Meaning of Infield | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The area inside a racetrack or running track.
2. A constrained scope or area.
3. An area to cultivate: a field
4. The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
5. (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
6. 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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Examples

“We left the carriage, bought programmes, and walked across the infield and then across the smooth thick turf of the course to the paddock.”

“Let’s keep this problem in the infield.”

“They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.”

“Jones ran out an infield single.”

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