brass vs cricket

brass

noun
  • A brave or foolhardy attitude; impudence. 

  • Fittings, utensils, or other items made of brass 

  • A metallic alloy of copper and zinc used in many industrial and plumbing applications. 

  • A memorial or sepulchral tablet usually made of brass or latten 

  • A class of wind instruments, usually made of metal (such as brass), that use vibrations of the player's lips to produce sound; the section of an orchestra that features such instruments 

  • The colour of brass. 

  • A brass nail; a prostitute. 

  • Spent shell casings (usually made of brass); the part of the cartridge left over after bullets have been fired. 

  • Inferior composition. 

  • High-ranking officers. 

adj
  • Made of brass, of or pertaining to brass. 

  • Bad, annoying; as wordplay applied especially to brass instruments. 

  • Of the colour of brass. 

  • Impertinent, bold: brazen. 

  • Of inferior composition. 

  • Brass monkey; cold. 

verb
  • To coat with brass. 

cricket

noun
  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • A relatively small area of a roof constructed to divert water from a horizontal intersection of the roof with a chimney, wall, expansion joint, or other projection. 

  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions. 

  • A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts). 

  • An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. 

  • A wooden footstool. 

  • An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs. 

  • A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. 

  • In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

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