English dictionary
field
nounPronunciation
fiːld
Audio pronunciation
Parts of speech
Definitions
noun
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
noun
- a place where planes take off and land
noun
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
noun
- a branch of knowledge
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
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
noun
- a region in which active military operations are in progress
noun
- somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
noun
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
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- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
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- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
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- extensive tract of level open land
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- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
noun
- a particular environment or walk of life
verb
- select (a team or individual player) for a game
verb
- answer adequately or successfully
verb
- play as a fielder
verb
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
Example sentences
they are outstanding in their field
in what discipline is his doctorate?
teachers should be well trained in their subject
anthropology is the study of human beings
the set of all rational numbers is a field
they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
the army was in the field awaiting action
he served in the Vietnam theater for three years
anthropologists do much of their work in the field
he planted a field of wheat
the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
the diamond fields of South Africa
they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
he longed for the fields of his youth
his social sphere is limited
it was a closed area of employment
he's out of my orbit
The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl
The lawyer fielded all questions from the press