broad vs cricket

broad

noun
  • A lathe tool for turning down the insides and bottoms of cylinders. 

  • A British gold coin worth 20 shillings, issued by the Commonwealth of England in 1656. 

  • A shallow lake, one of a number of bodies of water in eastern Norfolk and Suffolk. 

  • A kind of floodlight. 

adj
  • General rather than specific. 

  • Extended, in the sense of diffused; open; clear; full. 

  • Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. 

  • Having a large measure of any thing or quality; unlimited; unrestrained. 

  • Unsubtle; obvious. 

  • Plain; evident. 

  • Free; unrestrained; unconfined. 

  • Strongly regional. 

  • Wide in extent or scope. 

  • Velarized, i.e. not palatalized. 

cricket

noun
  • A wooden footstool. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

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

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

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