different between innings vs opener

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n.??z/

Etymology 1

From the old verb inn (“to house corn”).

Noun

innings (plural innings)

1. (cricket) One side's (from when the first player begins to bat, until the last player is out) or individual player's turn to bat or the runs scored during those durations.
2. A comparable period of play in croquet or roque.
3. (Britain) The time during which any party is in possession of power, or enjoying good luck, etc.; a turn of any kind.
4. (Britain, euphemistic) A person's lifespan.
   • 1994, John Lehmann, Alan Ross, Sebastian Barker, The London Magazine

     Forty-odd. That's a better innings than Mozart's thirty-five. Only a moderate knock perhaps in an era brimming with space age technology, and transplants, and artificial hips etcet, but still higher than Mozart's.

   • 2007, Roger F. Peters, Police Under Pressure: A Donkey on the Edge, Roger Peters ?ISBN, page 22

     My mother-in-law died at 89 years of age, while sad and as you might expect, we used the phrase “she had a good innings”.

   • 2009, Mark Radcliffe, Thank You for the Days: A Boy's Own Adventures in Radio and Beyond, Simon and Schuster ?ISBN

     He was the first of my grandparents to die but none of them made it much past seventy, although that was very much looked on as 'a decent innings' in early-seventies England.

   • 2010, Jacqueline James M P, An Ignoble End, AuthorHouse ?ISBN, page 79

     You can only say, she had a good innings, so many times. I suppose seventy nine isn't so bad. It's a damn sight more than I can expect.

   • 2012, Peter Fitzpatrick, The Two Frank Thrings, Monash University Publishing ?ISBN, page 523

     Like father, like son. Sixty-eight. Not such a bad innings, really, when the old man was gone at fifty-three.

Usage notes

In British English, innings is used for both singular and plural, with the corresponding verb forms (e.g., "His innings is over."); inning is not heard except in connection with baseball or softball.

Etymology 2

Noun

innings

1. plural of inning

Anagrams

• sinning

Spanish

Noun

innings

1. plural of inning

English

Etymology

open +? -er

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p?n?/

Noun

opener (plural openers)

1. A person who opens something.
   • 1863, The British Controversialist: And Literary Magazine (page 122)

     Have you, like the opener of this debate, discovered, sapiently enough, that "the peace party, with Lord Aberdeen at their head, were the chief cause of the war"?

2. A device that opens something; specifically a tin-opener/can-opener, or a bottle opener.
3. (in combination) An establishment that opens.

   The late-night openers in the mall include two restaurants and a clothing store.

4. (card games) The player who starts the betting.
5. (card games, in the plural) Cards of sufficient value to enable a player to open the betting.
6. (metalworking) A person employed to separate sheets of hot metal that become stuck together.
7. (theater) The first act in a variety show or concert.
8. (cricket) A batsman who normally plays in the first two positions of an innings.
9. (colloquial) The first in a series of events, items etc.; the first remark or sentence of a conversation.
10. (sports) The first game played in a competition.
11. (sports) The first goal or point scored.
12. (fishing) A period of time when it is legal to commercially fish.
13. (baseball) A pitcher who specializes in getting the first outs of a game before being replaced, either by a long reliever or a pitcher who would normally start.

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Translations

Anagrams

• -perone, Perone, pereon, perone, poneer, reopen, repone