cricket
part of speech
noun (cricket — uncountable, the game; a cricket, crickets — the insect)
meaning for a pupil
1) Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players on a large field with a pitch in the middle, where a bowler bowls to a batter who tries to score runs. tree →
2) A cricket is a jumping insect, like a grasshopper, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wings. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Crickets and some locusts are the only winged swarming insects the Torah allows as food. Tradition says that only communities with a tradition about which species are permitted may eat them. In the primary lessons: In sport, cricket is very popular in England, Australia, New Zealand, India, Pakistan, South Africa and the West Indies; matches can last from a few hours to five days (Test matches); the Ashes is a famous series between England and Australia. Words: wicket, stumps, bails, over (six balls), runs, four, six, out, umpire. In maths, cricket scores and run rates make good problems. In science, crickets are insects with six legs; male crickets chirp, and they chirp faster when it is warmer. Phrases: «play cricket», «cricket bat», «cricket match», «it's not cricket» (old-fashioned British for «it's not fair»).
examples
- even these of them ye may eat: the locust after its kinds, and the bald locust after its kinds, and the cricket after its kinds, and the grasshopper after its kinds. (Torah LEV.11.22, JPS 1917) tree →
- We play cricket in the summer holidays. tree →
- The bowler took three wickets. tree →
- He hit the ball for six in the cricket match. tree →
- An over in cricket has six balls. tree →
- The crickets chirped all night. tree →
- Crickets have long back legs for jumping. tree →
- Australia and England play for the Ashes. tree →
- We ate sandwiches at the cricket. tree →
- “Keep still, you ugly Cricket!” cried Pinocchio. tree →
note
The game is uncountable («play cricket», not «a cricket»); the insect is countable («two crickets»). A cricket insect has six legs, like all insects. In cricket, «a run» is a point, and «a six» means 6 runs scored by hitting the ball over the boundary.
In the corpora
- Cave crickets have very long legs and feelers because in the dark touch is more useful than sight.
- At a night market in Thailand a child your age buys a paper cone of fried crickets the way you might buy chips.
- A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fielders and goalies wear helmets and pads.
- In cricket the bowler must bowl, not throw: the elbow must not bend and straighten as the ball is let go.
- In cricket an over is 6 balls bowled by one bowler.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cricket» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.