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field
noun(field)
a branch of knowledge
Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field,
field
noun(field)
a particular kind of commercial enterprise
Synonyms: field of operation, line of business,
Examples:
They are outstanding in their field.
field
noun(field)
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
Synonyms: field of view,
field
noun(field)
a particular environment or walk of life
Synonyms: area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere,
field
noun(field)
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
Synonyms: field of force, force field,
field
noun(field)
a piece of land prepared for playing a game
Synonyms: athletic field, playing area, playing field,
Examples:
The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field.
field
noun(field)
a place where planes take off and land
Synonyms: airfield, flying field, landing field,
field
noun(field)
extensive tract of level open land
Synonyms: champaign, plain,
Examples:
He longed for the fields of his youth.
field
noun(field)
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
Synonyms: battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor,
Examples:
They made a tour of Civil War battlefields.
field
noun(field)
a region in which active military operations are in progress
Synonyms: field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations,
Examples:
The army was in the field awaiting action.
field
noun(field)
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
Examples:
The diamond fields of South Africa.
field
noun(field)
all of the horses in a particular horse race
field
noun(field)
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
field
verb(field)
answer adequately or successfully
Examples:
The lawyer fielded all questions from the press.
field
noun(field)
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
Examples:
He planted a field of wheat.
field
verb(field)
catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
field
noun(field)
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
field
noun(field)
(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
Examples:
The set of all rational numbers is a field.
field
verb(field)
play as a fielder
field
verb(field)
select (a team or individual player) for a game
Examples:
The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl.
field
noun(field)
somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
Examples:
Anthropologists do much of their work in the field.

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