infield

名词 n. 动词 v. 副词 adv.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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.
  2. A constrained scope or area.
    — Let’s keep this problem in the infield.
  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.
    — They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.
  5. (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
    — Jones ran out an infield single.
  6. The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
动词 v.
  1. To enclose (a piece of land); make a field of. transitive
副词 adv.
  1. 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.

词形变化

infields plural infields present,singular,third-person infielding participle,present infielded participle,past infielded past more infield comparative most infield superlative

词源

词源 1
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.
词源 2
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.
词源 3
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.
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