Cricket vs Locust - What's the difference?
cricket | locust |
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.
(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.
A type of grasshopper in the family Acrididae that flies in swarms and is very destructive to crops and other vegetation.
A locust tree.
As nouns the difference between locust and cricket
is that locust is a type of grasshopper in the family Acrididae that flies in swarms and is very destructive to crops and other vegetation while 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.As a verb cricket is
to play the game of cricket.cricket
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) criquet, from .Noun
(en noun)Derived terms
* balm cricket * chirpy as a cricket * cricket bird * cricket frog * house cricket * mole cricket * Mormon cricket * true cricketEtymology 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
(-)- ''That player's foul wasn't cricket !