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# baseball

«baseball» in Mova's school dictionary: **a game where two teams of 9 take turns to hit a ball with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (baseball, baseballs)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Baseball is a game where two teams of 9 take turns to hit a ball with a bat and run around four bases. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#m1)

2) A baseball is the hard, white ball used in this game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

the ball counted, or the game, with cards, players, runs and innings; a popular sport in the USA and Canada; phrases «baseball cap», «baseball card», «baseball bat», «baseball team»

### examples

- He has 45 baseball cards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#x1)
- A baseball team has 9 players. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#x2)
- The team scored 6 runs in the baseball game. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#x3)
- She bought 3 baseballs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#x4)
- He wears his baseball cap backward. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#x5)
- A baseball game usually has 9 innings. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#x6)
- We went to a baseball game at the stadium. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#x7)
- She hit the baseball over the fence. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#x8)
- Baseball is played in spring and summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#x9)
- The batter has three strikes before he is out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/#x10)

### note

Often part of «baseball cards» or «baseball team», which name what is counted. Trap: a team has 9 players on the field. A game has 9 innings.

### In the corpora

- [In baseball and softball the batter wears a helmet and drops the bat after hitting, never throwing it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/248-soccer-american-football-and-baseball/15/)
- [Popular sports in France include football, rugby, tennis, cycling, handball and judo; baseball is rare there.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/23-hobbies-and-sport/12/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «baseball» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/baseball/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.