cricket vs length

cricket

noun
  • A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries. 

  • 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. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

  • In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication. 

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

length

noun
  • The distance down the pitch that the ball bounces on its way to the batsman. 

  • The number of cards held in a particular suit. 

  • duration. 

  • A unit of script length, comprising 42 lines. 

  • The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object. 

  • The length of a horse, used to indicate the distance between horses at the end of a race. 

  • Part of something that is long; a physical piece of something. 

  • Distance between the two ends of a line segment. 

  • Total extent. 

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