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Scorer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, scores.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Paul Doyle Kick-off Sunday midday Venue St Mary’s Stadium Last season Southampton 2 Leicester City 2 Live Sky Sports 1 Referee Michael Oliver This season G 18, Y 60, R 1, 3.44 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 4-1 D 5-2 Southampton Subs from Taylor, Martina, Stephens, Davis, Rodriguez, Sims, Ward-Prowse Doubtful Bertrand, Davis, Van Dijk (all match fitness) Injured Boufal (knee, Jan), Hesketh (ankle, Feb), Targett (hamstring, Feb), Austin (shoulder, Mar), Pied (knee, Jun), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form DWLLLL Discipline Y37 R2 Leading scorer Austin 6 Leicester City Subs from Zieler, Hamer, Wasilewski, Gray, Fuchs, James, Okazaki, Hernández, Kapustka, King Doubtful None Injured None Suspended None Unavailable Amartey, Mahrez, Slimani (Africa Cup of Nations) Form LDLWDL Discipline Y44 R1 Leading scorers Slimani, Vardy 5
  • (2) Montreal also took advantage of the power play, as Tomas Vanek (again, another necessary scorer) grabbed one with the man advantage near the end of the second period to make it 3-0.
  • (3) Atlético Madrid maintained their faint hopes of catching Barcelona by recording a fourth straight league win, comfortably beating Deportivo la Coruña 3-0 with goals by the midfielder Saúl Ñíguez, top scorer Antoine Griezmann and Argentinian forward Ángel Correa.
  • (4) League Two’s top scorer, Matt Tubbs of Portsmouth, features alongside his team-mate Jed Wallace in the PFA’s team of that division.
  • (5) Supplier turned scorer when De Bruyne added City’s fourth, even if his initial intention was to record a hat-trick of assists.
  • (6) When compared to four experienced human scorers on randomly selected records, the program agreed as well with the human scorers as they agreed with each other, and it approached the level of agreement of these observers with themselves when they were asked to rescore the same records blindly four to six weeks later.
  • (7) Atlético were missing their leading scorer, Diego Costa, playmaker Arda Turan and centre-back Diego Godín, all through suspension, which meant that David Villa, recently dropped from the Spain squad for the 1-0 friendly win against Italy, got the nod up front.
  • (8) Jamie Jackson Manchester United’s Ashley Young out for ‘long time’ with serious groin injury Read more Kick-off Saturday 3pm Venue Old Trafford Last season Manchester United 0 Southampton 1 Referee Mike Jones This season G 15, Y 49, R 1, 3.40 cards per game Odds H 5-6 A 7-2 D 5-2 Manchester United Subs from Romero, Pereira, Powell, Rashford, Tuanzebem, Goss, McNair, Varela, Depay, Januzaj, Mata Doubtful None Injured Shaw (broken leg, May), Valencia (ankle, Mar), Rojo (shoulder, unknown), Carrick (unknown), Young (groin, unknown), Schweinsteiger (knee), Jones (match fitness) Suspended None Form LLDWDW Discipline Y37 R0 Leading scorer Rooney 6 Premier League: 10 things to look out for this weekend Read more Southampton Subs from Stekelenburg, K Davis, Martina, Yoshida, Clasie, Romeu, Tadic, Austin, Pelle, Juanmi Doubtful Stekelenburg (knock) Injured Rodriguez (knee, Mar), Gardos (knee, unknown) Suspended None Form LWLLWW Discipline Y38 R3 Leading scorer Pellè 6
  • (9) The overall results coupled with prior findings tentatively support the appropriateness of an unstructured leader role for internal scores and a structured leader role for external scorers.
  • (10) Thirty-one normal and abnormal, 3-minute, 8-channel clinical EEG recordings containing drowsiness were scored by 5 expert scorers.
  • (11) Chelsea could at least draw encouragement from Eden Hazard's winner, the team's leading scorer fed by Ashley Cole's pass to dart inside Jordi Amat and skim a shot goalwards, which Tremmel might have saved had Ashley Williams not dived across his eye-line.
  • (12) THe German striker still needs one more goal to overtake Ronaldo and become the all-time highest World Cup scorer with 16 goals.
  • (13) Scorer won £580,000 for a man who had suffered abuse as a child, one of the highest payouts in an English court.
  • (14) The Labour party says it will set a firm 2030 decarbonisation target, establish an Energy Security Board and give borrowing powers to the Green Investment Bank, but Scorer says much more will need to be done to ensure consumers are protected from rising bills.
  • (15) Carter the leading scorer for the Kings in these playoffs so that bears watching.
  • (16) He has also urged Mario Balotelli, who created the last-gasp, championship-clinching winner against Queens Park Rangers on Sunday, and Edin Dzeko, the scorer of the equaliser, to stay at City.
  • (17) 3 Creighton’s Doug McDermott might not get a lot of talk as a prospect, despite Sports Illustrated’s ridiculous decision to have him pose like Larry Bird , but it’s hard not to think that the league’s highest scorer won’t be a difference maker.
  • (18) The interview ratings also discriminated high from low scorers on the initial questionnaire.
  • (19) The Cherries secured the biggest victory of their short Premier League tenure and Afobe, who joined Bournemouth for a reported £11m from Wolves this month, was among the scorers after he opened his account with 15 minutes remaining.
  • (20) Ighalo has 26 to his name during this calender year, making him the top scorer across the whole of English football in 2015, with the one he secured for Watford in their 1-0 victory over Sunderland on 12 December taking his tally to 10 in his debut campaign in the Premier League.

Scourer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who, or that which, scours.
  • (n.) A rover or footpad; a prowling robber.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Dyeworkers and wool scourers (mostly European men in relatively dust free jobs) on average experienced an FEV1 251 ml lower than other workers when age, height, smoking habits, and occupational factors had been taken into account.
  • (2) The GP had told her to scrub them with a kitchen scourer.
  • (3) According to members of his family, he had been treated for obsessive compulsive disorder, and it is said that he was so anxious about cleanliness that he had been known to scrub himself with pan scourers.

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