scoreboard

«scoreboard» in Mova's school dictionary: a large board or screen that shows the score in a game or… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a scoreboard, scoreboards)

meaning for a pupil

A scoreboard is a large board or screen that shows the score in a game or match. tree →

sense in the lessons

In sport and school games, the scoreboard shows points, runs, goals and time. In maths problems pupils read scoreboards to find totals and differences. Phrases: on the scoreboard, put points on the scoreboard, digital scoreboard.

examples

• The scoreboard showed 3 to 1. tree →
• Look at the scoreboard to see who's winning. tree →
• The cricket scoreboard shows runs and wickets. tree →
• Our team finally got on the scoreboard. tree →
• The digital scoreboard has a clock too. tree →
• The scoreboard read Home 56, Away 48, so the home team led by 8. tree →
• A boy changed the numbers on the old scoreboard. tree →
• The scoreboard flashed "GOAL!" tree →

note

Compound: score + board, one word. Countable. "Get on the scoreboard" means score for the first time.

In the corpora

• The scoreboard shows overs and balls: 12.3 overs means 12 full overs and 3 balls of the next one.
• In a single game luck, bounces and goalkeepers can decide the score, so the scoreboard doesn't always show who played better.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «scoreboard» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.