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Infield
//ˈɪnfiːld// adv, noun, verb
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 Toward or into the infield.
"[Huw] Jones was also involved in the second try, which started when [Finn] Russell received the ball near his own 22 and immediately detected that England’s defence was narrow, with Jonny May having strayed infield."
Noun
- 1 The area inside a racetrack or running track.
"We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock."
- 2 the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate wordnet
- 3 A constrained scope or area.
"Let’s keep this problem in the infield."
- 4 An area to cultivate: a field
- 5 The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
"They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain."
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- 6 (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
"Jones ran out an infield single."
- 7 The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
Verb
- 1 To enclose (a piece of land); make a field of. transitive
Etymology
Etymology 1
From in- + field.
Etymology 2
From in- + field.
Etymology 3
From in- + field.
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