Cricket

Noun

 * 1) An insect in the order Orthoptera that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
 * 2) A wooden footstool.
 * 3) A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions
 * 4) A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint or other projection.
 * 5)  Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.

Derived terms

 * house cricket
 * mole cricket
 * Mormon cricket

Noun

 * 1)  A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
 * 2)  An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
 * ''That player's foul wasn't cricket!

Antonyms

 * not cricket

Verb

 * 1)   To play the game of cricket.

Adjectives
lusty;  creaking;   humming;   chirping; drumming; incessant.

Verbs
plague with—s; —chirps; —fiddles; —rubs; —sings; —shrills.

Thesaurus
Klaxon, boiler factory, boiler room, bull-roarer, candor, catcall, cherry bomb, cicada, cicala, clack, clacker, clapper, cracker, dog-day cicada, fair play, fair shake, fair-mindedness, fairness, firecracker, good sportsmanship, grasshopper, hopper, hoppergrass, horn, locust, noisemaker, rattle, rattlebox, siren, snapper, sportsmanlikeness, sportsmanliness, sportsmanship, square deal, steam whistle, the fair thing, the handsome thing, the proper thing, ticktack, whistle, whizgig, whizzer

Etymology 1
From criquet:, from criquer:.

Etymology 2
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met 'with' de 'the' krik ketsen 'to ricochet', i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".



Translations

 * Afrikaans: krieket
 * Albanian:
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: grill
 * Chamicuro:
 * Chinese: 蟋蟀 (xīshuài)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:, cri-cri,
 * German:
 * Greek:, τριζόνι
 * Hebrew: צַרְצוּר (tzartzúr)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: krybba
 * Irish: cruicéad
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: 蟋蟀 (コオロギ, kōrogi)
 * Korean: 귀뚜라미 (gwitturami)
 * Kurdish:
 * Sorani: کوله


 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: svirplys
 * Macedonian: штурец
 * Maltese: grillu
 * Navajo:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: сверчок
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic:
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:, ariddu
 * Slovak: svrček, kriket
 * Slovene: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: syrsa
 * Thai: จิ้งหรีด
 * Ukrainian:
 * Vietnamese: con dế
 * Welsh:


 * Albanian: fron


 * Hungarian:

Noun

 * Albanian:
 * Arabic: كريكت
 * Armenian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 板球
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Gujarati: ક્રિકેટ
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Irish: cruicéad
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: クリケット


 * Korean:
 * Macedonian:
 * Marathi:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: کریکت
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: críquete
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:, criogaid
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: крикет
 * Roman: kriket
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: kriketi
 * Swedish:, kricket
 * Thai: จิ้งหรีด
 * Urdu:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, reilu


 * Italian:
 * Swedish:


 * : krieket
 * : críquet
 * : críquet
 * : κρίκετ
 * : krikket
 * : krikket


 * : kriketas
 * : krikkit
 * : críquete
 * : क्रिकेट (krikeṭ)
 * : críquet
 * : críquet
 * : críquet
 * : críquet





Verb

 * Dutch: cricketen

Noun

 * 1) cricket (sport)

Noun

 * 1) cricket (sport)

Noun

 * 1) cricket (sport)

Noun
cricket


 * 1)  cricket

Alternative forms

 * kricket (less common)

Derived terms

 * cricketboll
 * cricketlag
 * cricketmatch
 * cricketplan