BATTING ORDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does batting order mean? 

• BATTING ORDER (noun)
  The noun BATTING ORDER has 1 sense:

1. (baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat

  Familiarity information: BATTING ORDER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BATTING ORDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(baseball) a list of batters in the order in which they will bat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

batting order; card; lineup

Context example:

the managers presented their cards to the umpire at home plate

Hypernyms ("batting order" is a kind of...):

roll; roster (a list of names)

Meronyms (parts of "batting order"):

cleanup; cleanup position; cleanup spot ((baseball) the fourth position in the batting order (usually filled by the best batter on the team))

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)

 Context examples 

Using a new computer model, the two types of information were combined to determine the volcanic equivalent of a batting order for Arsia Mons' 29 vents.

(Mars Volcano, Earth's Dinosaurs Went Extinct About the Same Time, NASA)