Cricket
noun
A game played by two teams of eleven people, where a player tries to hit a ball with a bat and score runs.
We are going to play cricket this afternoon.
Often appears as...
- play cricket
- cricket match
noun
A small jumping insect related to the grasshoppers.
I can hear the sound of crickets at night.
Often appears as...
- cricket sounds
- cricket chirping
noun
A small three-legged stool.
She sat on a wooden cricket in front of the fire.
Often appears as...
- wooden cricket
- sit on a cricket
noun
A structure on a pitched roof that provides a diversion of rainwater.
The cricket on the roof prevents the water from pooling.
Often appears as...
- roof cricket
- cricket structure
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noun
A game played by two teams of eleven people, where a player tries to hit a ball with a bat and score runs.
We are going to play cricket this afternoon.
Often appears as...
- play cricket
- cricket match
noun
A small jumping insect related to the grasshoppers.
I can hear the sound of crickets at night.
Often appears as...
- cricket sounds
- cricket chirping
noun
A small three-legged stool.
She sat on a wooden cricket in front of the fire.
Often appears as...
- wooden cricket
- sit on a cricket
noun
A structure on a pitched roof that provides a diversion of rainwater.
The cricket on the roof prevents the water from pooling.
Often appears as...
- roof cricket
- cricket structure
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Global Sport
Cricket is a sport much like baseball, enjoyed and followed passionately in several countries.
I support the Indian cricket team.
Pro Tip 2/3Long Matches
A single cricket game can last a whole day or even up to five days.
The test cricket match lasted for five days.
Pro Tip 3/3Specialized Terms
Cricket has unique terms like 'bowler', 'pitch', and 'wicket'. Learn these for fuller understanding.
He is the best bowler in our cricket club.
Pro Tip 1/3Global Sport
Cricket is a sport much like baseball, enjoyed and followed passionately in several countries.
I support the Indian cricket team.
Pro Tip 2/3Long Matches
A single cricket game can last a whole day or even up to five days.
The test cricket match lasted for five days.
Pro Tip 3/3Specialized Terms
Cricket has unique terms like 'bowler', 'pitch', and 'wicket'. Learn these for fuller understanding.
He is the best bowler in our cricket club.
Pro Tip 1/3Global Sport
Cricket is a sport much like baseball, enjoyed and followed passionately in several countries.
I support the Indian cricket team.
Pro Tip 2/3Long Matches
A single cricket game can last a whole day or even up to five days.
The test cricket match lasted for five days.
Pro Tip 3/3Specialized Terms
Cricket has unique terms like 'bowler', 'pitch', and 'wicket'. Learn these for fuller understanding.
He is the best bowler in our cricket club.
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Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...
housing and transportation. So in this case, the worm grows up inside the cricket and once it gets a little cramped in there, it wants to come out. And really this worm has a free living part of its life stage. It doesn't live his whole life in the cricket. But the problem is where it comes out,
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Should we eat bugs? -...
Insects can also be turned into more sustainable food for livestock and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills. Feeling hungry yet? Faced with a plate of fried crickets, most people today would still recoil,
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Eli the eel: A...
for most of her life in the stream, eating whatever falls in the grasshoppers, crickets, small fish, insect larvae, frogs, baby birds, almost anything she can get her mouth around. And she will grow quite big, up to four feet long and weighing as much as thirteen pounds.
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The art of the metaphor...
Even as you see that though, some part of you recognizes in the image a small portrait of what it's like to live in this world of change and time, our human fate is to vanish, as surely as that small cricket will, and still, we do what it does. We live, we sing.
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The thrilling potential...
"four runs" in cricket. It comes as a part of our everyday learning. So, I am very interested, from the beginning, how our knowledge about everyday objects and gestures, and how we use these objects, can be leveraged to our interactions with the digital world.
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Giant Swarm of Mormon...
where bands of crickets move how fast why once we've done that we can develop models mathematical models that we can use to then predict for other bands in other parts of the western US you know potentially our ultimate goal is to help
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DJing to the sounds of...
music all over the world and last but not least he has the runic of a hot of a.m. mockingbird singing in the Chesapeake Bay to a nice backdrop of crickets and secatur that high notice is a katydid let's mix things up a little
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The Insect That Freezes...
so reptiles and insects generally fare better in the cold when they're small some species though just can't help but defy convention remember the gargantuan bird eating cricket of the kalahari
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He Spent 40 Years Alone...
billy lives alone in this house he helped build here he grows his garden has an impressive hat collection loves cricket and dreams of bollywood every couple of weeks he skis back into
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Swimming Cricket Bites...
i've ever seen crickets are common around the world but this one is entirely different in mastering this environment using only touch and taste
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Zombie Parasites PIPE Nat...
housing and transportation. So in this case, the worm grows up inside the cricket and once it gets a little cramped in there, it wants to come out. And really this worm has a free living part of its life stage. It doesn't live his whole life in the cricket. But the problem is where it comes out,
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Should we eat bugs? -...
Insects can also be turned into more sustainable food for livestock and can be reared on organic waste, like vegetable peelings, that might otherwise just end up rotting in landfills. Feeling hungry yet? Faced with a plate of fried crickets, most people today would still recoil,
Video examples
Eli the eel: A...
for most of her life in the stream, eating whatever falls in the grasshoppers, crickets, small fish, insect larvae, frogs, baby birds, almost anything she can get her mouth around. And she will grow quite big, up to four feet long and weighing as much as thirteen pounds.
Video examples
The art of the metaphor...
Even as you see that though, some part of you recognizes in the image a small portrait of what it's like to live in this world of change and time, our human fate is to vanish, as surely as that small cricket will, and still, we do what it does. We live, we sing.
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The thrilling potential...
"four runs" in cricket. It comes as a part of our everyday learning. So, I am very interested, from the beginning, how our knowledge about everyday objects and gestures, and how we use these objects, can be leveraged to our interactions with the digital world.
Video examples
Giant Swarm of Mormon...
where bands of crickets move how fast why once we've done that we can develop models mathematical models that we can use to then predict for other bands in other parts of the western US you know potentially our ultimate goal is to help
Video examples
DJing to the sounds of...
music all over the world and last but not least he has the runic of a hot of a.m. mockingbird singing in the Chesapeake Bay to a nice backdrop of crickets and secatur that high notice is a katydid let's mix things up a little
Video examples
The Insect That Freezes...
so reptiles and insects generally fare better in the cold when they're small some species though just can't help but defy convention remember the gargantuan bird eating cricket of the kalahari
Video examples
He Spent 40 Years Alone...
billy lives alone in this house he helped build here he grows his garden has an impressive hat collection loves cricket and dreams of bollywood every couple of weeks he skis back into
Video examples
Swimming Cricket Bites...
i've ever seen crickets are common around the world but this one is entirely different in mastering this environment using only touch and taste
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Jonathan Agnew
English Entertainer
Test cricket is about respecting the opposition, the conditions and the circumstances.
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Sarfaraz Ahmed
Pakistani Cricketer
Pakistani people love cricket, they love to support and they love the players.
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Stuart Broad
English Athlete
That's one of the good things about cricket, the friendships around the game.
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Shikhar Dhawan
Indian Athlete
An all-rounder in Tests and limited-overs' cricket is equally important.
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Shibani Dandekar
Indian Musician
I was raised in Australia, so cricket wasn't a new subject to me.
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Kapil Dev
Indian Athlete
I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.
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Andrew Flintoff
English Entertainer
We always gave one-day cricket respect as players, definitely.
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Inzamam-ul-Haq
Pakistani Coach
Adjusting to life without cricket hasn't been very tough.
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Aishwarya Rajesh
Indian Actress
It's an honour to play a woman cricketer on screen.
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Shahid Afridi
Pakistani Athlete
I have said goodbye to international cricket.
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Jonathan Agnew
English Entertainer
Test cricket is about respecting the opposition, the conditions and the circumstances.
Quote examples
Sarfaraz Ahmed
Pakistani Cricketer
Pakistani people love cricket, they love to support and they love the players.
Quote examples
Stuart Broad
English Athlete
That's one of the good things about cricket, the friendships around the game.
Quote examples
Shikhar Dhawan
Indian Athlete
An all-rounder in Tests and limited-overs' cricket is equally important.
Quote examples
Shibani Dandekar
Indian Musician
I was raised in Australia, so cricket wasn't a new subject to me.
Quote examples
Kapil Dev
Indian Athlete
I never said, 'I wouldn't help a cricketer if he approaches me.
Quote examples
Andrew Flintoff
English Entertainer
We always gave one-day cricket respect as players, definitely.
Quote examples
Inzamam-ul-Haq
Pakistani Coach
Adjusting to life without cricket hasn't been very tough.
Quote examples
Aishwarya Rajesh
Indian Actress
It's an honour to play a woman cricketer on screen.
Quote examples
Shahid Afridi
Pakistani Athlete
I have said goodbye to international cricket.
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