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infield

noun

Meaning

  • The area inside a racetrack or running track.

  • 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

Meaning

  • To enclose (a piece of land); make a field of.

adverb

Meaning

  • Toward or into the infield.