CRICKET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cricket mean? 

• CRICKET (noun)
  The noun CRICKET has 2 senses:

1. leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together

2. a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs

  Familiarity information: CRICKET used as a noun is rare.

• CRICKET (verb)
  The verb CRICKET has 1 sense:

1. play cricket

  Familiarity information: CRICKET used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRICKET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

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)

Sense 2

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:

snick (hit a glancing blow with the edge of the bat)

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)

bowling ((cricket) the act of delivering a cricket ball to the batsman)

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.))

Derivation:

cricket (play cricket)

• CRICKET (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 

"Yes, Jo, I think your harvest will be a good one," began Mrs. March, frightening away a big black cricket that was staring Teddy out of countenance.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The shrill little whistle, like the chirping of a cricket amid the cries of great beasts, shot through the fog from more to the side and swiftly grew faint and fainter.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

She was fond of all boy's plays, and greatly preferred cricket not merely to dolls, but to the more heroic enjoyments of infancy, nursing a dormouse, feeding a canary-bird, or watering a rose-bush.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Crickets sang in the nights, and in the days all manner of creeping, crawling things rustled forth into the sun.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

We had no ricochet to fear, and though one popped in through the roof of the log-house and out again through the floor, we soon got used to that sort of horse-play and minded it no more than cricket.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The lower of the three is Gilchrist, a fine scholar and athlete, plays in the Rugby team and the cricket team for the college, and got his Blue for the hurdles and the long jump.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Don't mind me. I'm happy as a cricket here," answered Jo.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Morland was a very good woman, and wished to see her children everything they ought to be; but her time was so much occupied in lying-in and teaching the little ones, that her elder daughters were inevitably left to shift for themselves; and it was not very wonderful that Catherine, who had by nature nothing heroic about her, should prefer cricket, baseball, riding on horseback, and running about the country at the age of fourteen, to books—or at least books of information—for, provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

After a minute's silence, he looked down at Amy, who sat on the cricket at his feet, and said, with a caress of the shining hair...

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Grasshoppers skipped briskly in the sere grass, and crickets chirped like fairy pipers at a feast.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)