cricket

«cricket» in Mova's school dictionary: a bat-and-ball game played by two teams of eleven players… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

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 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

• 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.