convert vs cricket

convert

noun
  • The equivalent of a conversion in rugby 

  • A person who has converted to a religion. 

  • A person who is now in favour of something that he or she previously opposed or disliked. 

verb
  • To express (a quantity) in alternative units. 

  • To change (something) from one use, function, or purpose to another. 

  • To score extra points after (a try) by completing a conversion. 

  • To appropriate wrongfully or unlawfully; to commit the common law tort of conversion. 

  • To induce (someone) to adopt a particular religion, faith, ideology or belief (see also sense 11). 

  • To score a spare. 

  • To perform the action that an online advertisement is intended to induce; to reach the point of conversion. 

  • To undergo a conversion of religion, faith or belief (see also sense 3). 

  • To transform a material or positional advantage into a win. 

  • To become converted. 

  • To score (especially a penalty kick). 

  • To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second. 

  • To express (a unit of measurement) in terms of another; to furnish a mathematical formula by which a quantity, expressed in the former unit, may be given in the latter. 

  • To increase one's individual score, especially from 50 runs (a fifty) to 100 runs (a century), or from a century to a double or triple century. 

  • To transform or change (something) into another form, substance, state, or product. 

  • To exchange for something of equal value. 

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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