cricket vs male

cricket

noun
  • A wooden footstool. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

male

noun
  • A male connector, pipe fitting, etc. 

  • A plant of the masculine sex. 

  • An animal of the sex that has testes. 

  • A human member of the masculine sex or gender. 

  • A bacterium which has the F factor. 

adj
  • Belonging to the sex which typically produces sperm, or to the gender which is typically associated with it. 

  • Having the F factor; able to impart DNA into another bacterium which does not have the F factor (a female). 

  • Of instruments, tools, or connectors: designed to fit into or penetrate a female counterpart, as in a connector, pipe fitting or laboratory glassware. 

  • Characteristic of this sex/gender. (Compare masculine, manly.) 

  • Tending to lead to or regulate the development of sexual characteristics typical of this sex. 

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