cricket vs fuzz

cricket

noun
  • An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore. 

  • 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). 

  • 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. 

fuzz

noun
  • A distorted sound, especially from an electric guitar or other amplified instrument. 

  • Quality of an image that is unclear; a blurred image. 

  • The police, or any law enforcement agency. 

  • A state of befuddlement. 

  • The random data used in fuzz testing. 

  • A frizzy mass of hair or fibre. 

verb
  • To make fuzzy. 

  • To become fuzzy. 

  • To test a software component by running it on randomly generated input. 

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