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.
To play the game of cricket.
A piece of residential land; a plot.
The symbol §, denoting a section of a document.
An informal taxonomic rank below the order ranks and above the family ranks.
Synonym of square mile, a unit of land area, especially in the contexts of Canadan surveys and (historical) American land grants.
A sequence of rock layers.
A thin slice of material prepared as a specimen for research.
A class in a school; a group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher in a certain school year or semester or school quarter year.
A right inverse.
A cross-section perpendicular the longitudinal axis of an aircraft in flight.
A group of instruments in an orchestra.
An act or instance of cutting.
A cutting; a part cut out from the rest of something.
A cross-section (image that shows an object as if cut along a plane).
An incision or the act of making an incision.
A taxonomic rank below the genus (and subgenus if present), but above the species.
A group of 10-15 soldiers led by a non-commissioned officer and forming part of a platoon.
A part of a document, especially a major part; often notated with §.
A part, piece, subdivision of anything.
To reduce to the degree of thinness required for study with the microscope.
To perform a cesarean section on (someone).
To commit (a person, to a hospital, with or without their consent), as for mental health reasons. So called after various sections of legal acts regarding mental health.
To cut, divide or separate into pieces.