Winglets Save Billions of Dollars in Fuel Costs. Transportation. Originating Technology/NASA Contribution. Anyone who has made a paper airplane knows that folding the wingtips upward makes your plane look better and fly farther, though the reasons for the latter might be a mystery.
The noun SCORE has 11 senses: 1. a number or letter indicating quality (especially of a student's performance). 2. a written form of a musical composition; parts for different instruments appear on separate staves on large pages.
Meanings to keep record of the scores in a game, etc. and to make or add a point for one's side in a game, etc. both attested from 1742. The slang sense, in reference to men, achieve intercourse first recorded 1960. Meaning to be scorekeeper, to keep the score in a game or contest is from 1846.