cricket
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping…An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
» Tom is an excellent cricket player.
Tom ist ein hervorragender Kricketspieler.
Том — отличный игрок в крикет.
Том — добрий гравець у крикет.
Meaning
9 sensesAn insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
Grille
сверчо́кsverčók
цвірку́нcvirkún
leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
(US, humorous, in the plural, slang)In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
(slang)An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
(uncountable)A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
Cricket, Kricket
кри́кетkríket
кри́кетkrýket
a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
(UK, uncountable)An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
(uncountable)A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
(dialectal)A wooden footstool.
A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection.
Examples
87 sentencesTom is an excellent cricket player.
Том — добрий гравець у крикет.
ruТом — отличный игрок в крикет.
deTom ist ein hervorragender Kricketspieler.
I don't know anything about cricket.
Я нічого не знаю про крікет.
ruЯ ничего не понимаю в крикете.
Baseball is different from cricket.
Бейсбол відрізняється від крікету.
ruБейсбол отличается от крикета.
deBaseball ist anders als Cricket.
My uncle is an amateur cricket player.
deMein Onkel spielt hobbymäßig Kricket.
Some people think that it's bad luck to kill a cricket.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -etFrom Middle English creket, crykett, crykette, from Old French criket (with diminutive -et) from criquer (“to make a cracking sound; creak”), from Middle Dutch kricken (“to creak; crack”), from Proto-West Germanic *krakōn, related to Middle English creken, criken (“to creak”), all ultimately of imitative origin.
Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met de krik ketsen (“to chase a ball with a curved stick”).
The etymology is unknown. A few similar words exist in Germanic languages, such as Norwegian krakk (“stool”).
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