cricket vs hopper

cricket

noun
  • 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 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. 

  • 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. 

hopper

noun
  • A grasshopper or locust, especially 

  • A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically. 

  • A bin or device that feeds material into a machine. 

  • A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast. 

  • A toilet. 

  • A leafhopper. 

  • A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped. 

  • The larva of a cheese fly. 

  • An escapement lever in a piano. 

  • An artificial fishing lure. 

  • A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes. 

  • One who or that which hops. 

  • Any of various hesperiid butterflies. 

  • A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece. 

  • A person or machine that picks hops. 

  • A hopper car. 

  • The immature form of a locust. 

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