Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - cricket
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Cricket
cricket
(crickets) Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Cricket is an outdoor game played between two teams. Players try to score points, called runs, by hitting a ball with a wooden bat. During the summer term we would play cricket at the village ground. ...the Yorkshire County Cricket Club. N-UNCOUNT 2. A cricket is a small jumping insect that produces short, loud sounds by rubbing its wings together. N-COUNT
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I. noun Etymology: Middle English criket, from Anglo-French, of limitative origin Date: 14th century 1. any of a family (Gryllidae) of leaping orthopteran insects noted for the chirping notes produced by the male by rubbing together specially modified parts of the forewings 2. a low wooden footstool 3. a small metal toy or signaling device that makes a sharp click or snap when pressed II. noun Etymology: Middle French criquet goal stake in a bowling game Date: 1598 1. a game played with a ball and bat by two sides of usually 11 players each on a large field centering upon two wickets each defended by a batsman 2. fair and honorable behavior it wasn't ~ for her to break her contract — Gerry Nadel III. intransitive verb Date: circa 1809 to play the game of ~ • ~er noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. n. & v. --n. a game played on a grass pitch with two teams of 11 players taking turns to bowl at a wicket defended by a batting player of the other team. --v.intr. (cricketed, cricketing) play cricket. Phrases and idioms cricket-bag a long bag used for carrying a cricketer's bat etc. not cricket Brit. colloq. underhand or unfair behaviour. Derivatives cricketer n. Etymology: 16th c.: orig. uncert. 2. n. any of various grasshopper-like insects of the order Orthoptera, the males of which produce a characteristic chirping sound. Etymology: ME f. OF criquet f. criquer creak etc. (imit.) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1) сверчок; pl сверчки (Gryllidae) 2) прямокрылые насекомые с укороченными надкрыльями или бескрылые – African mole cricket – ant-loving crickets – black cricket – black-horned tree cricket – bush cricket – camel crickets – European field cricket – European house cricket – European tree cricket – field cricket – flower cricket – garbage cricket – greenhouse stone cricket – grylloid crickets – house cricket – larger brown bush crickets – larger field cricket – mole cricket – plant crickets – pygmy mole crickets – pygmy sand cricket – scaly crickets – snowy tree cricket – southern mole cricket – sword-bearing crickets – tree cricket – true crickets – two-spotted cricket – wart-biter bush cricket – water cricket – wingless bush crickets – wood cricket ...Англо-русский Русско-английский биологический словарь
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1. энт. сверчок (Grillus spp.) Id: as cheerful as a cricket —- живой, жизнерадостный 2. спорт. крикет 3. разг. честная игра his behaviour was not cricket —- он поступил неэтично not cricket! —- не по правилам!; нечестно! 4. играть в крикет ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I noun сверчок - lively as a cricket - merry as a cricket II sport 1. noun крикет it is not cricket coll. - не по правилам; нечестно, низко 2. v. играть в крикет III noun dial. низкий стул или табурет; скамеечка для ног ...Англо-русский словарь
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