cricket vs party

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. 

party

noun
  • With to: an accessory, someone who takes part. 

  • A group of people traveling or attending an event together, or participating in the same activity. 

  • A group of persons collected or gathered together for some particular purpose. 

  • A political group considered as a formal whole, united under one specific political platform of issues and campaigning to take part in government. 

  • A person or group of people constituting a particular side in a contract or legal action. 

  • A discrete detachment of troops, especially for a particular purpose. 

  • A gathering of acquaintances so that one of them may offer items for sale to the rest of them. 

  • A gathering of usually invited guests for entertainment, fun and socializing. 

  • A small group of birds or mammals. 

adj
  • Of a fence or wall: shared by two properties and serving to divide them. 

  • Parted or divided, as in the direction or form of one of the ordinaries. 

verb
  • To form a party (with). 

  • To celebrate at a party, to have fun, to enjoy oneself. 

  • To take recreational drugs. 

  • To engage in flings, to have one-night stands, to sow one's wild oats. 

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