英语词汇“bowling crease”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

bowl² /bōl/

noun

A heavy wooden ball with a bias (qv)

(in pl, treated as sing) a game played by rolling such balls on a green towards a jack

(in pl, treated as sing) sometimes the game of skittles (ninepins) or American bowls (tenpins)

A ball (obsolete)

(Scot bool) a marble

(in pl, treated as sing) the game of marbles

intransitive verb

To play at ninepin or tenpin bowling

To roll or trundle (esp with on or along)

To travel swiftly and smoothly in a wheeled vehicle (usu with along)

To deliver a ball to the batsman at the wicket (cricket)

To take one's turn at bowling

transitive verb

To roll or trundle

To deliver (a ball) to the batsman (cricket)

To dismiss (a batsman) by hitting the wicket with a bowled ball (also with out)

ORIGIN: Fr boule ball, from L bulla

bowled adjective (cricket)

Dismissed (by having one's wicket hit) when a specified person was the bowler

bowlˈer noun

A person who plays at bowls or bowling, or who bowls in cricket

bowlˈing noun and adjective

bowling alley noun

A long narrow covered place for ninepin or tenpin bowling

A building where tenpin bowling is played

bowling crease see under crease¹

bowling green noun

A smooth grassy plot for bowls

bowl over

To knock down
To overwhelm, thoroughly impress or delight (informal)

crease¹ /krēs/

noun

A mark made by folding, pressing or crumpling
Such a mark pressed centrally and longitudinally into a trouser-leg
A wrinkle or line on the face
Any of the lines that regulate the positions of batsman and bowler at the wicket in cricket (see also bowling crease, popping crease and return crease below)
(in ice-hockey and lacrosse) a marked area round the goal

transitive verb

To make a crease or creases in
To graze with a bullet, sometimes used as a method of temporarily disabling rather than killing (an animal)

intransitive verb

To become creased

transitive verb and intransitive verb (informal)

To double up with laughter (often with up)

ORIGIN: Origin uncertain

creasˈer noun

creasˈy adjective

Full of creases
Liable or tending to crease

creaseˈ-resistant or creaseˈ-resisting adjective

(of a fabric) not becoming creased in normal wear

bowling crease (cricket)

A line marked perpendicularly across the pitch at the level of the wicket, from astride which the bowler must bowl

popping crease (cricket)

A line marked perpendicularly across the pitch four feet in front of the bowling crease, at which the batsman plays and behind which he or she must have a foot or bat in order not to be run out or stumped

return crease (cricket)

A line marked at right angles to the bowling crease and popping crease on either side of the wicket, inside which the bowler must bowl the ball

bowl2 /bōl/

crease1 /krēs/

bowl² /bōl/

crease¹ /krēs/