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Definition of 'field'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) field
a piece of open or cleared land, esp. one suitable for pasture or tillage.

2.  field
a piece of ground devoted to sports or contests; playing field.

3.  field
an area in which field events are held.

4.  field
a sphere or branch of activity or interest:
the field of teaching.

5.  field
the area drawn on or serviced by a business or profession; outlying areas where practical activities or operations are carried on:
our representatives in the field.

6.  field
a job or research location away from regular workshop or study facilities, offices, or the like.

7.  field
the scene or area of active military operations.

8.  field
a battleground.

9.  field
a battle.

10.  field
an expanse of anything:
a field of ice.

11.  field
any region characterized by a particular feature, resource, activity, etc.:
an oil field.

12.  field
the surface of a canvas, shield, flag, or coin on which something is portrayed:
a gold star on a field of blue.

13.  field
all the competitors in a contest, or all the competitors except for the leader.

14.  field
(in betting) all the contestants or numbers that are grouped together as one.

15.  field
a region of space in which a force acts, as that around a magnet or a charged particle.

16.  field
the quantity defined by the force acting on a given object or particle at each point in such a region.

17.  field
the entire angular expanse visible through an optical instrument at a given time.

18.  field
the structure in a generator or motor that produces a magnetic field around a rotating armature.

19.  field
Math. a number system that has the same properties relative to the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as the number system of all real numbers.

20.  field
the area of a photographic subject that is taken in by a lens at a particular diaphragm opening.

21.  field
the total complex of factors within which a psychological event occurs and is perceived as occurring.

22.  field
a unit of information, as a person's name, that combines with related fields, as an official title or company name, to form one complete record in a computerized database.

23. (v.t.) field
(in baseball and cricket) to catch or pick up (the ball) in play.

24.  field
to place (a player, group of players, or a team) in the field to play.

25.  field
to answer skillfully:
to field a difficult question.

26.  field
to place in competition.

27.  field
to put into action or on duty.

28. (v.i.) field
to act as a fielder in baseball or cricket.

29. (adj.) field
Sports.

30.  field
of, taking place, or competed for on the field and not on the track, as the discus throw or shot put.

31.  field
of or pertaining to field events.

32.  field
of or pertaining to active combat service as distinguished from service in rear areas or at headquarters:
a field soldier.

33.  field
of or pertaining to a field.

34.  field
working in the fields of a farm.

35.  field
working as a salesperson, representative, etc., in the field:
field agents.

36.  field
grown or cultivated in a field.

37.  field
to engage in a broad range of activities.

38.  field
to date a number of persons during the same period of time.

39. (n.) Field
Cyrus West, 1819–92, U.S. financier.

40.  Field
Eugene, 1850–95, U.S. poet and journalist.

Definition of 'field'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) field
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
"he planted a field of wheat"

2. (noun) battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
"they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

3. (noun) field
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"

4. (noun) discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick
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. (noun) field, field of force, force field
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

6. (noun) field, field of operation, line of business
a particular kind of commercial enterprise
"they are outstanding in their field"

7. (noun) sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena
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"

8. (noun) playing field, athletic field, playing area, field
a piece of land prepared for playing a game
"the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

9. (noun) plain, field, champaign
extensive tract of level open land
"they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"

10. (noun) field
(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"

11. (noun) field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations
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"

12. (noun) field
all of the horses in a particular horse race

13. (noun) field
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

14. (noun) field
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
"the diamond fields of South Africa"

15. (noun) field
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

16. (noun) field, field of view
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

17. (verb) airfield, landing field, flying field, field
a place where planes take off and land

18. (verb) field
catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

19. (verb) field
play as a fielder

20. (verb) field
answer adequately or successfully
"The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"

21. (verb) field
select (a team or individual player) for a game
"The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"

Definition of 'field'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) field
an area used for growing crops
a field of corn

2.  field
an area with wild grasses and other plants
a housing development where the fields used to be

3.  field
a sports playing area
a football field

4.  field
an area containing a natural resource
an oil/coal field

5.  field
an area of study or business
discoveries in the field of physics

6.  field
a space in a computer program where you can enter information
Enter your card number in the payment field.

7.  field
an area in which a physical force can have an effect
a magnetic field

Definition of 'field'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) field
cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country

2. (noun) field
a piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture

3. (noun) field
a place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself

4. (noun) field
an open space; an extent; an expanse

5. (noun) field
any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected

6. (noun) field
the space covered by an optical instrument at one view

7. (noun) field
the whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver)

8. (noun) field
an unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room

9. (noun) field
a collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting

10. (noun) field
that part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield

11. (verb) field
to take the field

12. (verb) field
to stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball

13. (verb) field
to catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder

Translation of 'field'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: a piece of land enclosed for growing crops, keeping animals etc Our house is surrounded by fields.
Afrikaans: land; akker; landerye	Arabic: حَقْل	Bulgarian: ливада
Brazilian: campo	Czech: pole	German: das Feld
Danish: mark	Greek: αγρός	Spanish: campo
Estonian: põld, nurm	Farsi: مزرعه	Finnish: pelto
French: champ	Hebrew: שָׂדֶה	Hindi: मैदान
Croatian: polje	Hungarian: (szántó)föld	Indonesian: ladang
Icelandic: akur	Italian: campo	Japanese: 畑
Korean: 목초지	Lithuanian: laukas	Latvian: lauks; tīrums
Malay: ladang	Dutch: veld	Norwegian: jorde,åker, eng
Polish: pole	Persian: مزرعه	Pashto: ميدان، ډګر، دباندې، بېر،
Portuguese: campo	Romanian: câmp(ie)	Russian: поле
Slovak: pole	Slovenian: polje	Serbian: polje
Swedish: äng, hage	Thai: ทุ่งนา	Turkish: tarla, otlak, mera
Taiwanese: 農田，牧場	Ukrainian: поле	Urdu: چراگاہ ، کھیتی کے لۓ احاط
Vietnamese: đồng ruộng	Chinese: 农田，牧场
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