cricket vs due

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. 

due

noun
  • Deserved acknowledgment. 

  • That which is owed; debt; that which belongs or may be claimed as a right; whatever custom, law, or morality requires to be done, duty. 

  • Right; just title or claim. 

  • A membership fee. 

adj
  • Appropriate. 

  • Owing; ascribable, as to a cause. 

  • Owed or owing. 

  • Scheduled; expected. 

  • On a direct bearing, especially for the four points of the compass 

  • Having reached the expected, scheduled, or natural time. 

adv
  • Directly; exactly. 

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