Appeal play


Baseball. an appeal by the team in the field to the umpire regarding a possible base-running infraction, such as failure to touch a base or leaving it to score before a fly is caught, that is considered only when the defending team tags the runner or base in question before making the appeal.

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  • Appealability

    an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea. a request or reference to some person or authority for a decision, corroboration, judgment, etc. Law. an application or proceeding for review by a higher tribunal. (in a legislative body or assembly) a formal question as to the correctness of a ruling by […]

  • Appealer

    an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea. a request or reference to some person or authority for a decision, corroboration, judgment, etc. Law. an application or proceeding for review by a higher tribunal. (in a legislative body or assembly) a formal question as to the correctness of a ruling by […]

  • Appealing

    evoking or attracting interest, desire, curiosity, sympathy, or the like; attractive. an earnest request for aid, support, sympathy, mercy, etc.; entreaty; petition; plea. a request or reference to some person or authority for a decision, corroboration, judgment, etc. Law. an application or proceeding for review by a higher tribunal. (in a legislative body or assembly) […]

  • Appealingness

    evoking or attracting interest, desire, curiosity, sympathy, or the like; attractive. Historical Examples His appealingness had for the instant soothed that angry devil in her. Rose MacLeod Alice Brown adjective attractive or pleasing mid-15c. as a noun, “action of petitioning a higher court or authority,” verbal noun from appeal (v.). Adjectival sense of “attractive” attested […]

  • Appealingly

    evoking or attracting interest, desire, curiosity, sympathy, or the like; attractive. Contemporary Examples The idea behind the labeling of GMOs is simple, logical, and appealingly democratic. Whole Foods’ Anti-GMO Swindle Michael Schulson September 14, 2014 “People are surprised,” he recently told The Dallas Morning News in appealingly self-aware, self-deprecating mode. A George W. Bush Comeback? […]


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