fielding
backstop
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catcher
fine leg
gloveman
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bat-pad
third slip
die
short leg
baseperson
deep point
third man
infielder
catching
behind
point
first
baseballing
right field
first base
kittenball
rightfield
basebally
slips
outfielding
center field
sweeper
centerfield
ballfield
field restriction
return
scout
third base
position
third
hidden-ball trick
retire
put out
left field
leftfield
baserunning
passed ball
down
umpire
box
fielder's choice
play ball
baseballese
baseballdom
neighborhood play
baseball field
bowling
diamond
double play depth
ball field
baseball glove
back up
ground rule
long stop
territory
glovework
ballpark
gully
deep midwicket
catch
defensive field
airmail
berth
shortstop
snick
short
deuces wild
call balls and strikes
cordon
softball
push bunt
sacrifice
slash bunt
first baseman
first sacker
fielding average
baseball diamond
sacker
batting
second base
infield
basebally
down
baseballing
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catcher
fine leg
gloveman
fieldman
bat-pad
third slip
short leg
baseperson
deep point
third man
infielder
catching
behind
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first
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right field
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kittenball
rightfield
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outfielding
center field
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ballfield
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hidden-ball trick
left field
leftfield
baserunning
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box
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noun
- A catcher; the position of catcher.
- The player who stands immediately behind the striking base.
- Something serving to bolster or support a cover story etc.
- A thing or a person put in the rear or in the back of something to reinforce, hold, support.
- A wall or fence behind home plate.
- A default arrangement that holds if all else fails.
verb
verb
- play as a fielder
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- answer adequately or successfully
- select (a team or individual player) for a game
noun
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- a branch of knowledge
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- a particular environment or walk of life
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- extensive tract of level open land
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a place where planes take off and land
verb
- to be on base at the end of an inning, of a player
- pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
- suffer or face the pain of death
- be brought to or as if to the point of death by an intense emotion such as embarrassment, amusement, or shame
- stop operating or functioning
- feel indifferent towards
- languish as with love or desire
- cut or shape with a die
- lose sparkle or bouquet
- disappear or come to an end
- suffer spiritual death; be damned (in the religious sense)
noun
noun
- The catcher.
- In the Eton College field game, any of a group of players consisting of two "shorts" (who try to kick the ball over the bully) and a "long" (who defends the goal).
- The rear, back-end.
- The buttocks, bottom, butt.
- A one-point score.
prep
- As a result or consequence of.
- Responsible for, being the creator or controller of.
- After in developmental progress, score, grade, etc.; inferior to.
- After in time.
- In the past, from the viewpoint of.
- Concealed by (something serving as a facade or disguise).
- After in physical progress or distance.
- In support of.
- Underlying, being the reason for or explanation of.
- At or to the back or far side of.
adv
- Behind the scenes in a theatre; backstage.
- At or in the rear or back part of something.
- So as to come after someone or something in position, distance, advancement, ranking, time, etc.
- So as to be still in place after someone or something has departed or ceased to exist.
- In a rearward direction.
- Backward in time or order of succession; past.
adj
noun
- The position of the pitcher and catcher.
- The attitude assumed by a pointer dog when he finds game.
- A focus of conversation or consideration; the main idea.
- A particular moment in an event or occurrence; a juncture.
- Pointedness of speech or writing; a penetrating or decisive quality of expression.
- A tine or snag of an antler.
- Each of the main directions on a compass, usually considered to be 32 in number; a direction.
- A topic of discussion or debate; a proposition.
- A decimal point (now especially when reading decimal fractions aloud).
- A spot to which a straight run is made; hence, a straight run from point to point; a cross-country run.
- A peninsula or promontory.
- The position of the player of each side who stands a short distance in front of the goalkeeper.
- Any projecting extremity of an object.
- A full stop or other terminal punctuation mark.
- A specific location or place, seen as a spatial position.
- The position at the front or vanguard of an advancing force.
- A distinguishing quality or characteristic.
- a unit of measure equal to 1/12 of a pica, or approximately 1/72 of an inch (exactly 1/72 of an inch in the digital era).
- Each of the marks or strokes written above letters, especially in Semitic languages, to indicate vowels, stress etc.
- A purpose or objective, which makes something meaningful.
- Either of the two metal surfaces in a distributor which close or open to allow or prevent the flow of current through the ignition coil. There is usually a moving point, pushed by the distributor cam, and a fixed point, and they are built together as a unit.
- An object which has a sharp or tapering tip.
- A unit of measure for rain, equal to 0.254 mm or 0.01 of an inch.
- An operational or public leadership position in a risky endeavor.
- The difference between two points of the compass.
- A railroad switch.
- Something tiny, as a pinprick; a very small mark.
- An electric power socket.
- A movement executed with the sabre or foil.
- A unit of scoring in a game or competition.
- An individual element in a larger whole; a particular detail, thought, or quality.
- An area of contrasting colour on an animal, especially a dog; a marking.
- A short piece of cordage used in reefing sails.
- The act of pointing, as of the foot downward in certain dance positions.
- A dot or mark used to designate certain tones or time. In ancient music, it distinguished or characterized certain tones or styles (points of perfection, of augmentation, etc.). In modern music, it is placed on the right of a note to raise its value, or prolong its time, by one half.
- The sharp tip of an object.
- A string or lace used to tie together certain garments.
- A unit used to express differences in prices of stocks and shares.
- The perpendicular rising of a hawk over the place where its prey has gone into cover.
- A note; a tune.
- A zero-dimensional mathematical object representing a location in one or more dimensions; something considered to have position but no magnitude or direction.
- The gesture of extending the index finger in a direction in order to indicate something.
- A fielding position square of the wicket on the off side, between gully and cover.
- Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
- A tenth; formerly also a twelfth.
- One of the several different parts of the escutcheon.
- Lace worked by the needle.
- A unit of bearing equal to one thirty-second of a circle, i.e. 11.25°.
verb
- To give a point to; to sharpen; to cut, forge, grind, or file to an acute end.
- To repair mortar.
- To direct toward an object; to aim.
- To direct the central processing unit to seek information at a certain location in memory.
- To draw attention to something or indicate a direction.
- To face in a particular direction.
- To separate an integer from a decimal with a decimal point.
- To extend the index finger in the direction of something in order to show where it is or to draw attention to it.
- To indicate the presence of game by a fixed and steady look, as certain hunting dogs do.
- To mark with diacritics.
- To direct or encourage (someone) in a particular direction.
- To direct requests sent to a domain name to the IP address corresponding to that domain name.
- To fill up and finish the joints of (a wall), by introducing additional cement or mortar, and bringing it to a smooth surface.
- To indicate a probability of something.
- To cut, as a surface, with a pointed tool.
- To sail close to the wind.
- To approximate to the surface; to head.
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed at first of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- the first or highest in an ordering or series
- the first element in a countable series
- the time at which something is supposed to begin
- an honours degree of the highest class
- the lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving
adj
adj
- preceding all others in time or space or degree
- highest in pitch or chief among parts or voices or instruments or orchestra sections
adv
noun
- A fielding position along the boundary; a fielder in this position.
- A vacuum cleaner.
- A batsman who plays sweep shots.
- A carpet sweeper.
- A character designed or capable of knocking out multiple enemies in succession, usually due to a combination of high offense and high speed.
- A group of students tasked at cleaning the homeroom after class dismissal.
- One who sweeps floors or chimneys.
- A tree that has fallen over a river with branches extending into the water.
- A defender who is the last line of defence before the goalkeeper.
- A detector (for mines).
- One who sweeps.
- A person who sweeps the ice ahead of the rock in play.
- The last person in the line of hikers that is responsible for ensuring no one gets separated from the group.
- Any of the small, tropical marine perciform fishes of the family Pempheridae, typically with deeply keeled, compressed bodies and large eyes.
- A large-radius, or high/medium speed corner in a racing circuit, named as such because of the ability of someone to trace the corner profile via "sweeping" motion of the arm.
noun
- A throw from a fielder to the wicket-keeper or to another fielder at the wicket.
- The act of relinquishing control to the calling procedure.
- An answer.
- A return value: the data passed back from a called procedure.
- A return pipe, returning fluid to a boiler or other central plant (compare with flow pipe, which carries liquid away from a central plant).
- The act of catching a ball after a punt and running it back towards the opposing team.
- A return ticket.
- An item that is returned, e.g. due to a defect, or the act of returning it.
- An account, or formal report, of an action performed, of a duty discharged, of facts or statistics, etc.; especially, in the plural, a set of tabulated statistics prepared for general information.
- The continuation in a different direction, most often at a right angle, of a building, face of a building, or any member, such as a moulding; applied to the shorter in contradistinction to the longer.
- Gain or loss from an investment.
- A report of income submitted to a government for purposes of specifying exact tax payment amounts; a tax return.
- A carriage return character.
- The act of returning.
- A short perpendicular extension of a desk, usually slightly lower.
verb
- To throw a ball back to the wicket-keeper (or a fielder at that position) from somewhere in the field.
- To elect according to the official report of the election officers.
- To recur; to come again.
- To come or go back (to a place or person).
- To give in requital or recompense; to requite.
- To give something back to its original holder or owner.
- To report, or bring back and make known.
- To go back in thought, narration, or argument.
- To place or put back something where it had been.
- To bat the ball back over the net in response to a serve.
- To play a card as a result of another player's lead.
- To pass (data) back to the calling procedure.
- To say in reply; to respond.
- To take back something to a vendor for a complete or partial refund.
- To relinquish control to the calling procedure.
noun
- A fielder in a game for practice.
- A fighter aircraft.
- Term of address for a man or boy.
- An act of scouting or reconnoitering.
- A member of any number of youth organizations belonging to the international scout movement, such as the Boy Scouts of America or Girl Scouts of the United States.
- A person employed to monitor rivals' activities in the petroleum industry.
- A housekeeper or domestic cleaner, generally female, employed by one of the constituent colleges of Oxford University to clean rooms; generally equivalent to a modern bedder at Cambridge University.
- A preliminary image that allows the technician to make adjustments before the actual diagnostic images.
- The guillemot.
- A person who assesses and/or recruits others; especially, one who identifies promising talent on behalf of a sports team.
- A domestic servant, generally male, who would attend (usually several) students in a variety of ways, including cleaning; generally equivalent to a gyp at Cambridge University or a skip at Trinity College, Dublin.
- A person sent out to gain and bring in tidings; especially, one employed in war to gain information about the enemy and ground.
verb
noun
- A place on the playing field, together with a set of duties, assigned to a player.
- A commitment, or a group of commitments, such as options or futures, to buy or sell a given amount of financial instruments, such as securities, currencies or commodities, for a given price.
- The full state of a chess game at any given turn.
- A situation suitable to perform some action.
- The order in which players are seated around the table.
- A status or rank.
- A place or location.
- A method of solving a problem by one or two suppositions; also called the rule of trial and error.
- An opinion, stand, or stance.
- A posture.
- A post of employment; a job.
- An amount of securities, commodities, or other financial instruments held by a person, firm, or institution.
verb
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed near the third of the bases in the infield (counting counterclockwise from home plate)
- the base that must be touched third by a base runner in baseball
- one of three equal parts of a divisible whole
- following the second position in an ordering or series
- the musical interval between one note and another three notes away from it
- the third from the lowest forward ratio gear in the gear box of a motor vehicle
adj
adv
verb
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position
- withdraw from active participation
- pull back or move away or backward
- withdraw from circulation or from the market, as of bills, shares, and bonds
- break from a meeting or gathering
- make (someone) retire
- dispose of (something no longer useful or needed)
- lose interest
- cause to get out
- prepare for sleep
verb
- cause to be out on a fielding play
- to cause inconvenience or discomfort to
- put out considerable effort
- deprive of the oxygen necessary for combustion
- thrust or extend out
- put out, as of a candle or a light
- be sexually active
- retire
- prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
- administer an anesthetic drug to
adj
- being put out in a game of baseball
- extending or moving from a higher to a lower place
- becoming progressively lower
- understood perfectly
- lower than previously
- shut
- not functioning (temporarily or permanently)
- filled with melancholy and despondency
adv
- spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position
- away from a more central or a more northerly place
- paid in cash at time of purchase
- from an earlier time
- to a lower intensity
- in an inactive or inoperative state
noun
- soft fine feathers
- (American football) a complete play to advance the football
- (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil
- fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs)
adj
verb
verb
noun
- One of the two white-coated officials who preside over a cricket match.
- The official who presides over a tennis match sat on a high chair.
- One of the officials who preside over a baseball game.
- A match official on the ground deciding and enforcing the rules during play. As of 2007 the Australian Football League uses three; in the past there were two or just one. The other officials, the goal umpires and boundary umpires, are usually referred to by those phrases.
- The official who stands behind the line on the defensive side or next to the referee on the offensive side.
- A person who arbitrates between contending parties.
- The official who presides over a curling game.
noun
- any one of several designated areas on a ball field where the batter or catcher or coaches are positioned
- a (usually rectangular) container; may have a lid
- private area in a theater or grandstand where a small group can watch the performance
- the quantity contained in a box
- a predicament from which a skillful or graceful escape is impossible
- a rectangular drawing
- evergreen shrubs or small trees
- the driver's seat on a coach
- separate partitioned area in a public place for a few people
- a blow with the hand (usually on the ear)
verb
noun
- The action of propelling the ball towards the batsman.
- Candlepin bowling.
- A game played by rolling a ball down an alley and trying to knock over a triangular group of ten pins; ten-pin bowling/five-pin bowling
- A particular style of walking associated with urban street culture.
- Any of several similar games played indoors or outdoors.
- The action of the verb bowl.
- Road bowling.
noun
- the baseball playing field
- the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate
- a transparent piece of diamond that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem
- very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem
- a parallelogram with four equal sides; an oblique-angled equilateral parallelogram
- a playing card in the minor suit that has one or more red rhombuses on it
verb
- For a fielder to position himself behind the wicket (relative to a team-mate who is throwing the ball at the wicket) so as to stop the ball, and prevent overthrows.
- For the non-striker to take a few steps down the pitch, in preparation to taking a run, just as the bowler bowls the ball.
- To move backwards, especially for a vehicle to do so.
- To copy (data) so that it can be restored if the main copy is lost.
- To undo one's actions.
- To fill up because of a backlog.
- To halt the flow or movement of something.
- To provide support or the promise of support to.
- To reconsider one's thoughts.
- To move a vehicle backwards.
- Coordinate terms: back away, back off, stand back
noun
- The part of the playing field or board over which a player or team has control.
- An area of subject matter, knowledge, or experience.
- A geographic area under control of a single governing entity such as state or municipality; an area whose borders are determined by the scope of political power rather than solely by natural features such as rivers and ridges.
- A market segment or scope of professional practice over which an organization or type of practitioner has exclusive rights.
- One of three of Australia's federated entities, located in the country's north and southeast, with fewer powers than a state and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Northern Territory, Australian Capital Territory and Jervis Bay Territory.
- A large extent or tract of land; for example a region, country or district.
- An area that an animal of a particular species consistently defends against its conspecifics.
- A location or logical space which someone owns or controls.
- A geographic area that a person or organization is responsible for in the course of work.
- One of three of Canada's federated entities, located in the country's Arctic, with fewer powers than a province and created by an act of Parliament rather than by the Constitution: Yukon, Northwest Territories, and Nunavut.
noun
- A fielding position on the off side about 30 degrees behind square, between the slips and point; a fielder in such a position
- A road drain.
- A small valley.
- A trench, ravine or narrow channel which was worn by water flow, especially on a hillside.
- A grooved iron rail or tram plate.
- A large knife.
- A drop kerb.
- an alleyway or side street.
verb
verb
- To play (a specific period of time) as the catcher.
- To attract and hold (a faculty or organ of sense).
- To grasp mentally: perceive and understand.
- To unpleasantly discover unexpectedly; to unpleasantly surprise (someone doing something).
- To acquire, as though by infection; to take on through sympathy or infection.
- To make a grasping or snatching motion (at).
- To take or replenish something necessary, such as breath or sleep.
- Of fire, to spread or be conveyed to.
- To be held back or impeded.
- To get pregnant.
- To end a player's innings by catching a hit ball before the first bounce.
- To be the victim of (something unpleasant, painful etc.).
- To entrap or trip up a person; to deceive.
- To reach (someone) with a strike, blow, weapon etc.
- To be hit by something.
- To receive or be affected by (wind, water, fire etc.).
- To have something be held back or impeded.
- To contact a wave in such a way that one can ride it back to shore.
- To travel by means of.
- To become infected by (an illness).
- To reproduce or echo a spirit or idea faithfully.
- To serve well or poorly for catching, especially for catching fish.
- To seize or intercept an object moving through the air (or, sometimes, some other medium).
- To grip (the water) with one's oars at the beginning of the stroke.
- To become pregnant. (Only in past tense or as participle.)
- To charm or entrance.
- To grip or entangle.
- To handle an exception.
- To spread by infection or similar means.
- To take in; to watch or listen to (an entertainment).
- To engage with some mechanism; to stick, to succeed in interacting with something or initiating some process.
- To capture or snare (someone or something which would rather escape).
- To germinate and set down roots.
- To be touched or affected by (something) through exposure.
- To overtake or catch up to; to be in time for.
noun
- The act of noticing, understanding or hearing.
- A crick; a sudden muscle pain during unaccustomed positioning when the muscle is in use.
- A stopping mechanism, especially a clasp which stops something from opening.
- The game of catching a ball.
- A hesitation in voice, caused by strong emotion.
- A find, in particular a boyfriend or girlfriend or prospective spouse.
- A fragment of music or poetry.
- The act of catching a hit ball before it reaches the ground, resulting in an out.
- Passing opportunities seized; snatches.
- The act of catching an object in motion, especially a ball.
- The act of seizing or capturing.
- A type of humorous round in which the voices gradually catch up with one another; usually sung by men and often having bawdy lyrics.
- A slight remembrance; a trace.
- A crop which has germinated and begun to grow.
- The first contact of an oar with the water.
- A concealed difficulty, especially in a deal or negotiation.
- A player in respect of his catching ability; particularly one who catches well.
- A stoppage of breath, resembling a slight cough.
- The refrain; a line or lines of a song which are repeated from verse to verse.
- Something which is captured or caught.
noun
- position on the field of play
- A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside.
- Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.)
- A job or position, especially on a ship.
- Position or seed in a tournament bracket.
- A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc).
- A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park.
verb
noun
- the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base
- the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed
- accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference
adj
- primarily temporal sense; indicating or being or seeming to be limited in duration
- (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length
- low in stature; not tall; describing something or someone with a stature less than normal
- (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range
- not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices
- of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration
adj
- of insufficient quantity to meet a need
- less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so
- lacking foresight or scope
- tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening
- marked by rude or peremptory shortness
verb
adv
noun
- A play in which the batter is intentionally out so that one or more runners can advance around the bases.
- A loss of profit.
- The offering of anything to a god; a consecratory rite.
- Something sacrificed.
- The destruction or surrender of anything for the sake of something else; the devotion of something desirable to something higher, or to a calling deemed more pressing.
verb
- To advance (a runner on base) by batting the ball so it can be fielded, placing the batter out, but with insufficient time to put the runner out.
- To offer (something) as a gift to a deity.
- To give away (something valuable) to get at least a possibility of gaining something else of value (such as self-respect, trust, love, freedom, prosperity), or to avoid an even greater loss.
- To intentionally give up (a piece) in order to improve one’s position on the board.
- To destroy; to kill.
- To trade (a value of higher worth) for something of lesser worth in order to gain something else valued more, such as an ally or business relationship, or to avoid an even greater loss; to sell without profit to gain something other than money.
- To kill a test animal for autopsy.
noun
- A baseman (player positioned at or near a base).
- A person who fills or makes sacks or bags.
- Synonym of bagger (“retail employee who bags customers' purchases”)
- A person who sacks or plunders.
- A machine or device for filling sacks.
- A person who sacks or fires (dismisses someone from a job or position).
- A player who sacks (tackles the offensive quarterback behind the line of scrimmage before he is able to throw a pass).
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