field


Meanings

  • 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
  • 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"
  • FIELD v -ED -ING, -S to play as a fielder


Scrabble Score: 9

field is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word

field is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary

field is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary


Words With Friends Score: 10

field is a valid Words With Friends word