Field
WordNet
noun
(1) A particular kind of commercial enterprise
"They are outstanding in their field"
(2) A place where planes take off and land
(3) The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
(4) A branch of knowledge
"In what discipline is his doctorate?"
"Teachers should be well trained in their subject"
"Anthropology is the study of human beings"
(5) All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
(6) All of the horses in a particular horse race
(7) (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"
(8) (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
(9) A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
"They made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
(10) A region in which active military operations are in progress
"The army was in the field awaiting action"
"He served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
(11) 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"
(12) A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
"He planted a field of wheat"
(13) A piece of land prepared for playing a game
"The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
(14) A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
"The diamond fields of South Africa"
(15) Extensive tract of level open land
"They emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"
"He longed for the fields of his youth"
(16) The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
(17) A particular environment or walk of life
"His social sphere is limited"
"It was a closed area of employment"
"He's out of my orbit"
verb
(18) Select (a team or individual player) for a game
"The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
(19) Answer adequately or successfully
"The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
(20) Play as a fielder
(21) Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
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Etymology
From , from ; related to Latin and English .
Noun
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
- A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
- The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural.
- A region affected by a particular force.
- magnetic field
- A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
- 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.
- The set of rational numbers, , is the prototypical field.
- An area reserved for playing a game.
- soccer field
- A region containing a particular mineral.
- oil field or oilfield
- gold field or goldfield
- The background of the shield
- An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
Synonyms
- (course of study or domain of knowledge): area, domain, sphere
- (sports: area reserved for playing a game): course (for golf), court (for racquet sports), ground, pitch (for soccer, rugby, cricket)