EGAVE

inning

About 0.69 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun 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.
    It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.
  2. noun A similar period of play.
    We batted around in our half of the inning.
  3. noun A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
  4. noun A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
    We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.
  5. noun The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
  6. noun Lands recovered from the sea.
  7. verb present participle and gerund of inn

Similar words

frame baseman hitter batter tour handle shutout sleeve bottom batting

Often followed by

of and with game to when in was stretch

Word family

innings

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