Meaning & Definition of Field in English

1. A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

• "He planted a field of wheat"

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

• "They made a tour of civil war battlefields"

3. 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. 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. The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

6. A particular kind of commercial enterprise

• "They are outstanding in their field"

7. 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. A piece of land prepared for playing a game

• "The home crowd cheered when princeton took the field"

9. 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. (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. 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. All of the horses in a particular horse race

13. All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

14. A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

• "The diamond fields of south africa"

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

16. The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

17. A place where planes take off and land

1. Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

2. Play as a fielder

3. Answer adequately or successfully

• "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"

4. Select (a team or individual player) for a game

• "The buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the rose bowl"