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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"
Generic synonyms: Parcel, Parcel Of Land, Piece Of Ground, Piece Of Land, Tract
2. Verb. Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.
3. Verb. Play as a fielder.
Generic synonyms: Play
Derivative terms: Fielder, Fielder, Fielding
4. Noun. A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought. "They made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
Specialized synonyms: Armageddon, Camlan
Terms within: Battlefront, Front, Front Line, Sector
Generic synonyms: Parcel, Parcel Of Land, Piece Of Ground, Piece Of Land, Tract
5. Verb. Answer adequately or successfully. "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
6. 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"
7. Noun. A branch of knowledge. "Anthropology is the study of human beings"
Specialized synonyms: Occultism, Communication Theory, Communications, Major, Frontier, Genealogy, Allometry, Bibliotics, Ology, Science, Scientific Discipline, Architecture, Applied Science, Engineering, Engineering Science, Technology, Futuristics, Futurology, Arts, Humanistic Discipline, Humanities, Liberal Arts, Divinity, Theology, Military Science, Escapology, Graphology, Numerology, Protology, Theogony
Generic synonyms: Domain, Knowledge Base, Knowledge Domain
Derivative terms: Disciplinary, Study, Study
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.
Generic synonyms: Physical Phenomenon
Specialized synonyms: Electric Field, Gravitational Field, Flux, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Flux, Radiation Field
10. Noun. A particular kind of commercial enterprise. "They are outstanding in their field"
Generic synonyms: Business, Business Enterprise, Commercial Enterprise
11. Noun. A particular environment or walk of life. "He's out of my orbit"
Generic synonyms: Environment
Specialized synonyms: Distaff, Front, Kingdom, Land, Realm, Lap, Political Arena, Political Sphere, Preserve, Province, Responsibility
12. Noun. A piece of land prepared for playing a game. "The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
Specialized synonyms: Arena, Scene Of Action, Ball Field, Baseball Field, Diamond, Court, Football Field, Gridiron, Palaestra, Palestra, Bowling Green
Group relationships: Arena, Bowl, Sports Stadium, Stadium
Terms within: Midfield
Generic synonyms: Parcel, Parcel Of Land, Piece Of Ground, Piece Of Land, Tract
13. Noun. Extensive tract of level open land. "He longed for the fields of his youth"
Specialized synonyms: Olympia, Nullarbor Plain, Serengeti, Serengeti Plain
Specialized synonyms: Flat, Flood Plain, Floodplain, Llano, Moor, Moorland, Peneplain, Peneplane, Snowfield, Steppe, Tundra
Generic synonyms: Dry Land, Earth, Ground, Land, Solid Ground, Terra Firma
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"
Generic synonyms: Set
Specialized synonyms: Scalar Field
15. Noun. A region in which active military operations are in progress. "He served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Group relationships: Theater Of War, Theatre Of War
Generic synonyms: Region
Terms within: Combat Area, Combat Zone
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"
Specialized synonyms: Coalfield, Gasfield, Oilfield
19. Noun. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information.
Generic synonyms: Set
Specialized synonyms: Bit Field
20. Noun. The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument).
Generic synonyms: Visual Image, Visual Percept
Specialized synonyms: Microscopic Field, Operative Field
21. Noun. A place where planes take off and land.
Specialized synonyms: Aerodrome, Airdrome, Airport, Drome, Airstrip, Flight Strip, Landing Strip, Strip, Auxiliary Airfield
Terms within: Apron, Runway, Taxi Strip, Taxiway, Flight Line
Generic synonyms: Facility, Installation
Group relationships: Transit, Transportation, Transportation System
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. Proper noun. (surname) ¹
2. Noun. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. ¹
3. Noun. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals. ¹
4. Noun. The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural. ¹
5. Noun. A region affected by a particular force. ¹
6. Noun. A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice. ¹
7. Noun. An area that can be seen at a given time. ¹
8. Noun. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield. ¹
9. Noun. An area reserved for playing a game. ¹
10. Noun. A realm of practical, direct, or natural operation, contrasting with an office, classroom, or laboratory. ¹
11. Noun. (algebra) A set having two operations called addition and multiplication under both of which all the elements of the set are commutative and associative; for which multiplication distributes over addition; and for both of which there exist an identity element and an inverse element (except for the additive identity). ¹
12. Noun. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral. ¹
13. Noun. (heraldry) The background of the shield ¹
14. Noun. (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value. ¹
15. Noun. A component of a database record in which a single unit of information is stored. ¹
16. Noun. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of characters. ¹
17. Noun. (baseball obsolete) The team in a match who is throwing the ball and trying to catch the ball hit by the other team (the bat). ¹
18. Verb. (transitive sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it. ¹
19. Verb. (baseball softball cricket and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it. ¹
20. Verb. (transitive sports) To place a team in (a game). ¹
21. Verb. (transitive) To answer; to address. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Field
1. to play as a fielder [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Field
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Field
Literary usage of Field
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1922)
"If the magnetic moment of one electronic orbit is positive the effect of the
external field is to decrease it and if the magnetic moment of another orbit is ..."
2. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble by Thomas Malory, Alfred William Pollard, William Caxton (1903)
"And so they beat the King of Wales and the King of Scots far aback, and made them
to avoid the field ; but Sir Tristram and Sir Gareth abode still in the ..."
3. Bulletin (1914)
"It is said that outside refineries are offering $1.60 per barrel for the light
oil from the Douglas field, fob, and the producers of the Spring Valley field ..."
4. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1917)
"L. MILLER LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, December 12, 1916 SCIENTIFIC BOOKS field Geology.
By FREDERICK H. LAHEE, Assistant Professor of Geology in the Massachusetts ..."
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