inning

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. A similar period of play.
    — We batted around in our half of the inning.
  3. A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
  4. 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. The gathering of a crop; harvesting. obsolete
    — […] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, […]
  6. Lands recovered from the sea. obsolete
    — One of the earliest ‘innings’ of Walland Marsh, after the Norman Conquest,‥has been ever since called Becket's Innings, as this Archbishop has the credit of promoting it.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of inn form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

innings plural

词汇关系

衍生词
extra inning ninth-inning seventh inning stretch
相关词
first half of an inning second half of an inning

词源

Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.
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