infield
adverb
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L192880 on Wikidata ↗noun
- playing field section in baseball and cricket
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈɪnfiːld/ / /ɪnˈfiːld/
adv
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English field English infield From in- + field.
- 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
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English field English infield From in- + field.
- 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.”
- A constrained scope or area.
“Let’s keep this problem in the infield.”
- An area to cultivate: a field
- 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.”
- (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
“Jones ran out an infield single.”
- The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
verb
Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *né Proto-Indo-European *n̥- Proto-Italic *n̥- Latin in-bor. Middle English in- English in- English field English infield From in- + field.
- To enclose (a piece of land); make a field of.