cricket vs service

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. 

service

noun
  • An act of being of assistance to someone. 

  • The materials used for serving a rope, etc., such as spun yarn and small lines. 

  • The act of initially starting, or serving, the ball in play in tennis, volleyball, and other games. 

  • A musical composition for use in churches. 

  • The military. 

  • A taxi shared among unrelated passengers, each of whom pays part of the fare; often, it has a fixed route between cities. 

  • A function that is provided by one program or machine for another. 

  • A department in a company, an organization, a government department, etc. 

  • The serving, or delivery, of a summons or writ. 

  • The state of being subordinate to or employed by an individual or group 

  • The sorb; the fruit of this tree. 

  • Access to resources such as hotel rooms and web-based videos without transfer of the resources' ownership. 

  • A set of dishes or utensils. 

  • A religious rite or ritual. 

  • The practice of providing such a service as economic activity. 

  • Service tree. 

verb
  • To serve. 

  • To perform maintenance. 

  • To supply (media outlets) with press releases etc. 

  • To inseminate through sexual intercourse. 

  • To perform a sexual act upon. 

  • To attack. 

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