(n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
(n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.
Example Sentences:
(1) It was highest in men, and there was no difference between elite and recreational badminton players; 92% of the injured were playing with their injury.
(2) Many contributors had planned to attend the Badminton Horse Trials which have been cancelled for the first time since 1987 due to severe flooding.
(3) Mother, all I regret is that those people moved before we got our badminton set.
(4) Twelve expert and 15 novice badminton players viewed a film task which attempted to simulate the perceptual display of the sport of badminton.
(5) Another message that she retweeted – from Malaysia's badminton world champion, Lee Chong Wei – expressed the bewilderment so many felt: "I don't think we are ready to accept this so soon after the #MH370 tragedy."
(6) The mean VC of the basketball, boxing, cricket, football, hockey and the table tennis groups, the mean MVV of all the groups except the athletic, badminton and football groups, and the mean FEV 1.0 of football, hockey, swimming and volleyball groups were significantly higher than those of the sedentary group.
(7) Table tennis, like tennis, squash and badminton, is a racket sport.
(8) Deng, who was head of her school's athletic association and excelled at basketball and badminton, burst on to the US social scene after meeting Murdoch at a company party in Hong Kong.
(9) The prevalence of shoulder pain ranked highest among volley ball players (N = 28) followed by swimmers (N = 22), while badminton, basketball and tennis participants were equally affected (N = 10).
(10) However, although 18 sports had their investment increased, swimming and badminton had theirs cut.
(11) Hugh Thomas, the event director, issued a statement, which read: "The recent exceptional rainfall has left the ground at Badminton totally waterlogged and partially flooded.
(12) When VO2max was expressed in ml.kg-1.min-1, the long-distance runners registered the highest mean value (43.0), which was significantly higher than that of basketballers (34.9), handball players (36.2), badminton players (34.4), and swimmers (36.0).
(13) For this measurement, the sprinters (40.0), pentathletes (40.3), javelin throwers (40.0), and jumpers (39.4) did not differ significantly with each other, but each of the groups was significantly superior to basketballers, handballers, badminton players, and swimmers.
(14) Very sadly, therefore, the 2012 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials has been cancelled."
(15) "I was thinking of getting everyone to wear Bryan Ferry masks and then I'll dress up as the Jelly Fox and challenge them to a mass game of badminton.
(16) A Badminton Injury Questionnaire (BIQ) was developed to survey the type and frequency of injuries that are likely to occur from playing competitive badminton.
(17) The badminton injury pattern overlapped the others.
(18) Clubs for golf, fishing, hockey, badminton, land yachting and skiing on a dry slope were stopped from using the barracks to make way for the Libyans, allowing an estimated £1m worth of facilities to lie unused.
(19) The results also apply, in principle, to badminton and squash racquets, and to golf clubs.
(20) When the badminton or swimming association hasn’t got its money, it’s Kwesi Nyantatkyi … It’s ridiculous … Kwesi Nyantakyi must be crucified by all means.” • Most resilient: Zimbabwe FA head Cuthbert Dube - denying wrongdoing and demanding a £650,000 payout after officials deposed him and his board.
Cricket
Definition:
(n.) 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.
(n.) A low stool.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
(v. i.) To play at cricket.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pekka Isosomppi Press counsellor, Finnish embassy, London • It may have been said tongue in cheek, but I must correct Michael Booth on one thing – his claim that no one talks about cricket in Denmark .
(2) Betfair says Dixon is one of a new set of "ambassadors" including rugby's Will Greenwood, racing's Paul Nicholls and cricket's Michael Vaughan.
(3) Adult crickets have stereotyped patterns of motor output which are generated by the central nervous system, and which serve as a standard against which emerging nymphal patterns can be measured.
(4) Therefore, in the cricket cercal sensory system, both regeneration of the central synapses following axotomy of the presynaptic sensory neurons and the normal rearrangement of connectivity during larval development appear not to require axonal action potentials.
(5) He was never an intellectual; at Oxford, he did no work, and was proudest of playing squash and cricket for the university, though against Cambridge at Lord's he failed to take a wicket and made a duck.
(6) Effects of this lead exposure on cricket predation by the same HET mice also were observed.
(7) Among the thousands of candidates – whose nominations will be have to be put forward to the election commission in coming weeks – are expected to be Bollywood film stars, cricket players, serving parliamentarians accused of rape and murder, as well dozens of larger-than-life regional leaders.
(8) "I'm led to believe that Notts County used to play their home games at Trent Bridge, The Oval hosted an FA Cup final and Bramall Lane used to be a cricket ground, but are there any other cricket grounds that have hosted either league or international football matches?"
(9) During cricket movement, the chameleon locked both eyes straight forward in their orbits and followed the cricket movement with a visually guided head movement.
(10) Andrew Strauss accepted the award for team of the year on behalf of the England cricket team while a moving tribute to Seve Ballesteros - presented the lifetime achievement award by José María Olazábal - was streamed live from Spain.
(11) And, yes, one MEP’s pre-political career is listed as “county cricketer”.
(12) The ultrasound-induced negative phonotactic response of tethered, flying Australian field crickets habituates to repeated stimuli.
(13) "The cricketers are very strong in Britain, the footballers are great athletes.
(14) "Lunch was great, cricket was nice, it was a very English scene.
(15) Four cases of significant ocular trauma in indoor cricketers are reported.
(16) "I saw Hutton in his prime; another time, another time," as his couplet about his cricketing hero, Sir Leonard Hutton, has it.
(17) Application of juvenile hormone analogue (ZR-515) prevented the effect of benserazid on the gonads of the crickets.
(18) What he liked best was to talk to the cricket pro, Bert Wensley, formerly of Sussex, about such heroes as Maurice Tate, Duleepsinhji and HT Bartlett, and to encourage Bert to enlarge on his reasons for describing Sir Home Gordon, Bart, the overlord of Sussex cricket, as a "shit" - the first time we heard that word.
(19) In the presence of 0.02 M streptomycin, all of the polysomes precipitate from male cricket (Acheta domesticus) accessory gland and chick embryonic tissue post-mitochondrial fractions.
(20) "I wear orange tinted glasses for cricket which help reduce glare and also seem to enhance the ball in slightly less than impressive light.