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field
/fild/
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  1. noun
    a branch of knowledge

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    bailiwick discipline field of study study subject subject area subject field
  2. noun
    a particular kind of commercial enterprise
    "they are outstanding in their field"

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    field of operation line of business
  3. noun
    the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

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    field of view
  4. noun
    a particular environment or walk of life

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    area arena domain orbit sphere
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    environment
  5. noun
    the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

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    field of force force field
  6. noun
    a piece of land prepared for playing a game
    "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

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    athletic field playing area playing field
  7. noun
    a place where planes take off and land

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    airfield flying field landing field
  8. noun
    extensive tract of level open land
    "he longed for the fields of his youth"

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    champaign plain
  9. noun
    a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
    "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

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    battlefield battleground field of battle field of honor
  10. noun
    a region in which active military operations are in progress
    "the army was in the field awaiting action"

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    field of operations theater theater of operations theatre theatre of operations
  11. noun
    a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
    "the diamond fields of South Africa"
  12. noun
    all of the horses in a particular horse race
    type of:
    set
  13. noun
    all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
    type of:
    set
  14. verb
    answer adequately or successfully
    "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
    type of:
    answer reply respond
  15. noun
    a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
    "he planted a field of wheat"
  16. verb
    catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
    type of:
    handle palm
  17. noun
    (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
    type of:
    set
  18. 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"
    type of:
    set
  19. verb
    play as a fielder
    type of:
    play
  20. verb
    select (a team or individual player) for a game
    "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
  21. 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"
    type of:
    region
Examples of field
  • "they are outstanding in their field"
  • "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
  • "he longed for the fields of his youth"
  • "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
  • "the army was in the field awaiting action"
  • "the diamond fields of South Africa"
  • "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
  • "he planted a field of wheat"
  • "the set of all rational numbers is a field"
  • "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
  • "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"
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