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Meaning & Definition of Field in English

English

Field

/fild/

noun

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

  • "He planted a field of wheat"
synonym:
  • field

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

  • "They made a tour of civil war battlefields"
synonym:
  • battlefield,
  • battleground,
  • field of battle,
  • field of honor,
  • field

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"
synonym:
  • 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"
synonym:
  • discipline,
  • subject,
  • subject area,
  • subject field,
  • field,
  • field of study,
  • study,
  • bailiwick

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

synonym:
  • field,
  • field of force,
  • force field

6. A particular kind of commercial enterprise

  • "They are outstanding in their field"
synonym:
  • field,
  • field of operation,
  • line of business

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"
synonym:
  • sphere,
  • domain,
  • area,
  • orbit,
  • field,
  • arena

8. A piece of land prepared for playing a game

  • "The home crowd cheered when princeton took the field"
synonym:
  • playing field,
  • athletic field,
  • playing area,
  • 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"
synonym:
  • plain,
  • field,
  • champaign

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"
synonym:
  • 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"
synonym:
  • field,
  • field of operations,
  • theater,
  • theater of operations,
  • theatre,
  • theatre of operations

12. All of the horses in a particular horse race

synonym:
  • field

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

synonym:
  • field

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

  • "The diamond fields of south africa"
synonym:
  • field

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

synonym:
  • field

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

synonym:
  • field,
  • field of view

17. A place where planes take off and land

synonym:
  • airfield,
  • landing field,
  • flying field,
  • field

verb

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

synonym:
  • field

2. Play as a fielder

synonym:
  • field

3. Answer adequately or successfully

  • "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
synonym:
  • field

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

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

Examples of using

Pigeons can use the terrestrial magnetic field to find their way home.
After sunset, a thin mist appeared over the field.
Tom plowed the whole field in three hours.