scoreboard

nounB1+Occasional — familiar, but not everyday · #9,999 of 15,258leans written

Other forms: scoreboards

A scoreboard is the big display that shows the points during a match. Check the scoreboard, the scoreboard flashed, a manual scoreboard.

The hand-operated ones with sliding numbers survive at a few cricket and football grounds and are loved for it. Scoreboard pressure is a real thing in cricket: a large total on the board changes how the chasing side bats.

Definitions of scoreboard

1nounscoreboardThe big display that shows the points during a match.B1+
“The fans groaned when they looked up at the scoreboard in the final minute.”

scoreboard is a display.

Where it comes from

From score + board.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Sports & Fitness

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scoreboard in the wild

A scoreboard is a large board for publicly displaying the score in a game.
Scoreboard
Most levels of sport from high school and above use at least one scoreboard for keeping score, measuring time, and displaying statistics.
Scoreboard
In a scoreboard, the data dependencies of every instruction are logged, tracked and strictly observed at all times.
Scoreboarding
Since then, variants of the scoreboard framework have played an important role in dynamic semantics, formal pragmatics and recent work in social and political philosophy of language.
Conversational scoreboard

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