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発音

• IPA: /ˈɪnɪŋ/
• 韻: -ɪnɪŋ

名詞

inning (plural innings)

1. (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.

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

2. (softball) A similar period of play.

   We batted around in our half of the inning.

3. (billiards) 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. (obsolete) The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
   • 1563, Richarde Jugge, Anno Quinto Reginae Elizabethe:

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

6. (obsolete) Lands recovered from the sea.
   • 1880, Archaeologia Cantiana:

     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.

派生語

関連する語

• top: (baseball, softball) first half of an inning
• bottom: (baseball, softball) second half of an inning

派生した語

• → Japanese: イニング (iningu)
• → Korean: 이닝 (ining)

語源 2

動詞

inning

1. present participle and gerund of inn