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cricket
crick·et 1 C0746500 (krĭk′ĭt)n. Any of various orthopteran insects of the family Gryllidae, having long antennae and legs adapted for leaping. The males of many species produce a shrill chirping sound by rubbing the front wings together.
[Middle English criket, from Old French criquet, from criquer, to click, of imitative origin.]
crick·et 2 C0746500 (krĭk′ĭt)n.1. Sports An outdoor game played with bats, a ball, and wickets by two teams of 11 players each.2. Good sportsmanship and fair conduct: It's not cricket to cheat at cards.intr.v. crick·et·ed, crick·et·ing, crick·ets Sports To play the game of cricket.
[Obsolete French criquet, piece of wood, from Old French, stick for a bowling game, perhaps from Middle Dutch cricke, walking stick.]
crick′et·er, crick′et·eer′ (-ĭ-tîr′) n.
crick·et 3 C0746500 (krĭk′ĭt)n. A small wooden footstool.
[Origin unknown.]
crick·et 4 C0746500 (krĭk′ĭt)n. A ridged structure made of two adjoining triangular pieces covered with flashing or roofing material and built at the upper intersection of a roof and chimney to divert water and prevent the accumulation of snow and debris. Also called saddle.
[Origin unknown.]cricket (ˈkrɪkɪt) n1. (Animals) any insect of the orthopterous family Gryllidae, having long antennae and, in the males, the ability to produce a chirping sound (stridulation) by rubbing together the leathery forewings2. (Animals) any of various related insects, such as the mole cricket[C14: from Old French criquet, from criquer to creak, of imitative origin]
cricket (ˈkrɪkɪt) n1. (Cricket) a. a game played by two teams of eleven players on a field with a wicket at either end of a 22-yard pitch, the object being for one side to score runs by hitting a hard leather-covered ball with a bat while the other side tries to dismiss them by bowling, catching, running them out, etcb. (as modifier): a cricket bat. 2. not cricket informal not fair playvb (intr) (Cricket) to play cricket[C16: from Old French criquet goalpost, wicket, of uncertain origin] ˈcricketer n
cricket (ˈkrɪkɪt) n (Furniture) a small low stool[C17: of unknown origin]crick•et1 (ˈkrɪk ɪt)
n. 1. any of several jumping orthopterous insects of the family Gryllidae, characterized by long antennae and stridulating organs on the forewings of the male. 2. a small, hand-held metal toy that makes a clicking, cricketlike noise when pressed. [1275–1325; Middle English criket insect < Old French criquet=criqu(er) to creak (imitative) + -et -et] crick•et2 (ˈkrɪk ɪt)
n. 1. a game, popular esp. in England, for two teams of 11 members each that is played on a field having two wickets, the object being to score runs by batting the ball far enough so that one is enabled to exchange wickets with the batsman defending the opposite wicket before the ball is recovered. 2. fair and honorable conduct: It's not cricket to ask such questions. v.i. 3. to play cricket. [1590–1600; < Middle French criquet goalpost] crick′et•er, n. crick•et3 (ˈkrɪk ɪt)
n. a small, low stool. [1635–45; of obscure orig.] cricket
Past participle: cricketed
Gerund: cricketing
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| I cricketed | | you cricketed | | he/she/it cricketed | | we cricketed | | you cricketed | | they cricketed |
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| I am cricketing | | you are cricketing | | he/she/it is cricketing | | we are cricketing | | you are cricketing | | they are cricketing |
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| I have cricketed | | you have cricketed | | he/she/it has cricketed | | we have cricketed | | you have cricketed | | they have cricketed |
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| I was cricketing | | you were cricketing | | he/she/it was cricketing | | we were cricketing | | you were cricketing | | they were cricketing |
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| I had cricketed | | you had cricketed | | he/she/it had cricketed | | we had cricketed | | you had cricketed | | they had cricketed |
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| I will cricket | | you will cricket | | he/she/it will cricket | | we will cricket | | you will cricket | | they will cricket |
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| I will have cricketed | | you will have cricketed | | he/she/it will have cricketed | | we will have cricketed | | you will have cricketed | | they will have cricketed |
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| I will be cricketing | | you will be cricketing | | he/she/it will be cricketing | | we will be cricketing | | you will be cricketing | | they will be cricketing |
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| I have been cricketing | | you have been cricketing | | he/she/it has been cricketing | | we have been cricketing | | you have been cricketing | | they have been cricketing |
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| I would cricket | | you would cricket | | he/she/it would cricket | | we would cricket | | you would cricket | | they would cricket |
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| I would have cricketed | | you would have cricketed | | he/she/it would have cricketed | | we would have cricketed | | you would have cricketed | | they would have cricketed |
Thesaurus| Noun | 1. |  cricket - leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings togetherorthopteran, orthopteron, orthopterous insect - any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthpartsfamily Gryllidae, Gryllidae - cricketsmole cricket - digs in moist soil and feeds on plant rootsAcheta domestica, European house cricket - lives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of AmericaAcheta assimilis, field cricket - common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellingstree cricket - pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation | | 2. | cricket - a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runsbowling - (cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsmansnick - a glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bathat trick - (sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.)innings - the batting turn of a cricket player or teamfield game - an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensionscricket equipment - sports equipment used in playing cricketstump - (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicketduck's egg, duck - (cricket) a score of nothing by a batsmanover - (cricket) the division of play during which six balls are bowled at the batsman by one player from the other team from the same end of the pitchmaiden over, maiden - (cricket) an over in which no runs are scoredsnick - hit a glancing blow with the edge of the batbowl - hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end | | Verb | 1. | cricket - play cricketplay - participate in games or sport; "We played hockey all afternoon"; "play cards"; "Pele played for the Brazilian teams in many important matches" |
cricketCricket terms appeal, Ashes, bail, ball, bat, batsman, bouncer or bumper, boundary, bowl, bowled, bowler, bye, catch, caught, century, chinaman, cover point, covers, crease, cut, declare, drive, duck, edge, extra, extra cover, fast bowler, fielder or fieldsman, fine leg, follow on, four, full toss, glance or glide, googly, gully, hit wicket, hook, in, innings, leg before wicket, leg break, leg bye, leg slip, long leg, long off, long on, maiden (over), mid off, mid on, mid wicket, nightwatchman, no ball, off break, off side, on side or leg side, opener or opening batsman, out, over, pad, pitch, pull, run, run out, seam, short leg, silly mid on, silly mid off, single, six, slip, spin, square leg, stump, stumped, sweep, swing, test match, third man, twelfth man, umpire, wicket, wicketkeeper, wide, yorkerTranslationscricket1 (ˈkrikit) noun an outdoor game played with bats, a ball and wickets, between two sides of eleven each. 板球 板球ˈcricketer noun 板球員 打板球的人not cricket unfair; not sportsmanlike. 不公平，不光明正大 不公平，不正大光明
cricket2 (ˈkrikit) noun an insect related to the grasshopper, the male of which makes a chirping noise. 蟋蟀 蟋蟀cricket
holy cricketsAn exclamation of surprise, shock, or astonishment. Holy crickets, the bill for that dinner is nearly $200! We won the lottery? Holy crickets, that's amazing news!See also: cricket, holyjiminy cricketA minced oath for "Jesus Christ," expressing surprise, shock, or astonishment. Jiminy cricket, the bill for that dinner is nearly $200! We won the lottery? Jiminy cricket, that's amazing news!See also: cricketit's not cricketIt isn't fair, sportsmanlike, or legitimate. I know you want to avoid confrontation, but it's not cricket to break up with someone by text message. I don't see why you think it's not cricket—everyone else does it all the time.See also: cricket, notit's just not cricketIt isn't fair, sportsmanlike, or legitimate. I know you want to avoid confrontation, but it's just not cricket to break up with someone by text message. You say it's just not cricket, but everyone else fluffs up their CV when they apply for a job.See also: cricket, just, notmerry as a cricketold-fashioned Jubilant; especially carefree, lively, and full of fun. Tom is playing outside, merry as a cricket. Though he acts as merry as a cricket, he is dreadfully unhappy when he is all alone.See also: cricket, merrya cricket on the hearthA sign of good health and good fortune. I'm putting this cricket statuette here because a cricket on the hearth is supposed to bring good luck.See also: cricket, hearth, onIt's not cricket. and It's not kosher.It's not done.; It's not acceptable. You can't do that! It's not cricket!See also: cricket, not*merry as a cricket and *merry as the day is longvery happy and carefree. (*Also: as ~.) Mary is as merry as a cricket whenever she has company come to call. The little children are as merry as the day is long.See also: cricket, merrynot cricketUnfair, unsportsmanlike, as in It's not cricket to let him go without notice. This term, in which the sport of cricket is equated with upright behavior, survives in America despite the relative unfamiliarity of the sport there. [Mid-1800s] See also: cricket, notit's just not cricket or it's not cricket BRITISH, OLD-FASHIONEDPeople say it's just not cricket or it's not cricket to mean that someone's behaviour is unfair or unreasonable. Companies can't treat their staff like that — it's not cricket! Note: Cricket is traditionally associated with the values of fairness and respect for other players. See also: cricket, just, notnot cricket contrary to traditional standards of fairness or rectitude. British informal The game of cricket, with its traditional regard for courtesy and fair play, has been a metaphor for these qualities since at least the mid 19th century.See also: cricket, notit’s (just) not ˈcricket (old-fashioned, British English, informal) it is not a fair or an honourable action or way of behavingSee also: cricket, notcricket mod. acceptable. (See negative examples at not cricket.) Is it really cricket to play under two different names? not cricket mod. unfair; illegitimate; unorthodox. (See affirmative examples at cricket.) What do you mean it’s not cricket? You do it. See also: cricket, notnot cricket, it's/that'sUnsportsmanlike, unfair, dishonorable. Eric Partridge traced this term to 1867 but believed it was not widely used until the early twentieth century. Among the early references in print is Stanley Houghton’s 1914 play, The Partners, “. . . but it is not playing the game. In other words, Cynthia, it is not cricket.” Although cricket is a sport popular exclusively in Great Britain and most of its former colonies, the term crossed the Atlantic and became a cliché in the United States as well.See also: notcricket on the hearthA symbol of good luck and health. A cricket on the hearth has been a sign of household luck for millennia and in many cultures. Crickets were widely considered to bring good fortune as well as a kind of companionship. Representations of a cricket have long been included as a fireplace decoration. The expression “to find a cricket on the hearth is the luckiest thing of all” comes from Charles Dickens's novella, Cricket on the Hearth.See also: cricket, hearth, oncricket
cricket, common name of the slender, chirping, hopping insectsinsect,
invertebrate animal of the class Insecta of the phylum Arthropoda. Like other arthropods, an insect has a hard outer covering, or exoskeleton, a segmented body, and jointed legs. Adult insects typically have wings and are the only flying invertebrates.
..... Click the link for more information. forming the family Gryllidae in the order Orthoptera. Most crickets have long antennae, muscular hind legs for jumping, and two pairs of fully developed wings. In some subfamilies the wings are reduced or absent. In most subfamilies the males have song-producing, or stridulatory, organs on the front wings. Both sexes possess auditory organs on the forelegs. The stridulatory apparatus is most highly developed in the field crickets and the tree crickets. Members of these subfamilies have a ridged region, which acts as a file, and a hardened region, which acts as a scraper, on each front wing; sound is produced by rubbing the wings together. Crickets reproduce sexually, producing from one to three generations per year. The females usually lay eggs in the ground or in soft-stemmed plants during the late summer or fall. The eggs hatch in the spring and the emerging young are similar to the adults except for their smaller size and lack of wings. Crickets occur mostly in the temperate climates. The common field crickets of the United States are species of the genus Gryllus; all are brown to black, about 1 in. (2.5 cm) long, and are found in fields and meadows and often in houses. The tree crickets are slender, pale green or whitish insects of trees and shrubs; most U.S. species belong to the genus Oecanthus. The rate of chirping of tree crickets increases with increasing temperature. In the snowy tree cricket, Oecanthus fultoni, this variation is so regular that if the number 40 is added to the number of chirps per 15-sec interval, the sum is a fair approximation of the temperature in degrees Fahrenheit. Ant-loving crickets are tiny wingless forms 1-8 in. to 1-5 in. (3–5 mm) long that occur in ant nests, where they feed on an oily secretion produced by the ants. In addition to the true crickets of the family Gryllidae, insects of the family Gryllacrididae are also called crickets. These are the cave, or camel, crickets, found throughout the world in dark, moist places, and the stone, sand, or Jerusalem crickets of W North America, found under stones in sandy soil. Mole crickets (genus Gryllotalpa, family Gryllotalpidae) are nocturnal insects that have strong front legs adapted for digging and burrowing rather than strong hind legs for jumping. They live in moist soil. All crickets belong to the phylum ArthropodaArthropoda
[Gr.,=jointed feet], largest and most diverse animal phylum. The arthropods include crustaceans, insects, centipedes, millipedes, spiders, scorpions, and the extinct trilobites.
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cricket, ball-and-bat game played chiefly in Great Britain and the Commonwealth countries. Basic Rules Cricket is played by two teams of eleven on a level, closely cut oval "pitch" preferably measuring about 525 ft (160 m) by about 550 ft (170 m). Two wickets are placed 66 ft (20.12 m) apart near the middle of the field. A wicket consists of two wooden crosspieces (bails) resting on three wooden stumps 28 in. (71.1 cm) high. At each wicket stands a batsman. If the opposing bowler, delivering the ball from near the opposing wicket, knocks down the bails of the batsman's wicket, the batsman is retired. In delivering the hard, leather-covered ball, the bowler throws overarm but may not bend the arm, and the ball usually approaches the batsman on one bounce. After six bowls to one batsman, an umpire (there is one at each wicket) calls "over," and another bowler begins bowling to the batsman's partner at the opposing wicket. The players in the field shift position according to the batsmen. If the batsman hits the ball with his willow paddle-shaped bat far enough so that both batsmen may run to exchange places, a run is scored. When the ball is hit a long distance (in any direction, since there are no foul lines), up to four exchanges or runs may be made. (If the ball crosses the boundary of the field on the ground, four runs are scored automatically; if it clears the boundary in the air, six are scored.) However, if the opposing team recovers the ball and uses it to knock down the bails of a wicket before the batsman reaches it, the batsman is out. A batsman is also retired if an opposing fielder catches a batted ball on the fly (as in baseballbaseball,
bat-and-ball sport known as the national pastime of the United States. It derives its name from the four bases that form a diamond (the infield) around the pitcher's mound.
..... Click the link for more information. ), or for any of several more technical reasons. An outstanding turn at bat may result in more than 100 runs, a "century." A game usually consists of two innings; in one innings all players on each team bat once in a fixed order (unless a team, having scored what it considers runs adequate to win, chooses to retire without completing its order); a game may take several days to complete. Substitutions are allowed only for serious injury. Origin of Cricket Cricket's origin is obscure. Evidence suggests it was played in England in the 12th–13th cent., and it was popular there by the end of the 17th cent. By the mid-18th cent. the aristocracy had adopted the game. In 1744 the London Cricket Club produced what are recognizably the rules of modern cricket. The Marylebone Cricket Club, one of the oldest (1787) cricket organizations, is the game's international governing body. Principal Modern Matches In Great Britain the principal cricket matches are those between the universities (especially Oxford and Cambridge) and between largely professional teams representing the English counties. Among international, or test, matches (begun 1877), the most famous is that between Australia and Britain for the "Ashes." Since the 1970s the West Indies (a team assembled from several nations), India, Pakistan, and South Africa have challenged English and Australian claims to world dominance. Recent Developments In the early 21st cent., Twenty20, a new version of cricket with a much faster, more compressed format, emerged in India. A typical Twenty20 game lasts about three hours, in contrast to the regular cricket's customary five-day test match. Twenty20 is played by a much younger and fitter group of cricketers, whose vigorous athleticism is also in sharp contrast to the play of the older, traditional players. In 2007, 27 games were played by 12 countries in the first Twenty20 world tournament. Bibliography See Wisden Cricketers' Almanack (1864–); R. Bowen, Cricket (1970); J. Ford, Cricket (1972). CricketA small element with two slopes, in the form of a miniature gable roof, placed behind a chimney that penetrates a sloping roof, to shed water.Cricket a team sport played with a ball and bats. Cricket originated in England, where the game was known in the Middle Ages. Since the 18th century, official competitions have been held between cricket clubs, using rules unchanged to this day. Cricket is played on a grass field (usually 80x60 m), in the center of which two wickets (67.5 cm high and 20 cm wide) are set up 20 m apart. The ball weighs 170.5 grams and is 23 cm in circumference; the oarlike bat is no more than 95 cm long, and its “blade” is 6.5 cm wide. The point of the game is to bowl the ball and hit the opposing team’s wicket; the opponents defend their wicket, returning the ball with their bats. There are 11 men on a team. The game of cricket includes running and “getting players out,” which makes it similar to Russian lapta and American baseball. The game lasts several hours (on agreement between teams). Cricket is popular in Great Britain, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and a number of the African states; national and international matches are held, some of which have become traditions —for example, the teams of Great Britain and Australia have met regularly since the late 19th century. V. A. PRAVDIN cricket[′krik·ət] (building construction) A device that is used to divert water at the intersections of roofs or at the intersection of a roof and chimney. (invertebrate zoology) The common name for members of the insect family Gryllidae. The common name for any of several related species of orthopteran insects in the families Tettigoniidae, Gryllotalpidae, and Tridactylidae. cricket, saddle  cricket A small saddle-shaped projection on a sloping roof; used to divert water around an obstacle such as a chimney.cricketsymbol of summer; weather prognosticator. [Insect Symbolism: Jobes, 382]See: Summercricket11. any insect of the orthopterous family Gryllidae, having long antennae and, in the males, the ability to produce a chirping sound (stridulation) by rubbing together the leathery forewings 2. any of various related insects, such as the mole cricket
cricket2a. a game played by two teams of eleven players on a field with a wicket at either end of a 22-yard pitch, the object being for one side to score runs by hitting a hard leather-covered ball with a bat while the other side tries to dismiss them by bowling, catching, running them out, etc. b. (as modifier): a cricket bat MedicalSeesaddleCRICKET
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Words related to cricketnoun leaping insectRelated Words- orthopteran
- orthopteron
- orthopterous insect
- family Gryllidae
- Gryllidae
- mole cricket
- Acheta domestica
- European house cricket
- Acheta assimilis
- field cricket
- tree cricket
noun a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 playersRelated Words- bowling
- snick
- hat trick
- innings
- field game
- cricket equipment
- stump
- duck's egg
- duck
- over
- maiden over
- maiden
- bowl
verb play cricketRelated Words |