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cricket
1. n. 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.
2. n. (US, slang) In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
3. n. A wooden footstool.
4. n. A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
5. n. 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.
6. n. (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
7. n. (chiefly British) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
That player's foul wasn't cricket!
8. v. (rare, intransitive) To play the game of cricket.
describing
1. v. present participle of describe
describe
1. v. To represent in words.
The feeling is difficult to describe, but not unpleasant.
The geographer describes countries and cities.
2. v. To represent by drawing; to draw a plan of; to delineate; to trace or mark out.
to describe a circle by the compasses; a torch waved about the head in such a way as to describe a circle
3. v. (transitive, mathematics) To give rise to a geometrical structure.
The function describes a very complex surface.
4. v. (transitive, taxonomy) To introduce a new taxon to science by explaining its characteristics and particularly how it differs from other taxa.
The fungus was first described by a botanist.
5. v. (obsolete) To distribute into parts, groups, or classes; to mark off; to class.
a
1. art. One; any indefinite example of; used to denote a singular item of a group.
There was a man here looking for you yesterday.
2. art. Used in conjunction with the adjectives score, dozen, hundred, thousand, and million, as a function word.
I've seen it happen a hundred times.
3. art. One certain or particular; any single.Brown, Lesley, (2003)
We've received an interesting letter from a Mrs. Miggins of London.
4. art. The same; one.
We are of a mind on matters of morals.
5. art. Any, every; used before a noun which has become modified to limit its scope; also used with a negative to indicate not a single one.Lindberg, Christine A. (2007)
A man who dies intestate leaves his children troubles and difficulties.
He fell all that way, and hasn't a bump on his head?
6. art. Used before plural nouns modified by few, good many, couple, great many, etc.
7. art. Someone or something like; similar to; Used before a proper noun to create an example out of it.
The center of the village was becoming a Times Square.
8. prep. (archaic) To do with position or direction; In, on, at, by, towards, onto.
Stand a tiptoe.
9. prep. To do with separation; In, into.
Torn a pieces.
10. prep. To do with time; Each, per, in, on, by.
I brush my teeth twice a day.
11. prep. (obsolete) To do with method; In, with.
12. prep. (obsolete) To do with role or capacity; In.
A God’s name.
13. prep. To do with status; In.
King James Bible (II Chronicles 2:18)
To set the people a worke.
14. prep. (archaic) To do with process, with a passive verb; In the course of, experiencing.
1964, Bob Dylan, The Times They Are a-Changin’
The times, they are a-changin'.
15. prep. (archaic) To do with an action, an active verb; Engaged in.
1611, King James Bible, Hebrews 11-21
Jacob, when he was a dying
16. prep. (archaic) To do with an action/movement; To, into.
17. v. (archaic, or slang) Have.
I'd a come, if you'd a asked.
18. pron. (obsolete, outside, England, and Scotland dialects) He.
19. interj. A meaningless syllable; ah.
20. prep. (archaic, slang) Of.
The name of John a Gaunt.
21. adv. (chiefly Scotland) All.
22. adj. (chiefly Scotland) All.
bowler
1. n. (bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.
2. n. (cricket) The player currently bowling.
3. n. (cricket) A player selected mainly for his bowling ability.
4. n. (baseball, slang) The pitcher.
5. n. A bowler hat; a round black hat formerly popular among British businessmen.
Who
1. pron. honoraltcaps, who
2. pron. (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; (asks for the identity of someone). (used in a direct or indirect question)
Who is that? (direct question)
I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
3. pron. (interrogative) What is one's position; (asks whether someone deserves to say or do something).
I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse.
4. pron. (relative) The person or people that.
It was a nice man who helped us.
5. pron. (relative, archaic) Whoever, he who, they who.
6. n. A person under discussion; a question of which person.
bowls
1. n. plural of bowl
2. n. A precision sport where the goal is to roll biased balls (weighted on one side, and called bowls) closer to a smaller white ball (the jack or kitty) than one's opponent is able to do.
3. n. A ball used in the game of bowls
4. v. third-person singular present indicative of bowl
bowl
1. n. A roughly hemispherical container used to hold, mix or present food, such as salad, fruit or soup, or other items.
2. n. As much as is held by a bowl.
You can’t have any more soup – you’ve had three bowls already.
3. n. A haircut in which straight hair is cut at an even height around the edges, forming a bowl shape.
4. n. The round hollow part of anything.
Direct the cleaning fluid around the toilet bowl and under the rim.
5. n. The part of a spoon that holds content, as opposed to the handle.
6. n. A part of a pipe or bong packed with marijuana for smoking
Let's smoke a bowl!
7. n. (typography) A rounded portion of a glyph that encloses empty space, as in the letters d and o.
8. n. A round crater (or similar) in the ground.
9. n. (sports) An elliptical-shaped stadium or amphitheater resembling a bowl.
10. n. (American football) A postseason football competition, a bowl game (i.e. Rose Bowl, Super Bowl)
11. n. The ball rolled by players in the game of lawn bowls.
12. n. The action of bowling a ball.
13. n. (in the but used with a singular verb) The game of bowls.
14. v. To roll or throw (a ball) in the correct manner in cricket and similar games and sports.
15. v. (intransitive) To throw the ball (in cricket and similar games and sports).
16. v. To roll or carry smoothly on, or as on, wheels.
We were bowled rapidly along the road.
17. v. To pelt or strike with anything rolled.
fast
1. adj. (dated) Firmly or securely fixed in place; stable.
That rope is dangerously loose. Make it fast!
2. adj. Firm against attack; fortified by nature or art; impregnable; strong.
3. adj. (of people) Steadfast, with unwavering feeling. (Now mostly in set phrases like fast friend.)
4. adj. Moving with great speed, or capable of doing so; swift, rapid.
I am going to buy a fast car.
5. adj. Causing unusual rapidity of play or action.
a fast racket, or tennis court; a fast track; a fast billiard table; a fast dance floor
6. adj. (computing, of a piece of hardware) Able to transfer data in a short period of time.
7. adj. Deep or sound (of sleep); fast asleep (of people).
8. adj. (of dyes or colours) Not running or fading when subjected to detrimental conditions such as wetness or intense light; permanent.
All the washing has come out pink. That red tee-shirt was not fast.
9. adj. (obsolete) Tenacious; retentive.
10. adj. (dated) Having an extravagant lifestyle or immoral habits.
a fast woman
11. adj. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
There must be something wrong with the hall clock. It is always fast.
12. adj. (of photographic film) More sensitive to light than average.
13. adv. In a firm or secure manner, securely; in such a way as not to be moved; safe, sound.
Hold this rope as fast as you can.
14. adv. (of sleeping) Deeply or soundly.
He is fast asleep.
15. adv. Immediately following in place or time; close, very near.
The horsemen came fast on our heels.
16. adv. Quickly, with great speed; within a short time.
Do it as fast as you can.
17. adv. Ahead of the correct time or schedule.
I think my watch is running fast.
18. n. (UK, rail transport) A train that calls at only some stations it passes between its origin and destination, typically just the principal stations
19. interj. (archery) Short for "stand fast", a warning not to pass between the arrow and the target
20. v. (intransitive) To restrict one’s personal consumption, generally of food, but sometimes other things, in various manners (totally, temporally, by avoiding particular items), often for religious or med
Muslims fast during Ramadan and Catholics during Lent.
21. n. The act or practice of abstaining from food or of eating very little food.
22. n. The period of time during which one abstains from or eats very little food.
Lent and Ramadan are fasts of two religions.
balls
1. n. plural of ball
Can you believe he can juggle six balls at once?
2. n. (vulgar, slang) The testicles.
After that shot his balls were really hurting!
3. n. (vulgar, slang) Bravery, courage, chutzpah, or brazenness.
He must have a lot of balls to talk to his boss that way.
He's the guy with the big balls in that group.
Balls is all that it takes to succeed.
4. n. (UK, vulgar, slang) Rubbish, nonsense.
That's a load of balls.
5. n. (Ireland) A balls-up; a botched job.
Don't make a balls of it!
6. v. Speaking or acting with bravado to achieve (something)
7. v. third-person singular present indicative of ball
8. adv. (slang) Very. Intensifier.
It is balls cold out there.
ball
1. n. A solid or hollow sphere, or part thereof.
a ball of spittle; a fecal ball
2. n. A quantity of string, thread, etc., wound into a spherical shape.
a ball of wool; a ball of twine
3. n. (ballistics) A solid, spherical nonexplosive missile for a cannon, etc.
4. n. # A jacketed non-expanding bullet, typically of military origin.
5. n. # (obsolete) Such bullets collectively.
6. n. A roundish protuberant portion of some part of the body.
the ball of the thumb; the ball of the foot
7. n. (anatomy) The front of the bottom of the foot, just behind the toes.
8. n. The globe; the earthly sphere.
9. n. (mathematics) The set of points in a metric space lying within a given distance (the radius) of a given point; specifically, the homologue of the disk
10. n. (mathematics, more generally) The set of points in a topological space lying within some open set containing a given point; the analogue of the disk in
11. n. An object, generally spherical, used for playing games.
12. n. (sport) A round or ellipsoidal object.
13. n. Any simple game involving a ball.
The children were playing ball on the beach.
The children were playing ball in the garden.
14. n. (baseball) A pitch that falls outside of the strike zone.
15. n. (pinball) An opportunity to launch the pinball into play.
If you get to a million points, you get another ball.
16. n. (cricket) A single delivery by the bowler, six of which make up an over.
17. n. (soccer) A pass; a kick of the football towards a teammate.
18. n. (mildly, vulgar, slang) A testicle.
19. n. Nonsense.
That’s a load of balls, and you know it!
20. n. Courage.
I doubt he’s got the balls to tell him off.
21. n. (printing, historical) A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; formerly used by printers for inking the form, then superseded by the roller.
22. n. (farriery, historical) A large pill, a form in which medicine was given to horses; a bolus.
23. v. To form or wind into a ball.
to ball cotton
24. v. (metalworking) To heat in a furnace and form into balls for rolling.
25. v. (transitive, vulgar) To have sexual intercourse with.
26. v. To gather balls which cling to the feet, as of damp snow or clay; to gather into balls.
The horse balls; the snow balls.
27. v. (slang) To be hip or cool.
28. v. (nonstandard, slang) To play basketball.
29. interj. (Australian rules football) An appeal by the crowd for holding the ball against a tackled player. This is heard almost any time an opposition player is tackled, without regard to whether the rules abo
30. n. A formal dance.
31. n. (informal) A very enjoyable time.
I had a ball at that concert.

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