scorer

English

Noun

scorer (plural scorers)

1. One who scores.

   Shearer finished among the top ten goal scorers in 10 out of his 14 seasons in the Premier League and won the top scorer title three times.

   • 2012 April 21, Jonathan Jurejko, “Newcastle 3-0 Stoke”, BBC Sport:

     But chances were rare for the lowest scorers in the Premier League against a Newcastle defence which claimed a fourth straight clean sheet.

2. One who scores: a scorekeeper.

   The team was making goals so fast the scorer could barely keep up.

3. (cricket) Either of a pair of people, one provided by each side, who record in a specially formatted book, every ball bowled, every run scored, and every wicket that falls

Related terms

• scoreboard
• scorebox
• trouble the scorers

Translations

one who scores

• Finnish: maalintekijä (fi)
• French: buteur (fr) m, buteuse (fr)

• German: Torschütze m (goal scorer)

scorekeeper — see scorekeeper

Anagrams

• corers, crores

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French

Verb

scorer

1. (sports) to score (a goal)

Conjugation

   Conjugation of scorer (see also Appendix:French verbs)

		simple			compound
infinitive		scorer			avoir scoré
gerund		en scorant			en ayant scoré
present participle		scorant
past participle		scoré
person		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il	nous	vous	ils
simple tenses	present	score	scores	score	scorons	scorez	scorent
	imperfect	scorais	scorais	scorait	scorions	scoriez	scoraient
	past historic1	scorai	scoras	scora	scorâmes	scorâtes	scorèrent
	future	scorerai	scoreras	scorera	scorerons	scorerez	scoreront
	conditional	scorerais	scorerais	scorerait	scorerions	scoreriez	scoreraient
compound tenses	present perfect	Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect	Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	past anterior1	Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	future perfect	Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
	conditional perfect	Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il	que nous	que vous	qu’ils
simple tenses	present	score	scores	score	scorions	scoriez	scorent
	imperfect1	scorasse	scorasses	scorât	scorassions	scorassiez	scorassent
compound tenses	past	Use the present subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
	pluperfect1	Use the imperfect subjunctive of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
		—	score	—	scorons	scorez	—
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