noun
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
Examples
- he planted a field of wheat
noun
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
Synonyms
Examples
- they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
noun
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
noun
a branch of knowledge
Synonyms
Examples
- in what discipline is his doctorate?
- teachers should be well trained in their subject
- anthropology is the study of human beings
noun
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
noun
a particular kind of commercial enterprise
Synonyms
field of operation
line of business
Examples
- they are outstanding in their field
noun
a particular environment or walk of life
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Examples
- his social sphere is limited
- it was a closed area of employment
- he's out of my orbit
noun
a piece of land prepared for playing a game
Synonyms
playing field
athletic field
playing area
Examples
- the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
noun
extensive tract of level open land
Synonyms
Examples
- they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
- he longed for the fields of his youth
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
Examples
- the set of all rational numbers is a field
noun
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
- he served in the Vietnam theater for three years
noun
all of the horses in a particular horse race
noun
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
noun
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
Examples
- the diamond fields of South Africa
noun
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
noun
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
Synonyms
field of view
noun
a place where planes take off and land
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verb
catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
verb
answer adequately or successfully
Examples
- The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
verb
select (a team or individual player) for a game
Examples
- The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl