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CRICKET
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("cricket" is a kind of...):
field game (an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions)
Meronyms (parts of "cricket"):
snick (a glancing contact with the ball off the edge of the cricket bat)
innings (the batting turn of a cricket player or team)
Domain member category:
round-arm (with the arm swung round at shoulder height)
bowl (hurl a cricket ball from one end of the pitch towards the batsman at the other end)
snick (hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat)
maiden; maiden over ((cricket) an over in which no runs are scored)
over ((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 pitch)
duck; duck's egg ((cricket) a score of nothing by a batsman)
stump ((cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket)
cricket equipment (sports equipment used in playing cricket)
hat trick ((sports) three consecutive scores by one player or three scores in one game (as in cricket or ice hockey etc.))
bowling ((cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman)
Derivation:
cricket (play cricket)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cricket" is a kind of...):
orthopteran; orthopteron; orthopterous insect (any of various insects having leathery forewings and membranous hind wings and chewing mouthparts)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cricket"):
mole cricket (digs in moist soil and feeds on plant roots)
Acheta domestica; European house cricket (lives in human dwellings; naturalized in parts of America)
Acheta assimilis; field cricket (common American black cricket; attacks crops and also enters dwellings)
tree cricket (pale arboreal American cricket noted for loud stridulation)
Holonyms ("cricket" is a member of...):
family Gryllidae; Gryllidae (crickets)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Play cricket
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Hypernyms (to "cricket" is one way to...):
play (participate in games or sport)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
cricket (a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs)
cricketer (an athlete who plays cricket)
Context examples:
"Well, I like to hear about cricket and boating and hunting," said Frank, who had not yet learned to suit his amusements to his strength.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
And he looked up and laughed outright, for Jo's prim manner was rather funny when he remembered how they had chatted about cricket when he brought the cat home.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
"And yet your life is very different from the one you pictured so long ago. Do you remember our castles in the air?" asked Amy, smiling as she watched Laurie and John playing cricket with the boys.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
But that evening Jo fancied that Beth's eyes rested on the lively, dark face beside her with peculiar pleasure, and that she listened with intense interest to an account of some exciting cricket match, though the phrases, 'caught off a tice', 'stumped off his ground', and 'the leg hit for three', were as intelligible to her as Sanskrit.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Amy chirped like a cricket, and Jo wandered through the airs at her own sweet will, always coming out at the wrong place with a croak or a quaver that spoiled the most pensive tune.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A grove of pines covered one part of it, and from the heart of this green spot came a clearer sound than the soft sigh of the pines or the drowsy chirp of the crickets.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Our cat ran away once, and he brought her back, and we talked over the fence, and were getting on capitally, all about cricket, and so on, when he saw Meg coming, and walked off.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
There was a sort of poetic justice about it, after all, for the old lady had been the terror of the boys for miles around, and now the exiles feasted freely on forbidden plums, kicked up the gravel with profane boots unreproved, and played cricket in the big field where the irritable 'cow with a crumpled horn' used to invite rash youths to come and be tossed.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties and the clear voices of girls, already gathered like crickets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
