cricket vs upright

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. 

upright

noun
  • A leg 

  • An upright piano. 

  • An upright arcade game cabinet. 

  • A word clued by the successive initial, middle, or final letters of the cross-lights in a double acrostic or triple acrostic. 

  • A goal post. 

  • Any vertical part of a structure. 

adj
  • Greater in height than breadth. 

  • Of good morals; practicing ethical values. 

  • Vertical; erect 

  • Having the head approximately at a right angle with the shaft. 

  • In its proper orientation; not overturned. 

verb
  • To set upright or stand back up (something that has fallen). 

adv
  • In or into an upright position. 

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