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Definition of Field

1. Noun. A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed. "He planted a field of wheat"

2. Verb. Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.

3. Noun. A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought. "They made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

4. Verb. Play as a fielder.

5. Noun. 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"

6. Verb. Answer adequately or successfully. "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"

7. Noun. A branch of knowledge. "Anthropology is the study of human beings"

8. Verb. Select (a team or individual player) for a game. "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"

9. Noun. The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it.

10. Noun. A particular kind of commercial enterprise. "They are outstanding in their field"

11. Noun. A particular environment or walk of life. "He's out of my orbit"

12. Noun. A piece of land prepared for playing a game. "The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

13. Noun. Extensive tract of level open land. "He longed for the fields of his youth"

14. Noun. (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"

15. Noun. A region in which active military operations are in progress. "He served in the Vietnam theater for three years"

16. Noun. All of the horses in a particular horse race.

17. Noun. All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event.

18. Noun. A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found. "The diamond fields of South Africa"

19. Noun. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information.

20. Noun. The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument).

21. Noun. A place where planes take off and land.

Definition of Field

1. n. Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

2. v. i. To take the field.

3. v. t. To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.

Definition of Field

1. to play as a fielder [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Medical Definition of Field

1. In physics, any macroscopic quantity which exists (and typically varies) throughout a region of space. Standard examples include Electric and Magnetic fields, velocity flow fields, gravitational fields, etc. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Field

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