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field

noun
  1. extensive tract of level open land
    plainchampaign
  2. the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
    field of forceforce field
  3. a particular environment or walk of life
    areaarenasphereorbitdomain
  4. a particular kind of commercial enterprise
    “they are outstanding in their field”
    field of operation
  5. a place where planes take off and land
    airfieldlanding fieldflying field
  6. the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
    field of view
  7. a branch of knowledge
    study
  8. all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
  9. all of the horses in a particular horse race
  10. (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. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
  12. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
    “they made a tour of Civil War battlefields”
    battlefieldbattlegroundfield of battlefield of honor
  13. a region in which active military operations are in progress
    “the army was in the field awaiting action”
    theatertheatrefield of operationstheater of operationstheatre of operations
  14. 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”
  15. a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
    “The farmer planted a field of wheat.”
  16. a piece of land prepared for playing a game
    “the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field”
    playing fieldathletic fieldplaying area
  17. a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
    “the diamond fields of South Africa”
verb
  1. select (a team or individual player) for a game
    “The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl”
  2. answer adequately or successfully
    “The lawyer fielded all questions from the press”
  3. play as a fielder
  4. catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket