Found 3 items, similar to Cricket.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: cricket
belalang, jangkrik
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: cricket
cricket
n 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
v : play cricket
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Cricket
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.
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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.
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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.
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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.] (Zo["o]l.)
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.
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Note: The common European cricket is
Gryllus domesticus;
the common large black crickets of America are
Gryllus niger
,
Gryllus neglectus, and others.
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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.
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Cricket
\Crick"et\, v. i.
To play at cricket. --Tennyson.
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