Infield meaning

ĭn'fēld'
The area inside a racetrack or running track.
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A field located near a farmhouse.
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The land of a farm nearest the farmhouse.
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The area inside a racetrack or running track: field events of a track meet are often held on it.
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The area inside a racetrack or running track.
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A constrained scope or area.

Let’s keep this problem in the infield.

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(agriculture) An area to cultivate: a field.
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(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.

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(baseball) (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.

Jones ran out an infield single.

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(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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To inclose (a piece of land); make a field of.
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Origin of infield

  • From in- +‎ field.
    From Wiktionary

Infield Sentence Examples

  • " The infield (where wheat is sown) is generally divided by the tenant into four divisions or breaks, as they call them, viz.

  • The farm-rooms in East Lothian, as in other districts, were divided into infield and outfield.

  • All-Star Sports pitched in their own atmosphere with a baseball infield shaped swimming pool.

  • infield area will have a macadam surface.

  • Although metal pronged cleats are dependable when you're running around the infield or catching fly balls way out in right field, the disadvantage of metal baseball cleats is often the same as the initial advantage.

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