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In baseball and softball, an inning is one of the chunks the game is cut into — usually nine. In each inning, both teams get a turn to bat (the top and the bottom). If the score is still even after nine, they play extra innings. The word is a kind of mistake that stuck. Cricket already had innings, and that form is singular as well as plural: one team's turn at batting is an innings. People heard innings, thought it was a plural, and cut off the -s to make inning for one time period. Baseball kept the new short word; cricket kept innings.
局（棒球、壘球的一局）
組成Back-formation from innings: people mistook innings for a plural of the time period, not for the batters' turn at the crease, and made inning for one period.
同家族的字
- inningsthe older cricket word; inning was cut from it as if innings were a plural
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
inningnoun詞源 1/ˈɪnɪŋ/
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ball-gamesbaseballgamesA 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.
- It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.
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ball-gamesgameshobbiesA similar period of play.
- We batted around in our half of the inning.
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ball-gamesbilliardsgamesA player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
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A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
- We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.
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obsoleteThe gathering of a crop; harvesting.
- […] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, […]
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obsoleteLands recovered from the sea.
- One of the earliest ‘innings’ of Walland Marsh, after the Norman Conquest,‥has been ever since called Becket's Innings, as this Archbishop has the credit of promoting it.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。