Definition of Field

Noun

  • a place where planes take off and land
    - landing field - flying field
  • the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
    - field of view
  • (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
  • a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
    "the diamond fields of South Africa"
  • all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
  • all of the horses in a particular horse race
  • 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"
    - field of operations - theater of operations - theatre of operations
  • (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"
  • extensive tract of level open land
    "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"
    "he longed for the fields of his youth"
  • a piece of land prepared for playing a game
    "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
    - playing field - athletic field - playing area
  • 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"
  • a particular kind of commercial enterprise
    "they are outstanding in their field"
    - field of operation - line of business
  • the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
    - field of force - force field
  • 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"
    - subject area - subject field - field of study
  • 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"
  • a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
    "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
    - field of battle - field of honor
  • a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
    "he planted a field of wheat"

Verb

  • select (a team or individual player) for a game
    "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
  • answer adequately or successfully
    "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
  • play as a fielder
  • catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
Based on WordNet 3.0, Farlex clipart collection. © 2003-2012 Princeton University, Farlex Inc.

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Unscramble field

42 unscramble word found using the letters field.

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