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wick·et

(wĭk′ĭt)
n.
1. A small door or gate, especially one built into or near a larger one.
2. A small window or opening, often fitted with glass or a grating.
3. A sluice gate for regulating the amount of water in a millrace or canal or for emptying a lock.
4. Sports In cricket:
a. Either of the two sets of three stumps, topped by bails, that forms the target of the bowler and is defended by the batsman.
b. A batsman's innings, which may be terminated by the ball knocking the bails off the stumps.
c. The termination of a batsman's innings.
d. The period during which two batsmen are in together.
e. See pitch 2.
5. Games Any of the small arches, usually made of wire, through which players try to drive their ball in croquet.
[Middle English, from Old North French wiket, nook, wicket; see weik- in Indo-European roots.]
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wicket

(ˈwɪkɪt)
n
1. (Building) a small door or gate, esp one that is near to or part of a larger one
2. (Building) US a small window or opening in a door, esp one fitted with a grating or glass pane, used as a means of communication in a ticket office, bank, etc
3. (Civil Engineering) a small sluicegate, esp one in a canal lock gate or by a water wheel
4. (Croquet) US a croquet hoop
5. (Cricket)
a. cricket either of two constructions, placed 22 yards apart, consisting of three pointed stumps stuck parallel in the ground with two wooden bails resting on top, at which the batsman stands
b. the strip of ground between these
c. a batsman's turn at batting or the period during which two batsmen bat: a third-wicket partnership.
d. the act or instance of a batsman being got out: the bowler took six wickets.
6. (Cricket) keep wicket to act as a wicketkeeper
7. on a sticky wicket informal in an awkward situation
[C18: from Old Northern French wiket; related to Old Norse vikja to move]
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wick•et

(ˈwɪk ɪt)

n.
1. a window or opening, often closed by a grating or the like, as in a door, or forming a place of communication in a ticket office, a teller's cage in a bank, etc.
2. a croquet hoop or arch.
3. a small door or gate, esp. one beside, or forming part of, a larger one.
4. a turnstile.
5. Cricket.
a. either of the two frameworks, each consisting of three stumps with two bails in grooves across the tops, at which the bowler aims the ball.
b. the area between the wickets; the playing field.
c. one batsman's turn at the wicket.
d. the period during which two players bat together.
e. a batsman's inning that is not completed or not begun.
[1200–50; Middle English wiket < Anglo-French; Old French guischet]
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wicket

Three wooden stumps and two bails that rest on top of the stumps, 9 in wide, 2 ft 4 in high.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun 1. [画像:wicket - cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces]wicket - cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket
cricket equipment - sports equipment used in playing cricket
2. wicket - a small arch used as croquet equipment
croquet equipment - sports equipment used in playing croquet
3. wicket - small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door)
gate - a movable barrier in a fence or wall
4. [画像:wicket - small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted]wicket - small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted
opening - a vacant or unobstructed space that is man-made; "they left a small opening for the cat at the bottom of the door"
stump - (cricket) any of three upright wooden posts that form the wicket
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Translations
رُقْعَة الأرْض بين مَجموعَة الأقْواسقَوْس صَغيرَه في لُعْبَة الكريكيت
buegærde
krikettkapu
leiksvæîi milli marksúlnalota eins kylfings í krikketmarksúlur
varteliai
kriketa varti
bránka
kriket çubukları arasındaki yerüç çubuktan oluşan kalevuruş sırası

wicket

[ˈwɪkɪt]
A. N
1. (Cricket) (= stumps) → palos mpl; (= pitch) → terreno m; (= fallen wicket) → entrada f, turno m
to be on a sticky wicket → estar en un aprieto CRICKET
2. (also wicket gate) → postigo m, portillo m
B. CPD wicket keeper N (Cricket) → guardameta mf
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wicket

[ˈwɪkɪt] n (in cricket) (= set of sticks) → guichet m (= area) → espace compris entre les deux guichets
to take a wicket → éliminer un batteur wicket keeper wicket-keeper, wicketkeeper [ˈwɪkɪtkiːpər] n → gardien m de guichet
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wicket

n
→ Gatter nt; (for selling tickets) → Fenster nt
(Cricket) (= stumps: also wickets) → Wicket nt, → Pfostentor nt; (= pitch) → Spielbahn f; three wickets fell before lunch → es gab drei Wicketwürfe vor der Mittagspause ; we won by four wickets → wir gewannen und hatten vier Schlagmänner noch nicht in Einsatz gehabt; to keep wicket → Torwächter sein ? sticky
(US: = croquet hoop) → Tor nt
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wicket

[ˈwɪkɪt] (Cricket) n → porta
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wicket

(ˈwikit) noun
1. a hoop through which the balls are driven in the game of croquet or at which the ball is bowled in cricket. deurtjie قَوْس صَغيرَه في لُعْبَة الكريكيت крикет вратичка whicket branka das Tor bue; gærde στεφάνη palos värav (دروازه هاى فلزى کوتاه که گوى بايد از ان بگذرد(کروکه hila guichet שער विकेट vratašca (krikett)kapu gawang marksúlur wicket 三柱門 위켓, 삼주문 varteliai kriketa vārti wiket wicket bøyle bramka krykietowa !! added 2nd – boisko krykietowe !! added 3rd – runda كړ كۍ، دريچه، بارۍ (په لوى وره كې وړوكى ور) دورخ تمبه: (دكر كيټ په لوبه كې هغه دوه لرګي چې په منح كى يې توپ تيريږي): كر كټ (يوه لوبه ده): دكركټ (لوبې): ويكټ: دكر كټ ډګر whicket воротца (в крикете) bránka vratca pri kriketu vratanca båge, grind ห่วงบาสเกตบอล üç çubuktan oluşan kale (槌球、板球)三柱門 ворітця کرکٹ کی وکٹیں bộ ba thanh chắn trong cricket (板球)三柱门,(槌球)拱门
2. the ground between two sets of these rods. The wicket has dried out well. kolfblad رُقْعَة الأرْض بين مَجموعَة الأقْواس разстояние меежду две вратички cancela hřiště mezi brankami das Spielfeld arealet mellem to gærder terreno väravatevaheline ala زمین بازی کریکت hilojen väli wicket רְחַבַת הַשַעַר विकेट prostor između vratašaca tonggak leiksvæði milli marksúlna (lo spazio fra le due porte) 投球場 두 위켓 사이, 투구장(投球場) aikštė tarp vartelių (20 m ilgio) wiket pitch كر كيټ полоса травы между воротцами ihrisko medzi bránkami (v krikete) igrišče zemlja između vratanaca ช่อง kriket çubukları arasındaki yer 兩道三柱門之間的場地 ворітця دریچہ cửa thanh chắn 两座三柱门之间的场地
3. the ending of a batsman's period of batting. They scored fifty runs for (the loss of) one wicket. kolfbeurt نِهايَة فَتْرَة الضَّرْب من جانِب ضارِب الكُرَه край на батиране (não usado em português - not used in portuguese) doba hry jednoho pálkaře ein (etc.) Schläger, der noch nicht geschlagen hat gærde entrada, turno löögivoor چوگان lyöntivuoron loppu guichet סִיוּם זְמָן חֲבִיטָה बल्लेबाज के बल्लेबाजी की समाप्ति zadnji udarac u kriketu tanah di antara dua wicket lota eins kylfings í krikket wicket アウトになること 이닝, 타격 차례 žaidimo periodas nuo tada, kai paduodamas kamuolys, iki tada, kai kamuolio mušėjas turi išeiti wiket wicket ويكټ викет (конец очереди бьющего, выведенного из игры) (doba hry jedného hráča v krikete) završetak udarca การหมดรอบตีลูก vuruş sırası 擊球員擊球的一輪結束 ворітця بلے باز کی بلے بازی کا خاتمہ hết hiệp đấu 一个回合的结束,一局
ˈwicket-keeper noun
(in cricket) the fielder who stands immediately behind the wicket. paaltjiewagter حارِس بُوَيْب الويكيت крикет вратар defesa brankář der/die Torhüter(in) keeper defensa väravakaitsja دروازه بان hilavahti gardien qui se trouve derrière le guichet שוער वीकेटकीपर čuvar vrata kapus (krikettben) penjaga tonggak varnarleikmaður í krikket (giocatore che sta dietro la porta) 三柱門の守備者 (크리켓) 삼주문을 수비하는 사람 vartininkas vārtsargs (kriketā) penjaga wiket wicketkeeper gracz obstawiający bramkę دروازه ساتونكي defesa игрок, охраняющии воротца brankár (v krikete) vratar čuvar vratanca ผู้เล่นฝ่ายที่ขว้างลูกและคอยรับลูกอยู่หลังคานตีในกีฬาคริกเก็ต kaleci (板球)三柱門守球員 гравець, що захищає ворітця کرکٹ میں وکٹ کے پیچھے کھڑا کھلاڑی جو گیند روکتا ہے người chặn bóng (板球)三柱门的防守员,门将
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Old Bailey stepped up to the wicket, and called play, and the match has begun.
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I won the toss and after examining the wicket decided to take first knock.
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"No," answered the rabbit, "I'm merely the Keeper of the Wicket, and a person of little importance, although I try to do my duty.
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They had emerged upon this road through a narrow barred wicket in a high wall a little lower down.
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The ball flew from his hand straight and swift towards the centre stump of the wicket. The wary Dumkins was on the alert: it fell upon the tip of the bat, and bounded far away over the heads of the scouts, who had just stooped low enough to let it fly over them.
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Dolokhov, after Anatole entered, had remained at the wicket gate and was struggling with the yard porter who was trying to lock it.
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Oh, what larks!" Meanwhile the object of this hideous admiration approached the wicket, against which one of the keepers was leaning.
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What's the satisfaction of taking a man's wicket when you want his spoons?
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"Madam," said Saint Peter, rising and approaching the wicket, "whence do you come?"
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I hid my eyes, and leant my head against the stone frame of my door; but soon a slight noise near the wicket which shut in my tiny garden from the meadow beyond it made me look up.
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"Ah, bah!" said D'Artagnan; "you have at some wicket of the Louvre a CONCIERGE who is devoted to you, and who, thanks to a password, would--"
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When he had issued his instructions relative to every other part of the building, and the mob were dispersed from end to end, and busy at their work, he took a bundle of keys from a kind of cupboard in the wall, and going by a kind of passage near the chapel (it joined the governors house, and was then on fire), betook himself to the condemned cells, which were a series of small, strong, dismal rooms, opening on a low gallery, guarded, at the end at which he entered, by a strong iron wicket, and at its opposite extremity by two doors and a thick grate.
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