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Cricket vs Wicket - What's the difference?

cricket | wicket |

As nouns the difference between cricket and wicket

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 wicket is a small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.

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.

    • wicket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.
  • A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
  • * 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia , Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 386:
    • As he did so he heard the shuffle of footsteps entering the chapel and the clicking of the confessional wicket .
  • (British) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with a teller; a (ticket barrier) at a rail station.
  • (cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps and two bails; the target for the bowler, defended by the batsman.
  • (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
  • (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.
  • (cricket) The pitch.
  • (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
  • (croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
  • (skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
  • (US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
    • (Bartlett)
  • (mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
    • (Raymond)
  • (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.

    • Derived terms

    * (l) * (l)