cricket vs retrieve

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. 

retrieve

noun
  • The return of a difficult ball 

  • A retrieval 

verb
  • To remember or recall something. 

  • To regain or get back something. 

  • To fetch and bring in game. 

  • To salvage something 

  • To make a difficult but successful return of the ball. 

  • To fetch and bring in game systematically. 

  • To fetch or carry back something, especially (computing) a file or data record. 

  • To rescue (a creature). 

  • To remedy or rectify something. 

  • To fetch or carry back systematically, notably as a game. 

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