Definitions for inning

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inning in·ning

Spelling: [in-ing]

IPA: /ˈɪn ɪŋ/

Inning is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 16 anagrams from letters in inning (giinnn).

Definitions for inning

noun

1. Baseball. a division of a game during which each team has an opportunity to score until three outs have been made against it.
2. a similar opportunity to score in certain other games, as horseshoes.
3. an opportunity for activity; a turn:
4. innings, (used with a singular verb) 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. land reclaimed, especially from the sea.
5. the act of reclaiming marshy or flooded land.
6. enclosure, as of wasteland.
7. the gathering in of crops.
8. Usually, ins. persons in office or political power (distinguished from outs).
9. a member of the political party in power:
10. pull or influence; a social advantage or connection:
11. (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) a return or service that lands within the in-bounds limits of a court or section of a court (opposed to out).

Idioms

1. be in for, to be bound to undergo something, especially a disagreeable experience:
2. in for it, Slang. about to suffer chastisement or unpleasant consequences, especially of one's own actions or omissions: Also, British, for it.
3. in that, because; inasmuch as:
4. in with, on friendly terms with; familiar or associating with:

adverb

1. in or into some place, position, state, relation, etc.:
2. on the inside; within.
3. in one's house or office.
4. in office or power.
5. in possession or occupancy.
6. having the turn to play, as in a game.
7. Baseball. (of an infielder or outfielder) in a position closer to home plate than usual; short:
8. on good terms; in favor:
9. in vogue; in style:
10. in season:

adjective

1. located or situated within; inner; internal:
2. Informal. in favor with advanced or sophisticated people; fashionable; stylish: comprehensible only to a special or ultrasophisticated group:
3. well-liked; included in a favored group.
4. inward; incoming; inbound:
5. plentiful; available.
6. being in power, authority, control, etc.:
7. playing the last nine holes of an eighteen-hole golf course (opposed to out):

preposition

1. (used to indicate inclusion within space, a place, or limits):
2. (used to indicate inclusion within something abstract or immaterial):
3. (used to indicate inclusion within or occurrence during a period or limit of time):
4. (used to indicate limitation or qualification, as of situation, condition, relation, manner, action, etc.):
5. (used to indicate means):
6. (used to indicate motion or direction from outside to a point within) into:
7. (used to indicate transition from one state to another):
8. (used to indicate object or purpose):

verb (used with object)

1. to enclose.

Origin of inning

before 900; Middle English inninge, Old English innung a getting in, equivalent to inn(ian) to go in + -ung -ing¹

Examples for inning

But the first inning had ended one to nothing in Camden's favor.

There is his superstition about watching every Red Sox game but never the sixth inning.

End: like an inning in baseball, except shorter and with less spitting.

And the game was won by the pitcher who had taken Springer's place in the fifth inning.

Eliot, removing his cage at the end of the inning, looked for Springer and found him.

Your great pup-pitcher, Newbert, was batted out in the fifth inning.

In the 2001 ALDS, the Yankees led the Oakland Athletics 1-0 in the seventh inning.

The sixth inning was over before Springer reached the Oakdale bench.

In the 13th inning, a Red Sox batter popped one down left field line and Jeter went to get it.

Estimates are that by the fourth inning of his second start the cost was covered.