Field - Definition

n 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" [syn: 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"
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" [syn:
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 [syn: field, field of
force, force field]
6: a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are
outstanding in their field" [syn: 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" [syn: 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" [syn: 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" [syn: 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"
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" [syn:
field, field of operations, theater, theater of
operations, theatre, theatre of operations]
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)
[syn: field, field of view]
17: a place where planes take off and land [syn: airfield,
landing field, flying field, field]
v 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"