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[ in-ing ]

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noun

Baseball. a division of a game during which each team has an opportunity to score until three outs have been made against it.
a similar opportunity to score in certain other games, as horseshoes.
an opportunity for activity; a turn:
Now the opposition will have its inning.
innings, (used with a singular verb)
1. Cricket. a unit of play in which each team has a turn at bat, the turn of a team ending after ten players are put out or when the team declares.
2. land reclaimed, especially from the sea.
the act of reclaiming marshy or flooded land.
enclosure, as of wasteland.
the gathering in of crops.

inning

/ ˈɪ��ɪŋ /

noun

baseball a division of the game consisting of a turn at bat and a turn in the field for each side
archaic.
the reclamation of land from the sea

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Word History and Origins

Origin of inning¹

before 900; Middle English inninge, Old English innung a getting in, equivalent to inn ( ian ) to go in + -ung -ing ¹

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Word History and Origins

Origin of inning¹

Old English innung a going in, from innian to go in

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The right-hander pitched a creditable 5-2/3 innings, giving up three runs and two hits while striking out four and walking two, leaving with the score tied 3-3.

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Freeman hit Skenes’ only mistake of the day — a hanging curveball over the center of the plate — into the right field corner for a double in the fourth inning.

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Trump during the early innings of his second presidency followed through on various campaign pledges, introducing new tariffs and dialing up the rhetoric against China and other U.S. trading partners.

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Oaks Christian 3, Santa Paula 2: The Lions scored all their runs in the sixth inning.

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Santa Margarita 5, JSerra 1: A three-run triple by Warren Gravely IV in the top of the ninth inning keyed the Eagles’ Trinity League win.

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