The difference between Fang and Score
When used as nouns, fang means a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh, whereas score means the total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
When used as verbs, fang means to strike or attack with the fangs, whereas score means to cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
Score is also interjection with the meaning: acknowledgement of success.
check bellow for the other definitions of Fang and Score
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Fang as a noun:
a long, pointed canine tooth used for biting and tearing flesh
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Fang as a noun:
a long pointed tooth for injecting venom
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Fang as a verb (rare):
To strike or attack with the fangs.
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Fang as a verb:
To enable to catch or tear; to furnish with fangs.
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Fang as a verb (transitive, dialectal, or, archaic):
To catch, capture; seize; grip; clutch; lay hold of.
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Fang as a verb (transitive, dialectal, or, obsolete):
To take; receive with assent; accept.
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Fang as a verb (transitive, obsolete, as a guest):
To receive with hospitality; welcome.
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Fang as a verb (transitive, obsolete, a thing given or imposed):
To receive.
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Fang as a verb (transitive, dialectal):
To receive or adopt into spiritual relation, as in baptism; be godfather or godmother to.
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Fang as a noun (now, chiefly, dialectal, Scotland):
A grasping; capture; the act or power of seizing; hold.
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Fang as a noun:
That which is seized or carried off; booty; spoils; stolen goods.
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Fang as a noun:
Any projection, catch, shoot, or other thing by which hold is taken; a prehensile part or organ.
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Fang as a noun (mining):
A channel cut in the rock, or a pipe of wood, used for conveying air.
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Fang as a noun (rare, in the plural):
Cage-shuts.
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Fang as a noun (nautical):
The coil or bend of a rope; a noose; a trap.
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Fang as a noun (nautical):
The valve of a pump box.
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Fang as a verb (Scotland, transitive):
To supply (a pump) with the water necessary for it to operate.
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Score as a noun:
The total number of goals, points, runs, etc. earned by a participant in a game.
Examples:
"The player with the highest score is the winner."
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Score as a noun:
The number of points accrued by each of the participants in a game, expressed as a ratio or a series of numbers.
Examples:
"The score is 8-1 even though it's not even half-time!"
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Score as a noun:
The performance of an individual or group on an examination or test, expressed by a number, letter, or other symbol; a grade.
Examples:
"The test scores for this class were high."
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Score as a noun:
Twenty, 20 (number).
Examples:
"Some words have scores of meanings."
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Score as a noun:
A distance of twenty yards, in ancient archery and gunnery.
Examples:
"rfquotek Halliwell"
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Score as a noun:
A weight of twenty pounds.
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Score as a noun (music):
The written form of a musical composition showing all instrumental and vocal parts below each other.
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Score as a noun (music):
The music of a movie or play.
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Score as a noun:
Subject.
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Score as a noun:
Account; reason; motive; sake; behalf.
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Score as a noun:
A notch or incision; especially, one that is made as a tally mark; hence, a mark, or line, made for the purpose of account.
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Score as a noun:
An account or reckoning; account of dues; bill; hence, indebtedness.
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Score as a noun (US, crime, slang):
A robbery; a criminal act.
Examples:
"Let's pull a score!"
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Score as a noun (US, crime, slang):
A bribe paid to a police officer.
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Score as a noun (US, crime, slang):
An illegal sale, especially of drugs.
Examples:
"He made a big score."
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Score as a noun (US, crime, slang):
A prostitute's client.
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Score as a noun (US, vulgar, slang):
A sexual conquest.
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Score as a verb (transitive):
To cut a notch or a groove in a surface.
Examples:
"The baker scored the cake so that the servers would know where to slice it."
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Score as a verb (intransitive):
To record the tally of points for a game, a match, or an examination.
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Score as a verb (ambitransitive):
To obtain something desired. To earn points in a game. To achieve (a score) in e.g. a test. To acquire or gain. To extract a bribe. To obtain a sexual favor.
Examples:
"It is unusual for a team to score a hundred goals in one game."
"Pelé scores again!"
"I scored some drugs last night."
"Did you score tickets for the concert?"
"Chris finally scored with Pat last week."
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Score as a verb (transitive):
To provide (a film, etc.) with a musical score.