innings

«innings» in Mova's school dictionary: a team's turn to bat, or one player's turn at batting — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (an innings, innings; inning, innings in baseball)

meaning for a pupil

1) In cricket, an innings is a team's turn to bat, or one player's turn at batting. tree →

2) In baseball (US, Canada) an inning is one of the nine parts of the game in which both teams bat once. tree →

3) (informal, UK, Australia) Having a good innings means having had a long life or a long time doing something. tree →

sense in the lessons

In cricket and baseball, scores are counted per innings; children add runs to find totals. In everyday talk about old people: "He had a good innings" (gently said after someone dies at an old age). Phrases: first innings, second innings, a good innings, top of the inning.

examples

• England scored 300 runs in their first innings. tree →
• He made 45 runs in his innings. tree →
• The game is in the ninth inning. tree →
• Each team has two innings in a test match. tree →
• Grandad lived to 95; he had a good innings. tree →
• Our team scored 4 runs in the third inning. tree →
• The innings ended when the tenth batter was out. tree →
• Add the runs from both innings to get the total. tree →

note

In cricket, "innings" is both singular and plural: "an innings", "two innings". In baseball, singular "inning", plural "innings". "A good innings" is a gentle euphemism about a long life.

In the corpora

• «A good innings» is a saying from cricket that means a long, full life.

Trees and pragmatics

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