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Inning
WordNet
noun
(1) A period of play in baseball during which each team has a turn at bat
WiktionaryText
Etymology
, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.
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 chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
- We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.