field | |
1. n. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. | |
There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field. | |
2. n. (usually plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city. | |
3. n. # An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways. | |
4. n. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals. | |
There were some cows grazing in a field. | |
A crop circle was made in a corn field. | |
5. n. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral. | |
oil field; gold field | |
6. n. A place where competitive matches are carried out. | |
7. n. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield. | |
8. n. An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force. | |
soccer field | |
Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked. | |
9. n. # (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat). | |
10. n. # (baseball) The outfield. | |
11. n. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game. | |
12. n. A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals. | |
13. n. (metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting. | |
This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field. | |
14. n. Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors. | |
15. n. (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that ass | |
magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field | |
16. n. (Any of certain structures serving cognition.) | |
17. n. # The extent of a given perception. | |
# field of view | |
18. n. # A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory. | |
# The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture. | |
# Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists. | |
# He needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted. | |
19. n. # A domain of study, knowledge or practice. | |
# He was an expert in the field of Chinese history. | |
20. n. # An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement. | |
21. n. # (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms. | |
# The set of rational numbers,\mathbbQ, is the prototypical field. | |
22. n. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols. | |
23. n. # (heraldry) The background of the shield. | |
24. n. # (vexillology) The background of the flag. | |
25. n. # A concrete section in a form which is supposed to be filled with data. | |
# The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and ship-to address. | |
26. n. # A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored. | |
27. n. ## (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls. | |
28. v. (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it. | |
29. v. (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it. | |
The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting. | |
30. v. (transitive, sports) To place a team in (a game). | |
The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper. | |
31. v. To answer; to address. | |
She will field questions immediately after her presentation. | |
32. v. To defeat. | |
They fielded a fearsome army. | |
33. v. To execute research (in the field). | |
He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product. | |
34. v. (transitive, military) To deploy in the field. | |