scorer

«scorer» in Mova's school dictionary: A player who scores a goal or points — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a scorer, scorers)

meaning for a pupil

1) A player who scores a goal or points. tree →

2) A person who keeps the score in a game, especially in cricket. tree →

3) top scorer The player or pupil with the most points or goals. tree →

sense in the lessons

In sport at school and clubs: «the top scorer in netball», «goal scorer». In cricket, the scorer records every run. In quizzes and tests, «the highest scorer». Phrases: «top scorer», «leading goal scorer», «the official scorer».

examples

• She was the top scorer in the hockey match. tree →
• Our scorer kept track of every run. tree →
• The team's leading goal scorer got a trophy. tree →
• Who was the highest scorer in the spelling test? tree →
• The scorer wrote the points on the board. tree →
• He is a natural scorer. tree →

note

Countable. From «score» + «-er». In maths, a scorer with 3 goals in each of 4 games scored 3 × 4 = 12 goals.

In the corpora

• Jake and Connor both want to be top scorer; in practice Jake starts going in late on Connor's ankles.

Trees and pragmatics

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