Infield definition

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The area inside a racetrack or running track.
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A field located near a farmhouse.
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The area of the field bounded by home plate and first, second, and third bases.
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The defensive positions of first base, second base, third base, and shortstop considered as a unit.
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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 square area enclosed by the four base lines on a baseball field.
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The infielders collectively, or the area covered by them.
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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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Other Word Forms

Noun

Singular:
infield
Plural:
infields

Origin of infield

  • From in- +‎ field.

    From Wiktionary

Infield Sentence Examples

  • However, Paul Parry was fit again and replaced him with Langley moving infield.

  • Either runs weren't made (Halle, Maybury) or runs came infield (Bruno) and left them too few options.

  • Twelve minutes into the half, James Brooks skilfully gathered a clearance kick and moved the ball infield to Hoadley.

  • The game is played on a dirt infield and grass outfield called a diamond.

  • Farms were divided into infield and outfield; corn crops followed one another without the intervention of fallow, cultivated herbage or turnips, though something is said about fallowing the outfield; enclosures were very rare; the tenantry had not begun to emerge from a state of great poverty and depression; and the wages of labour, compared with the price of corn, were much lower than at present, though that price, at least in ordinary years, must appear extremely moderate in our times.

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