cricket vs plane

cricket

noun
  • 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. 

  • An act that is fair and sportsmanlike. 

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

verb
  • To play the game of cricket. 

plane

noun
  • A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. (Compare wing, airfoil, hydrofoil.) 

  • A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus. 

  • A level of existence or development. 

  • An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions. 

  • A sycamore. 

  • Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each. 

  • A level or flat surface. 

  • An airplane; an aeroplane. 

  • The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia. 

  • A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface. 

  • Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight. 

  • A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). 

adj
  • Of a surface: flat or level. 

verb
  • To glide or soar. 

  • To smooth (wood) with a plane. 

  • To move in a way that lifts the bow out of the water. 

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