cricket vs sort

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. 

sort

noun
  • Manner; form of being or acting. 

  • An act of sorting. 

  • A type. 

  • An algorithm for sorting a list of items into a particular sequence. 

  • A piece of metal type used to print one letter, character, or symbol in a particular size and style. 

  • A general type. 

  • A person evaluated in a certain way (bad, good, strange, etc.). 

  • A good-looking woman. 

verb
  • To join or associate with others, especially with others of the same kind or species; to agree. 

  • To suit; to fit; to be in accord; to harmonize. 

  • To fix (a problem) or handle (a task). 

  • To arrange into some sequence, usually numerically, alphabetically or chronologically. 

  • To attack physically. 

  • To geld. 

  • To separate items into different categories according to certain criteria that determine their sorts. 

  • To conjoin; to put together in distribution; to class. 

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