Swiss, 13,110 Guernsey, 50,422 Jersey, and 924 Milking Shorthorn records.
  • (4) Moments later, Strauss introduces the bold human character with an energetic, upwards melody which he titles "the climb" in the score.
  • (5) The mean acne scores, derived from grading and counting lesions and comedones, fell from 63.3 to 6 in the Diane 50 and from 64.2 to 4.5 in the Triphasil group.
  • (6) The positive predictive accuracy of a biophysical profile score of 0, with mortality and morbidity used as end points, was 100%.
  • (7) Disabled men also were more depressed and anxious and had lower ego strength and higher hypochondriasis scores on the MMPI, but were no different in type A behavior.
  • (8) Higher anxiety, depression and psychiatric morbidity scores were reported by all patients at 6 and, to a lesser extent, at 12 weeks with greater differences in women.
  • (9) Intelligence scores are also related to feeding patterns, with those exclusively breastfed for 4-9 months displaying the highest scores in relation to their age.
  • (10) High score on the hysteria scale of Middlesex Hospital Questionnaire was a risk indicator for all kinds of back pain.
  • (11) The group studied scored within the normal range on the traits assessed by the EPQ, STAIX, and STAI.
  • (12) However, as all subjects had normal hearing and maximum speech discrimination scores pre-smoking, it can only be concluded that smoking marihuana did not worsen the hearing--the experiments were not designed to see whether it would improve hearing.
  • (13) Following thawing, the initial motility index (MI) scores of mf cryopreserved by either method were not significantly different from untreated controls; however, over a period of 15 days in culture the MI scores of both cryopreserved groups showed a small but significant overall decline, with the methanol technique producing the lowest scores.
  • (14) When power-transformed scores are used to eliminate skewness, there is evidence for one distribution and it is not possible to distinguish single gene from multifactorial (polygenic or cultural) inheritance.
  • (15) Special conditions apply for the scoring of a first and a last bone stage in a sequence, which will introduce less bias in the estimation of individual skeletal maturity with the MAT-method than with the TW-method.
  • (16) We detected no evidence for heterogeneity in this sample, but when we combined results with previously published lod scores, heterogeneity was statistically significant.
  • (17) Chromosome aberrations were scored in BHK21 C13 Syrian hamster fibroblasts, exposed to 60Co gamma-rays, 250 kV X-rays, 15 MeV neutrons or neutrons of mean energy 2.1 MeV produced from the 9Be(d,n)10B reaction.
  • (18) Ex-patients of a dental fear clinic were found to have significantly reduced, yet still high, dental anxiety scores in comparison with the pre-intervention scores.
  • (19) No statistically significant differences were found in the scores by level of educational preparation or by years of experience.
  • (20) The result shows that the great majority of children recorded considerably higher discrimination scores when the tests were performed with their individual hearing aids than with the test lists presented through the audiometer and the TDH-49 earphone.

Single


Definition:

  • (a.) One only, as distinguished from more than one; consisting of one alone; individual; separate; as, a single star.
  • (a.) Alone; having no companion.
  • (a.) Hence, unmarried; as, a single man or woman.
  • (a.) Not doubled, twisted together, or combined with others; as, a single thread; a single strand of a rope.
  • (a.) Performed by one person, or one on each side; as, a single combat.
  • (a.) Uncompounded; pure; unmixed.
  • (a.) Not deceitful or artful; honest; sincere.
  • (a.) Simple; not wise; weak; silly.
  • (v. t.) To select, as an individual person or thing, from among a number; to choose out from others; to separate.
  • (v. t.) To sequester; to withdraw; to retire.
  • (v. t.) To take alone, or one by one.
  • (v. i.) To take the irrregular gait called single-foot;- said of a horse. See Single-foot.
  • (n.) A unit; one; as, to score a single.
  • (n.) The reeled filaments of silk, twisted without doubling to give them firmness.
  • (n.) A handful of gleaned grain.
  • (n.) A game with but one player on each side; -- usually in the plural.
  • (n.) A hit by a batter which enables him to reach first base only.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The influence of the various concepts for the induction of lateral structure formation in lipid membranes on integral functional units like ionophores is demonstrated by analysing the single channel current fluctuations of gramicidin in bimolecular lipid membranes.
  • (2) Renal micropuncture and microdissection techniques with ultramicro fluid analysis have been applied to evaluate single nephron function in the skate, Raja erinacea.
  • (3) Single-case experimental designs are presented and discussed from several points of view: Historical antecedents, assessment of the dependent variable, internal and external validity and pre-experimental vs experimental single-case designs.
  • (4) Microionophoretically applied excitatory amino acids induced firing of extracellularly recorded single units in a tissue slice preparation of the mouse cochlear nucleus, and the similarly applied antagonist 2-amino-5-phosphonovalerate (2APV) was demonstrated to be a selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist.
  • (5) The coefficient of variation in the integrated area of a single peak is 16%.
  • (6) The diffusion of Myocamicin in the prostatic tissue of patients undergoing prostatectomy after a single oral dose of 600 mg has been studied.
  • (7) Infection with opportunistic organisms, either singly or in combination, is known to occur in immunocompromised patients.
  • (8) Radioligand binding studies revealed the presence of a single class of high-affinity (Kd = 2-6 X 10(-10) M) binding sites for ET-1 in both cells, although the maximal binding capacity of cardiac receptor was about 6- to 12-fold greater than that of vascular receptor.
  • (9) Pituitary weight, mitotic index and chromosomes were studied in male rats following a single or repeated dose of estradiol-benzoate for a total period of 210 days.
  • (10) The manufacturers, British Aerospace describe it as a "single-seat, radar equipped, lightweight, multi-role combat aircraft, providing comprehensive air defence and ground attack capability".
  • (11) Cop rats, however, possess a single 'suppressor' gene which confers complete resistance to mammary cancer.
  • (12) Comparison if single injections of MSB and atropine in normal subjects also demonstrated a more reliable dose-response relationship with MSB.
  • (13) Since interferon alfa-2b (Intron A) is useful as a single agent, it is important to determine if interferon can be combined with standard chemotherapy to improve both response and survival in patients with cancer.
  • (14) This suggests that Mg2+ accelerated both reactions from a single class of site.
  • (15) In crosses between inverted repeats, a single intrachromatid reciprocal exchange leads to inversion of the sequence between the crossover sites and recovery of both genes involved in the event.
  • (16) Median effect analysis was applied for the evaluation of in vitro effect by the growth inhibition, and the in vivo effect by comparison of the increase of life span (ILS) in a combined group with the sum of ILS's in 2 single agent groups.
  • (17) Certainly, Saunders did not land a single blow that threatened to stop his opponent, although he took quite a few himself that threatened his titles in the final few rounds.
  • (18) The results indicated that roughly 25% of patients treated in this way will become hypothyroid after 5 years and that 85% are cured (need no further therapy during the follow-up period) using a single dose of iodine-131.
  • (19) In the triploids, the 40 female chromosomes present (mouse, n = 20) were derived from a single diploid pronucleus formed after the extrusion of a first polar body, and following the monospermic fertilization of primary oocytes.
  • (20) Such an approach to investigations into subclinical mastitis is not feasible by means of either single- or double-parameter techniques.