Cricket vs. Football

Cricketnoun

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.

Cricketnoun

In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.

Cricketnoun

A wooden footstool.

Cricketnoun

A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.

Cricketnoun

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.

Cricketnoun

(sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.

Cricketnoun

An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.

Cricketverb

To play the game of cricket.

Cricketnoun

An orthopterous insect of the genus Gryllus, and allied genera. The males make chirping, musical notes by rubbing together the basal parts of the veins of the front wings.

Cricketnoun

A low stool.

Cricketnoun

A game much played in England, and sometimes in America, with a ball, bats, and wickets, the players being arranged in two contesting parties or sides.

Cricketnoun

A small false roof, or the raising of a portion of a roof, so as to throw off water from behind an obstacle, such as a chimney.

Cricketverb

To play at cricket.

Cricketnoun

leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together

Cricketnoun

a game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs

Cricketverb

play cricket

Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a 22-yard (20-metre) pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striking the ball bowled at the wicket with the bat (and running between the wickets), while the bowling and fielding side tries to prevent this (by preventing the ball from leaving the field, and getting the ball to either wicket) and dismiss each batter (so they are ).

Footballnoun

(general) A sport played on foot in which teams attempt to get a ball into a goal or zone defended by the other team.

Footballnoun

Association football: a game in which two teams each contend to get a round ball into the other team's goal primarily by kicking the ball. Known as soccer in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand.

Footballnoun

American football: a game played on a field of 100 yards long and 53 1/3 yards wide in which two teams of 11 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

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Canadian football: a game played on a played on a field of 110 yards long and 65 yards wide in which two teams of 12 players attempt to get an ovoid ball to the end of each other's territory.

Footballnoun

Australian rules football.

Footballnoun

Gaelic football: a field game played with similar rules to hurling, but using hands and feet rather than a stick, and a ball, similar to, yet smaller than a soccer ball.

Footballnoun

rugby league.

Footballnoun

rugby union.

Footballnoun

(countable) The ball used in any game called "football".

Footballnoun

(uncountable) Practice of these particular games, or techniques used in them.

Footballnoun

An item of discussion, particularly in a back-and-forth manner

Footballnoun

The leather briefcase containing classified nuclear war plans, which is always near the US President.

Footballnoun

An inflated ball to be kicked in sport, usually made in India rubber, or a bladder incased in Leather.

Footballnoun

The game played with a football{1}, by two opposing teams of players moving the ball between goals at opposite ends of a rectangular playing field. Outside the United States football refers to soccer, and in England, also to rugby, but in the United States the shape of the ball and the rules of the game are different.

Footballnoun

Soccer or rugby.

Footballnoun

Something which is treated in a rough manner, usually as part of a dispute; as, a political football.

Footballnoun

any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal

Footballnoun

the inflated oblong ball used in playing American football

Footballnoun

any of various forms of team game involving kicking (and in some cases also handling) a ball, in particular (in the UK) soccer or (in the US) American football

Footballnoun

the playing of football, especially in a stylish and entertaining way

Footballnoun

a ball used in football, either round (as in soccer) or oval (as in rugby and American football) and typically made of leather or plastic and filled with compressed air.

Footballnoun

a topical issue that is the subject of continued argument or controversy

Footballnoun

a briefcase containing authentication codes and other items that allow the US president to authorize a nuclear strike at any time

Football

Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word football normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used.