field

Plural: fields

Noun

• a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
  • "he planted a field of wheat"
• a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
  • "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
• 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"
• a branch of knowledge
• the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
• a particular kind of commercial enterprise
  • "they are outstanding in their field"
• a particular environment or walk of life
• a piece of land prepared for playing a game
  • "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
• extensive tract of level open land
  • "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
  • "the set of all rational numbers is a field"
• a region in which active military operations are in progress
  • "the army was in the field awaiting action"
• all of the horses in a particular horse race
• all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
• a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
  • "the diamond fields of South Africa"
• (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
• the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
• a place where planes take off and land
• A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
• A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
• The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
• A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
• A region containing a particular mineral.
• An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
• A place where competitive matches are carried out.
• A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
• A place where competitive matches are carried out.
• An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
• A place where competitive matches are carried out.
• An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
• The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
• A place where competitive matches are carried out.
• An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
• The outfield.
• A place where competitive matches are carried out.
• A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
• A place where competitive matches are carried out.
• A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
• A place where competitive matches are carried out.
• All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• Any of certain structures serving cognition.
• The extent of a given perception.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• Any of certain structures serving cognition.
• A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• Any of certain structures serving cognition.
• A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• Any of certain structures serving cognition.
• An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• Any of certain structures serving cognition.
• A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
• The background of the shield.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
• The background of the flag.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
• The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
• A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
• A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
• An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
• Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
• Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
• Archaic form of fielder.

Verb

Verb Forms: fielded, fielding, fields

• To catch or pick up a ball in play; to answer questions.
• catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
• play as a fielder
• answer adequately or successfully
  • "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
• select (a team or individual player) for a game
  • "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
• To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
• To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
• To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
• To answer; to address.
• To execute research (in the field).
• To deploy in the field.

Examples

• A crop circle was made in a corn field.
• an oil field; a gold field
• field of view
• Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists.
• He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.
• He needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted.
• He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.
• magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field
• She had to FIELD a challenge after her questionable play of ’ZA’.
• She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
• soccer field
• Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.
• The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
• The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
• The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.
• The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and shipping address.
• The set of rational numbers, #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;, is the prototypical field.
• There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
• There were some cows grazing in a field.
• This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.
• to field a new land-mine detector
• Whereas a ring has three binary operators: (1) an additive operator, (2) a subtractive operator, and (3) a multiplicative operator, a field has four binary operators: the three ring binary operators and (4) a divisive operator. (N.B.: Only the additive and multiplicative operators are axiomatic. The subtractive operator may be derived by combining the additive and the unary negative operators; the divisive operator may be derived by combining the multiplicative and the unary inversive operators.)

Synonyms

airfield, area, arena, athletic field, bailiwick, battlefield, battleground, champaign, discipline, domain, field of battle, field of force, field of honor, field of operation, field of operations, field of study, field of view, flying field, force field, landing field, line of business, orbit, plain, playing area, playing field, sphere, study, subject, subject area, subject field, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations, address, answer, box, course, court, deal with, ground, input field, pitch, realm, respond to

Antonyms

bat

Related Words

Field in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)