Inning vs Innings - What's the difference?
inning | innings |
(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.
(baseball) English plurals
(cricket) One side's or individual's turn to bat (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out,) or the runs scored during those timeframes.
(British) The time during which any party is in possession of power; a turn of any kind.
In baseball terms the difference between inning and innings
is that inning is 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 innings is plural of inningCategory:English plurals.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)