inning

Plural: innings

Noun

• A division of a baseball game; a turn at play.
• (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
• 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.
• A similar period of play.
• A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
• A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
• The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
• Lands recovered from the sea.

Verb

• present participle and gerund of inn

Examples

• In the final inning of Words With Friends, every point counted more than ever.
• It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.
• We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.
• We batted around in our half of the inning.

Synonyms

frame

Related Words

first half of an inning, second half of an inning