cricket vs table

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. 

table

noun
  • An item of furniture with a flat top surface raised above the ground, usually on one or more legs. 

  • A visual representation of a classification of teams or individuals based on their success over a predetermined period. 

  • One half of a backgammon board, which is divided into the inner and outer table. 

  • A matrix or grid of data arranged in rows and columns. 

  • The lineup of players at a given table. 

  • A flat tray which can be used as a table. 

  • A lookup table, most often a set of vectors. 

  • The board or table-like furniture on which a game is played, such as snooker, billiards, or draughts. 

  • The top of a stringed instrument, particularly a member of the violin family: the side of the instrument against which the strings vibrate. 

  • A group of players meeting regularly to play a campaign. 

  • A supply of food or entertainment. 

  • A group of people at a table, for example for a meal or game. 

  • The flat topmost facet of a cut diamond. 

  • A service of Holy Communion. 

  • A collection of arithmetic calculations arranged in a table, such as multiplications in a multiplication table. 

verb
  • To remove from the agenda, to postpone dealing with; to shelve (to indefinitely postpone consideration or discussion of something). 

  • To tabulate; to put into a table or grid. 

  • To put on a table. 

  • To make board hems in the skirts and bottoms of (sails) in order to strengthen them in the part attached to the bolt-rope. 

  • To put on the table of a commission or legislative assembly; to propose for formal discussion or consideration, to put on the agenda. 

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