Field
nounNoun
a particular kind of commercial enterprise
“they are outstanding in their field”
Type of:Businessa piece of land prepared for playing a game
“the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field”
Type of:ParcelTractextensive tract of level open land
“he longed for the fields of his youth”
Type of:GroundLandEartha region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
“they made a tour of Civil War battlefields”
Similar:BattlefieldBattlegroundType of:ParcelTracta region in which active military operations are in progress
“the army was in the field awaiting action”
Type of:Regiona geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
“the diamond fields of South Africa”
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
“he planted a field of wheat”
Type of:ParcelTract(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”
Type of:Setsomewhere (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”
Type of:Regiona branch of knowledge
Type of:Domainthe area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
a particular environment or walk of life
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
a place where planes take off and land
Similar:AirfieldType of:FacilityInstallationall of the horses in a particular horse race
Type of:Setall the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
Type of:Set(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
Type of:Set
Verb
answer adequately or successfully
“The lawyer fielded all questions from the press”
Type of:AnswerReplyRespondselect (a team or individual player) for a game
“The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl”
Type of:TakeChooseSelectcatch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
Type of:HandlePalmplay as a fielder
Type of:Play
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