infield
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Noun
infield (plural infields)
- The area inside a racetrack or running track.
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 126:
- We left the carriage, bought programs, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock.
- 1929, Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms, Folio Society 2008, p. 126:
- A constrained scope or area.
- Let’s keep this problem in the infield.
- (agriculture) An area to cultivate: a field
- (baseball) 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.
- (baseball) (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
- Jones ran out an infield single.
- (cricket) The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
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The area inside a racetrack or running track.
A constrained scope or area.
baseball: The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
baseball: (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
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cricket: The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, etc.
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Verb
infield (third-person singular simple present infields, present participle infielding, simple past and past participle infielded)
Adverb
infield (comparative more infield, superlative most infield)
- Toward or into the infield.
- 2018 February 24, Paul Rees, “Finn Russell masterminds historic Scotland victory over England”, in The Guardian, London, archived from the original on 22 April 2018:
- [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.
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