cricket vs team

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. 

team

noun
  • Any group of people involved in the same activity, especially sports or work. 

  • A set of draught animals, such as two horses in front of a carriage. 

  • A group of people who favor one side of a binary debate that is divided and lacks a well-established clear consensus. 

verb
  • To go together well; to harmonize. 

  • To convey or haul with a team. 

  • To form a group, as for sports or work. 

  • To give work to a gang under a subcontractor. 

  • To form together into a team. 

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