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| 1. | [ noun ] (geography) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed | |
| Examples: | "he planted a field of wheat" |
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| Related terms: | tract lawn yard campus paddy grainfield firebreak | |
| 2. | [ noun ] (military,geography) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | |
| Synonyms: | battlefield field_of_battle battleground field_of_honor | |
| Examples: | "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields" |
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| Related terms: | tract Armageddon camlan battlefront sector | |
| 3. | [ noun ] somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected | |
| Examples: | "anthropologists do much of their work in the field" |
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| Related terms: | region | |
| 4. | [ noun ] a branch of knowledge | |
| Synonyms: | subject study discipline bailiwick field_of_study subject_field branch_of_knowledge subject_area | |
| Examples: | "in what discipline is his doctorate?" "teachers should be well trained in their subject" "anthropology is the study of human beings" |
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| Related terms: | knowledge_domain theology science humanistic_discipline engineering ology architecture protology futuristics allometry military_science frontier communication_theory major occultism numerology bibliotics theogony learn | |
| 5. | [ noun ] (physics) the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it | |
| Synonyms: | force_field field_of_force | |
| Related terms: | physical_phenomenon magnetic_field gravitational_field radiation_field electric_field | |
| 6. | [ noun ] (business) a particular kind of commercial enterprise | |
| Synonyms: | field_of_operation line_of_business | |
| Examples: | "they are outstanding in their field" |
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| Related terms: | commercial_enterprise | |
| 7. | [ noun ] a particular environment or walk of life | |
| Synonyms: | area sphere domain arena orbit | |
| Examples: | "his social sphere is limited" "it was a closed area of employment" "he's out of my orbit" |
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| Related terms: | environment front kingdom province political_arena preserve lap distaff | |
| 8. | [ noun ] (geography) a piece of land prepared for playing a game | |
| Synonyms: | athletic_field playing_area playing_field | |
| Examples: | "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field" |
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| Related terms: | tract court ball_field football_field palaestra bowling_green arena stadium midfield | |
| 9. | [ noun ] (geography) extensive tract of level open land | |
| Synonyms: | plain champaign | |
| Examples: | "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain" "he longed for the fields of his youth" |
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| Related terms: | land flat steppe llano snowfield moor tundra nullarbor_plain flood_plain peneplain Olympia | |
| 10. | [ 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 | |
| Examples: | "the set of all rational numbers is a field" |
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| Related terms: | set scalar_field mathematics | |
| 11. | [ noun ] (military) a region in which active military operations are in progress | |
| Synonyms: | theater theater_of_operations theatre theatre_of_operations field_of_operations | |
| Examples: | "the army was in the field awaiting action" "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years" |
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| Related terms: | region theater_of_war combat_zone military | |
| 12. | [ verb ] (baseball,cricket,games) play as a fielder, in baseball or cricket | |
| Related terms: | play sport fielder fielding | |
| 13. | [ noun ] all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event | |
| Related terms: | set | |
| 14. | [ verb ] (baseball,cricket) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket | |
| Related terms: | handle handle fielder | |
| 15. | [ noun ] (horse racing) all of the horses in a particular race | |
| Related terms: | set horse_racing | |
| 16. | [ verb ] select (a team or individual player) for a game | |
| Examples: | "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl" |
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| Related terms: | choose | |
| 17. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1165 | |
| 18. | [ noun ] (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information | |
| Related terms: | set bit_field computer_science | |
| 19. | [ verb ] answer adequately or successfully | |
| Examples: | "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press" |
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| Related terms: | answer | |
| 20. | [ noun ] (geography) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found | |
| Examples: | "the diamond fields of South Africa" |
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| Related terms: | geographical_area oilfield gasfield coalfield | |
| 21. | [ noun ] the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) | |
| Synonyms: | field_of_view | |
| Related terms: | visual_percept operative_field microscopic_field | |
| 22. | [ noun ] (transportation) a place where planes take off and land | |
| Synonyms: | landing_field flying_field airfield | |
| Related terms: | facility airport airstrip auxiliary_airfield transportation_system taxiway flight_line runway apron | |
| Similar spelling: |
filled filth filet filthy fillet filiate Feld |
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