Synonyms of the word wicket


WICKETGATE - GRILLE - HOOP - LATTICE - OPENING

wicket

  • n. A small door or gate, especially one associated with a larger one.
  • n. A small window or other opening, sometimes fitted with a grating.
  • n. (Britain) A service window, as in a bank or train station, where a customer conducts transactions with…
  • n. (cricket) One of the two wooden structures at each end of the pitch, consisting of three vertical stumps…
  • n. (cricket) A dismissal; the act of a batsman getting out.
  • n. (cricket) The period during which two batsmen bat together.
  • n. (cricket) The pitch.
  • n. (cricket) The area around the stumps where the batsmen stand.
  • n. (croquet) Any of the small arches through which the balls are driven.
  • n. (skiing, snowboarding) A temporary metal attachment that one attaches one's lift-ticket to.
  • n. (US, dialect) A shelter made from tree boughs, used by lumbermen.
  • n. (mining) The space between the pillars, in post-and-stall working.
  • n. (Internet, informal) An angle bracket when used in HTML.

gate

  • n. A doorlike structure outside a house.
  • n. Doorway, opening, or passage in a fence or wall.
  • n. Movable barrier.
  • n. (computing) A logical pathway made up of switches which turn on or off. Examples are and, or, nand, etc.
  • n. (cricket) The gap between a batsman's bat and pad.
  • n. The amount of money made by selling tickets to a concert or a sports event.
  • n. (flow cytometry) A line that separates particle type-clusters on two-dimensional dot plots.
  • n. Passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark.
  • n. (electronics) The controlling terminal of a field effect transistor (FET).
  • n. In a lock tumbler, the opening for the stump of the bolt to pass through or into.
  • n. (metalworking) The channel or opening through which metal is poured into the mould; the ingate.
  • n. The waste piece of metal cast in the opening; a sprue or sullage piece. Also written geat and git.
  • n. (cinematography) A mechanism, in a film camera and projector, that holds each frame momentarily stationary…
  • v. To keep something inside by means of a closed gate.
  • v. To ground someone.
  • v. (biochemistry) To open a closed ion channel.
  • v. (transitive) To furnish with a gate.
  • v. (transitive) To turn (an image intensifier) on and off selectively as needed, or to avoid damage. See…
  • n. (now Scotland, Northern England) A way, path.
  • n. (obsolete) A journey.
  • n. (Northern England) A street; now used especially as a combining form to make the name of a street.
  • n. (Britain, Scotland, dialect, archaic) Manner; gait.

grille

  • n. Alternative form of grill (only in the senses of "grating over opening" and "grating on the front of a…

hoop

  • n. A circular band of metal used to bind a barrel.
  • n. A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop.
  • n. (chiefly in the plural) A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic…
  • n. A quart pot; so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents…
  • n. (Britain, obsolete) An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
  • n. (plural) The game of basketball.
  • n. A hoop earring.
  • n. (Australia, metonymically, informal, dated) A jockey; from a common pattern on the blouse.
  • n. (usually, plural) (sports) A horizontal stripe on the jersey.
  • v. (transitive) To bind or fasten using a hoop.
  • v. (transitive) To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
  • n. A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
  • n. The hoopoe.
  • v. (dated) To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
  • v. (dated) To whoop, as in whooping cough.

lattice

  • n. A flat panel constructed with widely-spaced crossed thin strips of wood or other material, commonly used…
  • n. (heraldry) A bearing with vertical and horizontal bands.
  • n. (crystallography) a regular spacing or arrangement of geometric points, often decorated with a motif.
  • n. (order theory) A partially ordered set in which every pair of elements has a unique supremum and a unique…
  • n. (group theory) A discrete subgroup of Rn which spans the real vector space Rn.
  • v. To make a lattice of.
  • v. To close, as an opening, with latticework; to furnish with a lattice.

opening

  • v. present participle of open.
  • n. An act or instance of making or becoming open.
  • n. Something that is open.
  • n. An act or instance of beginning.
  • n. Something that is a beginning.
  • n. A vacant position, especially in an array.
  • n. An opportunity, as in a competitive activity.
  • adj. (cricket) describing the first period of play, usually up to the fall of the first wicket; describing…

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