card vs cricket

card

noun
  • A tabular presentation of the key statistics of an innings or match: batsmen’s scores and how they were dismissed, extras, total score and bowling figures. 

  • A removable electronic device that may be inserted into a powered electronic device to provide additional capability. 

  • An indicator card. 

  • A hand-held tool formed similarly to a hairbrush but with bristles of wire or other rigid material. It is used principally with raw cotton, wool, hair, or other natural fibers to prepare these materials for spinning into yarn or thread on a spinning wheel, with a whorl or other hand-held spindle. The card serves to untangle, clean, remove debris from, and lay the fibers straight. 

  • A list of scheduled events or of performers or contestants; chiefly used in professional wrestling. 

  • A roll or sliver of fibre (as of wool) delivered from a carding machine. 

  • A greeting card. 

  • A playing card. 

  • Any flat, normally rectangular piece of stiff paper, plastic, etc. 

  • Any game using playing cards; a card game. 

  • A perforated pasteboard or sheet-metal plate for warp threads, making part of the Jacquard apparatus of a loom. 

  • A business card. 

  • A title card or intertitle: a piece of filmed, printed text edited into the midst of the photographed action at various points, generally to convey character dialogue or descriptive narrative material related to the plot. 

  • A test card. 

  • A paper on which the points of the compass are marked; the dial or face of the mariner's compass. 

  • An amusing or entertaining person, often slightly eccentric. 

  • A resource or argument, used to achieve a purpose. 

verb
  • To comb with a card; to cleanse or disentangle by carding. 

  • To make (a stated score), as recorded on a scoring card. 

  • To check IDs, especially against a minimum age requirement. 

  • To use a carding device to disentangle the fibres of wool prior to spinning. 

  • To scrape or tear someone’s flesh using a metal comb, as a form of torture. 

cricket

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

  • 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. 

  • 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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