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STRIKE ZONE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(baseball) the area over home plate between a batter's knees and shoulders through which a pitch must pass in order to be called a strike
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("strike zone" is a kind of...):
zone (an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic)
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)