Meaning of 'field'

noun

extensive tract of level open land

Synonyms: plain champaign

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 environment or walk of life

Synonyms: area arena sphere orbit domain

verb

select (a team or individual player) for a game

Example: "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"

verb

answer adequately or successfully

Example: "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"

verb

play as a fielder

verb

catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

noun

a particular kind of commercial enterprise

Example: "they are outstanding in their field"

Synonyms: field of operation

noun

a place where planes take off and land

Synonyms: airfield landing field flying field

noun

the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

Synonyms: field of view

noun

a branch of knowledge

Synonyms: study

noun

all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

noun

all of the horses in a particular horse race

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

Example: "the set of all rational numbers is a field"

noun

(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

noun

a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

Example: "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

Synonyms: battlefield battleground field of battle field of honor

noun

a region in which active military operations are in progress

Example: "the army was in the field awaiting action"

Synonyms: theater theatre field of operations theater of operations theatre of operations

noun

somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected

Example: "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"

noun

a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

Example: "The farmer planted a field of wheat."

noun

a piece of land prepared for playing a game

Example: "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

Synonyms: playing field athletic field playing area

noun

a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

Example: "the diamond fields of South Africa"