tarkoitusperä — meaning in English

English meaning

• occasion noun A particular time when something happens, especially something notable.
• score noun The total number of points, goals, or runs earned in a game or contest.

Senses

tarkoitusperä is used for these senses in English:

• occasion A reason or excuse; a motive; a persuasion.
• score An account; a reason; a motive; a sake; a behalf.

occasion — full definition

1. noun A particular time when something happens, especially something notable.
2. noun A reason, opportunity, or need for something.
3. verb To cause or bring about.

score — full definition

1. noun The total number of points, goals, or runs earned in a game or contest.
2. noun The written music for all the parts of a composition, or the music composed for a film or play.
3. noun Old-fashioned or literary: a group of twenty.
4. verb To earn points, goals, or marks in a game or test.
5. verb Informal: to successfully obtain something desired, including illegal drugs.

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