(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.
Eleven
Definition:
(a.) Ten and one added; as, eleven men.
(n.) The sum of ten and one; eleven units or objects.
(n.) A symbol representing eleven units, as 11 or xi.
(n.) The eleven men selected to play on one side in a match, as the representatives of a club or a locality; as, the all-England eleven.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the oestrogen amplification test in eleven of the non-hyperprolactinaemic anovular patients were compared with the ovulatory response to 100 mg clomiphene given for 5 days.
(2) Eleven virus strains were isolated from ticks Hyalomma asiaticum asiaticum Schulce et Schlottke, 1929, and Hyalomma plumbeum plumbeum Panzer, 1796,collected in 1971-1974 in desert regions of the Uzbee S.S.R.
(3) Two hundred eleven adult emergency hand patients were prospectively tested over a 1-year period for drug and alcohol use.
(4) Eleven had hematological disorders, and 12 received steroids (sometimes with immunosuppressive or cytotoxic drugs).
(5) We performed a combined one-stage approach for the treatment of eighteen spastic subluxated or dislocated hips in eleven children who had cerebral palsy.
(6) Eleven per cent of the courses that responded provided no formal substance misuse training.
(7) Eleven (39%) had positive scans despite normal epicardial coronary arteries (7 patients) or a pretest risk of coronary disease less than or equal to 5% (4 patients).
(8) Eleven patients spontaneously passed the calculus, ten prior to delivery and one patient postpartum.
(9) Eleven tumors (23%) exhibited definite regression in the form of one or more segmental areas (defects) where the invasive component was replaced by mononuclear cell infiltrate and fibrosis.
(10) Eleven men with a less than 3% probability of coronary artery disease were used as a control population.
(11) Orthogonal field electrophoresis of the eleven strains still carrying pBR322 sequences revealed at least seven different integrating sites for the transforming DNA.
(12) Eleven rats were given twice-daily intraperitoneal injections of 20 mL of dialysis fluid containing 4.5% glucose for 6 weeks.
(13) Central nervous system toxoplasmosis was diagnosed in 12 immunosuppressed patients, eleven of whom had AIDS.
(14) Eleven women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, with 20 listed as critically ill, after a state-run mass sterilisation campaign went horribly wrong.
(15) Eleven patients above the regression line had thrombosis in excess of fibrinolysis but the remaining 26 patients under the regression line had fibrinolysis in excess of thrombosis.
(16) Eleven effusions met one or more of three criteria commonly used to identify exudative effusions.
(17) Eleven patients had undergone replacement surgery in the knee joint area.
(18) Eleven months later and staff are still waiting to find out when – or if – the station will close and what exactly will replace it.
(19) Eleven were treated prior to clinical recurrence with 100% local control, no serious complications, and 86% long-term survival.
(20) A line in which 5-30% of the cells were lysable by anti-H-2Dd was cloned; all eleven clones had H-2Dd (13-69% lysable) demonstrating that H-2 modulates in vitro.