baseball

«baseball» in Mova's school dictionary: a game where two teams of 9 take turns to hit a ball with… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (baseball, baseballs)

meaning for a pupil

1) Baseball is a game where two teams of 9 take turns to hit a ball with a bat and run around four bases. tree →

2) A baseball is the hard, white ball used in this game. tree →

sense in the lessons

the ball counted, or the game, with cards, players, runs and innings; a popular sport in the USA and Canada; phrases «baseball cap», «baseball card», «baseball bat», «baseball team»

examples

• He has 45 baseball cards. tree →
• A baseball team has 9 players. tree →
• The team scored 6 runs in the baseball game. tree →
• She bought 3 baseballs. tree →
• He wears his baseball cap backward. tree →
• A baseball game usually has 9 innings. tree →
• We went to a baseball game at the stadium. tree →
• She hit the baseball over the fence. tree →
• Baseball is played in spring and summer. tree →
• The batter has three strikes before he is out. tree →

note

Often part of «baseball cards» or «baseball team», which name what is counted. Trap: a team has 9 players on the field. A game has 9 innings.

In the corpora

• In baseball and softball the batter wears a helmet and drops the bat after hitting, never throwing it.
• Popular sports in France include football, rugby, tennis, cycling, handball and judo; baseball is rare there.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «baseball» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.