Inking vs Inning - What's the difference?
inking | inning |
An application of ink.
* 1900 , Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office (page 175)
(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.
(softball) A similar period of play.
(billiards) 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.
(obsolete) Harvested crop.
* Richarde Iugge, Anno Quinto Reginae Elizabethe :
(obsolete) Lands recovered from the sea.
As nouns the difference between inking and inning
is that inking is an application of ink while inning is (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.As a verb inking
is .inking
English
Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- In a rotary printing-machine, a cylinder carrying a single relief design, means for imparting successive complete inkings to said design
inning
English
Noun
(en noun)- It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.
- We batted around in our half of the inning .
- We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.
- [...] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, [...]
- (Ainsworth)