cricket vs socket

cricket

noun
  • A wooden footstool. 

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

socket

noun
  • A hollow tool for grasping and lifting tools dropped in a well-boring. 

  • One endpoint of a two-way communication link, used for interprocess communication across a network. 

  • A hollow into a bone which a part fits, such as an eye, or another bone, in the case of a joint. 

  • An opening into which a plug or other connecting part is designed to fit (e.g. a light bulb socket). 

  • One endpoint of a two-way named pipe on Unix and Unix-like systems, used for interprocess communication. 

  • The hollow of a candlestick. 

  • A steel apparatus attached to a saddle to protect the thighs and legs. 

verb
  • To place or fit in a socket. 

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