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Cricket vs Cicada - What's the difference?

cricket | cicada |

As nouns the difference between cricket and cicada

is that cricket is an insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family family: Gryllidae, that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs while cicada is any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent] well-veined wings.

As a verb cricket

is to play the game of cricket.

cricket

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) criquet, from .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An insect in the order Orthoptera, especially family , that makes a chirping sound by rubbing its wing casings against combs on its hind legs.
  • A wooden footstool.
  • A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions
  • 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.
  • (US slang, in the plural) Absolute silence; no communication. See crickets.
  • Derived terms
    * balm cricket * chirpy as a cricket * cricket bird * cricket frog * house cricket * mole cricket * Mormon cricket * true cricket

    Etymology 2

    Perhaps from a Flemish dialect of Dutch 'to ricochet' , i.e. "to chase a ball with a crook".[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7919429.stm]

    Noun

    (-)
  • (sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
  • (chiefly, British) An act that is fair and sportsmanlike, derived from the sport.
  • ''That player's foul wasn't cricket !
    Usage notes
    The sense "An act that is fair and sportsmanlike" is always used in negative constructions and is not restricted to sports usage. * (An act that is unfair or unsportsmanlike) not cricket
    See also
    *

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (rare) To play the game of cricket.
  • cicada

    English

    (wikipedia cicada) (Cicadoidea)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Any of several insects in the superfamily Cicadoidea, with small eyes wide apart on the head and transparent] well-veined wings.
  • *
  • # The periodical cicada.
  • #*
  • #* {{quote-news, title=Magicidada coming to New Jersey on May 27, work=Hunterdon County Democrat,
  • date=May 16, year=2013, author=Laura Kroon, passage=Last year, the Brood I cicadas' were found in Virginia, West Virginia, and Tennessee. The ' cicadas that will emerge in New Jersey this year are part of Brood II or The East Coast Brood. They will also be found in Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.}}

    Hyponyms

    * (periodical cicada) seventeen-year locust, decim periodical cicada

    Derived terms

    * hairy cicada

    See also

    * cricket * grasshopper * locust ----