Breeze vs. Cricket — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Breeze and Cricket
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Definitions
Breeze
A light current of air; a gentle wind.
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 "out").
Breeze
Any of five winds with speeds of from 4 to 27 knots (5 to 31 miles per hour; 7 to 50 kilometers per hour), according to the Beaufort scale.
Cricket
Any of various orthopteran insects of the family Gryllidae, having long antennae and legs adapted for leaping. The males of many species produce a shrill chirping sound by rubbing the front wings together.
Breeze
(Informal) Something, such as a task, that is easy to do.
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Cricket
(Sports) An outdoor game played with bats, a ball, and wickets by two teams of 11 players each.
Breeze
The refuse left when coke or charcoal is made.
Cricket
Good sportsmanship and fair conduct
It's not cricket to cheat at cards.
Breeze
To move quickly, smoothly, or easily
Breezing along on the freeway.
Cricket
A small wooden footstool.
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Breeze
To progress swiftly or easily
We breezed through the test.
Cricket
A ridged structure made of two adjoining triangular pieces covered with flashing or roofing material and built at the upper intersection of a roof and chimney to divert water and prevent the accumulation of snow and debris. Also called saddle.
Breeze
A light, gentle wind.
The breeze rustled the papers on her desk.
Cricket
To play the game of cricket.
Breeze
(figurative) Any activity that is easy, not testing or difficult.
After studying Latin, Spanish was a breeze.
Cricket
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.
Breeze
(cricket) Wind blowing across a cricket match, whatever its strength.
Cricket
In the form crickets: absolute silence; no communication.
Breeze
An excited or ruffled state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel.
The discovery produced a breeze.
Cricket
A signalling device used by soldiers in hostile territory to identify themselves to a friendly in low visibility conditions.
Breeze
A brief workout for a racehorse.
Cricket
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.
Breeze
A gadfly; a horsefly; a strong-bodied dipterous insect of the family Tabanidae.
Cricket
An aural warning sound consisting of a continuously-repeating chime, designed to be difficult for pilots to ignore.
Breeze
Ashes and residue of coal or charcoal, usually from a furnace. See Wikipedia article on Clinker.
Cricket
(sports) A game played outdoors with bats and a ball between two teams of eleven, popular in England and many Commonwealth countries.
Breeze
To move casually, in a carefree manner.
Cricket
An act that is fair and sportsmanlike.
Not cricket
Breeze
(weather) To blow gently.
Cricket
A variant of the game of darts. See Cricket (darts).
Breeze
To take a horse on a light run in order to understand the running characteristics of the horse and to observe it while under motion.
Cricket
A wooden footstool.
Breeze
(of fish) To swim near the surface of the water, causing ripples in the surface.
Cricket
To play the game of cricket.
Breeze
(intransitive) To buzz.
Cricket
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.
Breeze
A fly of various species, of the family Tabanidæ, noted for buzzing about animals, and tormenting them by sucking their blood; - called also horsefly, and gadfly. They are among the largest of two-winged or dipterous insects. The name is also given to different species of botflies.
Cricket
A low stool.
Breeze
A light, gentle wind; a fresh, soft-blowing wind.
Into a gradual calm the breezes sink.
Cricket
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.
Breeze
An excited or ruffed state of feeling; a flurry of excitement; a disturbance; a quarrel; as, the discovery produced a breeze.
Cricket
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.
Breeze
Refuse left in the process of making coke or burning charcoal.
Cricket
To play at cricket.
Breeze
Refuse coal, coal ashes, and cinders, used in the burning of bricks.
Cricket
Leaping insect; male makes chirping noises by rubbing the forewings together
Breeze
To blow gently.
Cricket
A game played with a ball and bat by two teams of 11 players; teams take turns trying to score runs
Breeze
A slight wind (usually refreshing);
The breeze was cooled by the lake
As he waited he could feel the air on his neck
Cricket
Play cricket
Breeze
Any undertaking that is easy to do;
Marketing this product will be no picnic
Breeze
Blow gently and lightly;
It breezes most evenings at the shore
Breeze
To proceed quickly and easily