field

Nouns

• (n) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
  • he planted a field of wheat
• (n) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
  • they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
  battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor,
• (n) somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
  • anthropologists do much of their work in the field
• (n) a branch of knowledge
  • in what discipline is his doctorate?
  • teachers should be well trained in their subject
  • anthropology is the study of human beings
  discipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, study,
• (n) the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it field of force, force field,
• (n) a particular kind of commercial enterprise
  • they are outstanding in their field
  field of operation, line of business,
• (n) a particular environment or walk of life
  • his social sphere is limited
  • it was a closed area of employment
  • he's out of my orbit
  arena, domain, sphere, orbit, area,
• (n) a piece of land prepared for playing a game
  • the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
  athletic field, playing area, playing field,
• (n) extensive tract of level open land
  • they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
  • he longed for the fields of his youth
  champaign, plain,
• (n) (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
  • the set of all rational numbers is a field
• (n) a region in which active military operations are in progress
  • the army was in the field awaiting action
  • he served in the Vietnam theater for three years
  field of operations, theater of operations, theatre of operations, theater, theatre,
• (n) all of the horses in a particular horse race
• (n) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
• (n) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
  • the diamond fields of South Africa
• (n) (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
• (n) the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) field of view,
• (n) a place where planes take off and land airfield, flying field, landing field,

Verbs

• (v) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
• (v) play as a fielder
• (v) answer adequately or successfully
  • The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
• (v) select (a team or individual player) for a game
  • The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl

Synonyms

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