Inning

Quick meaning: Inning is a noun meaning (softball) A similar period of play.

Meaning

(softball) A similar period of play.

More Meanings

1. (billiards) A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
2. A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
3. present participle and gerund of inn
4. (baseball) A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
5. (obsolete) The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
6. (obsolete) Lands recovered from the sea.

Example Sentences

We batted around in our half of the inning.

[…] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, […]

We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.

It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.

Word Forms

• innings

Synonyms for inning

Depending on context, synonyms include frame.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frame, baseman, hitter, batter, tour, handle.

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