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Inning vs Tinning - What's the difference?

inning | tinning |

As nouns the difference between inning and tinning

is that 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 while tinning is a covering or lining of tin.

As a verb tinning is

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inning

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.
  • (softball) A similar period of play.
    • We batted around in our half of the inning .
  • (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.
    • We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.
  • (obsolete) Harvested crop.
  • * Richarde Iugge, Anno Quinto Reginae Elizabethe :
    • [...] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, [...]
  • (obsolete) Lands recovered from the sea.
    • (Ainsworth)

    Related terms

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

    tinning

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A covering or lining of tin.
  • * 1852 , The Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal: Volume 77 (page 175)
    • he admits that sometimes poisonings produced by utensils with worn tinnings are not caused by saturnine colic.
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