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PUTOUT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An out resulting from a fielding play (not a strikeout)
Example:
the first baseman made 15 putouts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("putout" is a kind of...):
out ((baseball) a failure by a batter or runner to reach a base safely in baseball)
Domain category:
ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "putout"):
force; force-out; force out; force play (a putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base)
fielder's choice (a play made on a ground ball in which the fielder chooses to put out an advancing runner instead of the batter)
sacrifice ((baseball) an out that advances the base runners)
Derivation:
put out (retire)
put out (cause to be out on a fielding play)
