'Cricket' definitions:
Definition of 'cricket'
From: WordNet
noun
Leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
noun
A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
verb
Play cricket
Definition of 'Cricket'
From: GCIDE
- Cricket \Crick"et\, v. i. To play at cricket. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cricket'
From: GCIDE
- Cricket \Crick"et\ (kr?k"?t), n. [OE. criket, OF. crequet, criquet; prob. of German origin, and akin to E. creak; cf. D. kriek a cricket. See Creak.] (Zool.) An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings. [1913 Webster]
- Note: The common European cricket is Gryllus domesticus; the common large black crickets of America are {Gryllus niger}, Gryllus neglectus, and others. [1913 Webster]
- Balm cricket. See under Balm.
- Cricket bird, a small European bird (Silvia locustella); -- called also grasshopper warbler.
- Cricket frog, a small American tree frog (Acris gryllus); -- so called from its chirping. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cricket'
From: GCIDE
- Cricket \Crick"et\, n. [AS. cricc, crycc, crooked staff, crutch. Perh. first used in sense 1, a stool probably having been first used as a wicket. See Crutch.]
- 1. A low stool. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Arch.) A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cricket'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Klaxon,
- 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
Cricket, NC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in North Carolina
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Cricket, NC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in North Carolina
Population (2000) :
2053
Housing Units (2000) :
951
Land area (2000) :
3.989066 sq. miles (10.331632 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
3.989066 sq. miles (10.331632 sq. km)
FIPS code :
15440
Located within :
North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location :
36.162968 N, 81.183077 W
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Words containing 'Cricket'
- Cricketer,
- not cricket,
- Balm cricket,
- Cricket bird,
- Cricket frog,
- Cricket, NC,
- Fan cricket,
- Fen cricket,
- Field cricket,
- Mole cricket,
- Sand cricket,
- Tree cricket,
- White cricket,
- Wood cricket,
- cricket ball,
- cricket bat,
- cricket equipment,
- cricket match,
- cricket teal,
- jerusalem cricket,
- mormon cricket,
- eastern cricket frog,
- european house cricket,
- northern cricket frog,
- snowy tree cricket,
- cricket-bat willow