noun
- A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
- usage: "he planted a field of wheat"
- synonyms: field
- A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought.
- usage: "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
- synonyms: battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field
- Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected.
- usage: "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"
- synonyms: field
- A branch of knowledge.
- usage: "in what discipline is his doctorate"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
- synonyms: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick
- The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it.
- synonyms: field, field of force, force field
- A particular kind of commercial enterprise.
- usage: "they are outstanding in their field"
- synonyms: field, field of operation, line of business
- A particular environment or walk of life.
- usage: "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"
- A piece of land prepared for playing a game.
- usage: "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
- synonyms: playing field, athletic field, playing area, field
- Extensive tract of level open land.
- usage: "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
- Mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1. (
- usage: "the set of all rational numbers is a field"
- synonyms: field
- A region in which active military operations are in progress.
- usage: "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
- synonyms: field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations
- All of the horses in a particular horse race.
- synonyms: field
- All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event.
- synonyms: field
- A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found.
- usage: "the diamond fields of South Africa"
- synonyms: field
- Computer science. ( a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information)
- synonyms: field
- The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument.
- synonyms: field, field of view
- A place where planes take off and land.
- synonyms: airfield, landing field, flying field, field
- United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946.
- synonyms: W. C. Fields, William Claude Dukenfield
verb
- Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.
- synonyms: field
- Play as a fielder.
- synonyms: field
- Answer adequately or successfully.
- usage: "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
- synonyms: field
- Select (a team or individual player) for a game.
- usage: "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
- synonyms: field
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