Definitions for: Field


[n] a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"
[n] a place where planes take off and land
[n] the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
[n] 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"
[n] all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
[n] (horse racing) all of the horses in a particular race
[n] (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"
[n] (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
[n] a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
[n] a region in which military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"
[n] 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"
[n] a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"
[n] a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
[n] a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"
[n] extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
[n] the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
[n] 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"
[v] answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
[v] play as a fielder, in baseball or cricket
[v] catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket



Webster (1913) Definition: Field, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fielded; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fielding.]
1. To take the field. [Obs.] --Spenser.

2. (Ball Playing) To stand out in the field, ready to catch,
stop, or throw the ball.


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

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See Also: aerodrome, airdrome, airport, airstrip, allometry, answer, applied science, apron, architecture, arena, Armageddon, arts, auxiliary airfield, ball field, battlefront, bibliotics, bit field, bowl, bowling green, business, business enterprise, Camlan, campus, coalfield, commercial enterprise, communication theory, communications, court, curtilage, diamond, distaff, divinity, dry land, earth, electric field, engineering, engineering science, environment, facility, firebreak, fireguard, flat, flight line, flight strip, flux, football field, front, front, front line, frontier, gasfield, geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, grain field, grainfield, gravitational field, gridiron, ground, grounds, handle, humanistic discipline, humanities, installation, kingdom, knowledge base, knowledge domain, land, land, landing strip, lap, lawn, liberal arts, llano, magnetic field, magnetic flux, major, microscopic field, midfield, military science, moor, moorland, numerology, oilfield, ology, Olympia, operative field, paddy, paddy field, palaestra, palestra, palm, parcel, parcel of land, physical phenomenon, piece of ground, piece of land, play, political arena, political sphere, preserve, province, radiation field, realm, region, reply, respond, responsibility, rice paddy, runway, scalar field, scene of action, science, scientific discipline, sector, set, snowfield, solid ground, stadium, steppe, strip, taxi strip, taxiway, technology, terra firma, theology, tract, transit, transportation, transportation system, tundra, visual image, visual percept, yard

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