inning
/ˈɪnɪŋ/
inning 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. Also the present participle and gerund of inn.
Noun
inning (plural innings)
- 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.
- A similar period of play.
- We batted around in our half of the inning.
- 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.
- We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.
- The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
- […] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, […]1563, Richarde Jugge, Anno Quinto Reginae Elizabethe
- Lands recovered from the sea.
- 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.1880, Archaeologia Cantiana
Also used as
inning is also the present participle and gerund of inn.
inning meaning in Punjabi and Nepali
inning in Punjabi
- ਇੰਨੀਸਿੰਗ
inning in Nepali
- इनिङ
Examples of inning in a sentence
- His solo shot in the seventh inning ended up winning the game.
- Only three cricketers have taken all 10 poles in a Test innings.
- The pitcher gave up the go-ahead run in the top of the ninth inning.
Forms of inning
| plural | innings |
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Origin of inning
Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.
Words formed from inning
Phrases with inning
Words that rhyme with inning
Questions about inning
- What does inning mean?
- Inning means 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.
- What is inning in Punjabi?
- Inning in Punjabi is ਇੰਨੀਸਿੰਗ. See Inning meaning in Punjabi.
- What part of speech is inning?
- Inning is a noun.
- How do you pronounce inning?
- Inning is pronounced /ˈɪnɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of inning?
- The plural of inning is innings.
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Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inning (page history and authors); inning (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inning (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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