cell vs cricket

cell

noun
  • The space between the ribs of a vaulted roof. 

  • A three-dimensional facet of a polytope. 

  • Each of the small hexagonal compartments in a honeycomb. 

  • A small monastery or nunnery dependent on a larger religious establishment. 

  • A small room in a monastery or nunnery accommodating one person. 

  • The basic unit of a living organism, consisting of a quantity of protoplasm surrounded by a cell membrane, which is able to synthesize proteins and replicate itself. 

  • The minimal unit of a cellular automaton that can change state and has an associated behavior. 

  • A cella. 

  • An area of an insect wing bounded by veins. 

  • A room in a prison or jail for one or more inmates. 

  • A device which stores electrical power; used either singly or together in batteries; the basic unit of a battery. 

  • A small thunderstorm, caused by convection, that forms ahead of a storm front. 

  • A section or compartment of a larger structure. 

  • A small group of people forming part of a larger organization, often an outlawed one. 

  • A single-room dwelling for a hermit. 

  • The unit in a statistical array (a spreadsheet, for example) where a row and a column intersect. 

  • A cellular phone. 

  • In FreeCell-type games, a space where one card can be placed. 

  • The discal cell of the wing of a lepidopteran insect. 

  • A short, fixed-length packet, as in asynchronous transfer mode. 

  • Any of various chambers in a tissue or organism having specific functions. 

  • A region of radio reception that is a part of a larger radio network. 

verb
  • To place or enclose in a cell. 

cricket

noun
  • 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. 

  • 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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