Winning vs Inning - What's the difference?
winning | inning |
That constitutes a win.
That leads to success.
Attractive.
The act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition.
(chiefly, in the plural) The money, etc., gained by success in competition or contest, especially in gambling.
* Chaucer
(mining) A new opening.
The portion of a coalfield out for working.
(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 winning and inning
is that winning is the act of obtaining something, as in a contest or by competition while 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.As a verb winning
is present participle of lang=en.As an adjective winning
is that constitutes a win.winning
English
Verb
(head)- Our horse was winning the race, but fell back just before the finish line.
Derived terms
* winningsAdjective
(en-adj)- the winning entry in the competition
- the winning lotto numbers
- a winning formula, strategy, etc.
- a winning smile
Noun
(en noun)- Ye seek land and sea for your winnings .
See also
* winnings * winningest ----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)