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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoreboard/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoreboard/#x1)
- Look at the scoreboard to see who's winning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoreboard/#x2)
- The cricket scoreboard shows runs and wickets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoreboard/#x3)
- Our team finally got on the scoreboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoreboard/#x4)
- The digital scoreboard has a clock too. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoreboard/#x5)
- The scoreboard read Home 56, Away 48, so the home team led by 8. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoreboard/#x6)
- A boy changed the numbers on the old scoreboard. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoreboard/#x7)
- The scoreboard flashed "GOAL!" [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoreboard/#x8)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/235-overs-holes-frames-and-halves/1/)
- [In a single game luck, bounces and goalkeepers can decide the score, so the scoreboard doesn't always show who played better.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/67-losing-well-and-winning-well/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «scoreboard» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/scoreboard/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.