An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
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).
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.
To play the game of cricket.
A very noticeable visible or audible reaction of a person or group.
An area of terrain that tends upward away from the viewer, such that it conceals the region behind it; a slope.
The amount of material extending from waist to crotch in a pair of trousers or shorts.
A small hill; used chiefly in place names.
The process of or an action or instance of coming to prominence.
An increase in a quantity, price, etc.
The process of or an action or instance of moving upwards or becoming greater.
The height of an arch or a step.
To become active, effective or operational, especially in response to an external or internal stimulus.
To leave one's bed; to get up.
To attain a higher status.
To terminate an official sitting; to adjourn.
To have its source (in a particular place).
Of a quantity, price, etc., to increase.
To develop.
To become erect; to assume an upright position.
To become more and more dignified or forcible; to increase in interest or power; said of style, thought, or discourse.
To ascend on a musical scale; to take a higher pitch.
To be resurrected.
To swell or puff up in the process of fermentation; to become light.
To slope upward.
To become perceptible to the senses, other than sight.
To come to mind; to be suggested; to occur.
To go up; to ascend; to climb.
To appear to move upwards from behind the horizon of a planet as a result of the planet's rotation.
To come; to offer itself.
To move upwards.
To grow upward; to attain a certain height.
To become agitated, opposed, or hostile; to go to war; to take up arms; to rebel.
To cause to go up or ascend.