(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.
Footstool
Definition:
(n.) A low stool to support the feet of one when sitting.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ricky Gervais leans back in his chair, puts his feet up on a padded footstool.
(2) We will not be shopping at JL in the future which is a pity since we have long been faithful and loyal customers.” JP’s saga of the faulty footstools just went on and on.
(3) He has confirmed that he intends to join the body, but has not said whether he will kneel on a footstool or kiss the Queen’s hand as part of the process.
(4) Photograph: Murdo MacLeod Compared with the prime-time slots occupied by Letterman, Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel, which command greater ratings and resources, Corden’s throne is more a footstool.
(5) I have now received three faulty footstools from John Lewis since September and too many email exchanges and phone calls, dismantling and reassembling footstools, taking pictures of damaged footstools, waiting for footstools to be collected that are never collected.
(6) The examination is performed with the patient sitting on a radiolucent chair with the feet high on a footstool, in order to avoid the superimposition of the femoral heads in the lateral projection.
(7) Inside, amid the brightly coloured footstools and half-eaten packets of chocolate biscuits, there are 59 members of staff.
(8) The Labour leader has confirmed that he intends to join the body, but has not said whether he will kneel on a footstool or kiss the Queen’s hand as part of the process.
(9) Next week: a Leicestershire nurse gets a new footstool.
(10) I watched two films, I don’t know.’” Today he wears a tight T-shirt and jeans, looks fit and healthy, though his back’s a bit dicky (hence the footstool).