fields

Noun

• United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)
• a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
• 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
• 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
• a particular environment or walk of life
• a piece of land prepared for playing a game
• 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
• a region in which active military operations are in progress
• 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
• plural of field

Verb

• catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
• play as a fielder
• answer adequately or successfully
• select (a team or individual player) for a game
• third-person singular simple present indicative of field

Synonyms

airfield, area, arena, athletic field, bailiwick, battlefield, battleground, champaign, discipline, domain, field, 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, W. C. Fields, William Claude Dukenfield