Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Wiktionary - Recent changes [en]: cricket

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* Marathi: {{t+|mr|क्रिकेट|tr=krikeṭ|sc=Deva}}

  

* Marathi: {{t+|mr|क्रिकेट|tr=krikeṭ|sc=Deva}}
 

* Norwegian: {{t-|no|cricket|m}}

  

* Norwegian: {{t-|no|cricket|m}}
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* Oriya: {{t|or|କ୍ରିକେଟ|sc=Orya}}
 

* Persian: {{t+|fa|کریکت|tr=kriket}}

  

* Persian: {{t+|fa|کریکت|tr=kriket}}
 

* Polish: {{t+|pl|krykiet|m}}

  

* Polish: {{t+|pl|krykiet|m}}

Latest revision as of 02:10, 17 April 2013

Contents

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old French criquet, from criquer ("to make a cracking sound").

[edit] Noun

cricket (plural crickets)

  1. 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.
  2. A wooden footstool.
  3. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions
  4. 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.
  5. (US slang, in the plural) Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations

insect

[edit] Etymology 2

Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch met 'with' de 'the' krik ketsen 'to ricochet', i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".[1]

Wikipedia-logo.png Cricket on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

[edit] Noun

cricket (uncountable)

  1. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
  2. (chiefly UK) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
    That player's foul wasn't cricket!
[edit] Usage notes

The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is always used in negative constructions and is not restricted to sports usage.

  • (An act that is unfair or unsportsmanlike): not cricket
[edit] Translations

game

fair and sportsmanlike act

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[edit] See also

[edit] Verb

cricket (third-person singular simple present crickets, present participle cricketing, simple past and past participle cricketed)

  1. (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
[edit] Translations

[edit] Noun

cricket n (uncountable)

  1. cricket (sport)

[edit] French

[edit] Pronunciation

[edit] Noun

cricket m

  1. cricket (sport)

[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

cricket m

  1. cricket (sport)

[edit] Swedish

[edit] Alternative forms

[edit] Noun

cricket c (uncountable)

  1. cricket (sport)

[edit] Declension

Declension of cricket

uncountable uncountable
Common indefinite definite
nominative cricket cricketen
genitive crickets cricketens

[edit] Derived terms
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