1. subst. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
2. subst. (usually plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
3. subst. # An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
4. subst. 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. subst. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
oil field; gold field
6. subst. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
7. subst. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
8. subst. 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. subst. # (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. subst. # (baseball) The outfield.
11. subst. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game.
12. subst. A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
13. subst. (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. subst. Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
15. subst. (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. subst. (Any of certain structures serving cognition.)
17. subst. # The extent of a given perception.
# field of view
18. subst. # 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. subst. # A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
# He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.
20. subst. # An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
21. subst. # (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
# The set of rational numbers,\mathbbQ, is the prototypical field.
22. subst. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
23. subst. # (heraldry) The background of the shield.
24. subst. # (vexillology) The background of the flag.
25. subst. # 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. subst. # A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
27. subst. ## (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.
infield
infield
1. subst. The area inside a racetrack or running track.
2. subst. A constrained scope or area.
Let’s keep this problem in the infield.
3. subst. (agriculture) An area to cultivate: a field
4. subst. (baseball) The region of the field roughly bounded by the home plate, first base, second base and third base.
They covered the infield with a tarp when it started to rain.
5. subst. (baseball) (as a modifier, functioning as an adjective) Of an event, happening in the infield.
Jones ran out an infield single.
6. subst. (cricket) The region of the field roughly bounded by the wicket keeper, slips, gully, point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket and square leg.
7. v. To enclose (a piece of land); make a field of.
1. subst. (geometry) A polygon with four sides of equal length and four right angle, right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
2. subst. (metonymically) Something characterized by a square, or nearly square, form.
3. subst. A cell in a grid.
You may not move a piece to a square already occupied by one of your own pieces.
4. subst. A square piece, part, or surface, (such as a square of glass).
5. subst. The front of a woman's dress over the bosom, usually worked or embroidered.
6. subst. (North America) A dessert cut into rectangular pieces, or a piece of such a dessert.
7. subst. (printing) A certain number of lines, forming a portion of a column, nearly square; used chiefly in reckoning the prices of advertisements in newspaper
8. subst. An L- or T-shaped tool used to place objects or draw lines at right angles.
9. subst. (figuratively, obsolete) A true measure, standard, or pattern.
10. subst. An open space often in the center of a town, not necessarily square in shape, often containing trees, seating and other features pleasing to the eye.
11. subst. (mathematics) The product of a number or quantity multiplied by itself; the second power of a number, value, term or expression.
64 is the square of 8.
12. subst. (military) A body of troops drawn up in a square formation.
13. subst. (1950s slang) A socially conventional or conservative person; a person who has little or no interest in the latest fads or trends: still sometimes used in modern terminology.
Why do you always wear a tie? Don't be such a square!
14. subst. (British) The symbol # on a telephone; hash.
Enter your account number followed by a square.
15. subst. (cricket) The central area of a cricket field, with one or more pitches of which only one is used at a time.
An ideal playing area is roughly circular in shape with a central area, the cricket square, measuring 27.44 metres by 27.44 metres and boundaries 45.75 metres from the sides of the square.
16. subst. (real estate) A unit of measurement of area, equal to a 10 foot by 10 foot square, i.e. 100 square feet or roughly 9.3 square metres. Used in real estate for the size of a house or its rooms, though p
2006: Just as the basic unit of real estate measurement across the world is the square ... — Macquarie Bank (Australia), press release Macquarie releases Real Estate Market Outlook 2006 -
2007: The house is very large and open and boasts 39 squares of living space plus over 13 squares of decking area on 3 sides and 17 squares of garage and workshop downstairs. — Your Estat
17. subst. (roofing) A unit used in measuring roof area equivalent to 100 square feet (9.29 m2) of roof area.
18. subst. (academia) A mortarboard
19. subst. (colloquial, US) A square meal.
Even when times were tough, we got three squares a day.
20. subst. (archaic) Exact proportion; justness of workmanship and conduct; regularity; rule.
21. subst. The relation of harmony, or exact agreement; equality; level.
22. subst. (astrology) The position of planets distant ninety degrees from each other; a quadrate.
23. subst. (dated) The act of squaring, or quarrelling; a quarrel.
24. subst. (slang) cigarette, Cigarette.
25. subst. (brewing) A vat used for fermentation.
26. adj. Shaped like a square (the polygon).
27. adj. Forming a right angle, especially (nautical) at right angles with the mast or the keel, and parallel to the horizon; said of the yards of a square-rigged vessel when they are so braced.
a square corner
28. adj. Of numbers formed by multiplying two equal numbers.
9 is a square number.
29. adj. Used in the names of units of area formed by multiplying a unit of length by itself.
square metre
square mile
30. adj. Honest; straightforward.
square dealing
31. adj. Fair.
I'm just looking for a square deal on my car repair.
32. adj. Even; tied
to make or leave the accounts square
The sides were square at the end of the half.
33. adj. (slang) Socially conventional; boring.
34. adj. (cricket) In line with the batsman's popping crease.
35. adj. Correctly aligned with respect to something else.
36. adj. hearty; vigorous
It may be prison, but at least I'm getting three square meals a day.
37. adj. Having a shape broad for the height, with angular rather than curving outlines.
a man of a square frame
38. v. To adjust so as to align with or place at a right angle to something else; (in particular:)
The casting was mounted on a milling machine so that its sides could be squared.
39. v. (nautical) To place at a right angle to the keel.
to square the yards
40. v. To resolve or reconcile.
John can square this question up for us.
These results just don't square.
41. v. To adjust or adapt so as to bring into harmony with something.
I cannot square the results of the experiment with my hypothesis.
to square our actions by the opinions of others
42. v. (transitive, mathematics) Of a value, term or expression, to multiply by itself; to raise to the second power.
43. v. To draw, with a pair of compasses and a straightedge only, a square with the same area as.
square the circle
44. v. (soccer) To make a short low pass sideways across the pitch
45. v. (archaic) To take opposing sides; to quarrel.
46. v. To accord or agree exactly; to be consistent with; to suit; to fit.
47. v. (obsolete) To go to opposite sides; to take an attitude of offense or defense, or of defiance; to quarrel.
48. v. To take a boxing attitude; often with up or off.
49. v. To form with four sides and four right angles.
50. v. To form with right angles and straight lines, or flat surfaces.
to square mason's work
51. v. To compare with, or reduce to, any given measure or standard.
52. v. (astrology) To hold a quartile position respecting.
[1] Under a layer of dust an array of books was visible on his bookshelf.
Unter einer Staubschicht war eine Anordnung von Büchern auf seinem Bücherbord zu sehen.
[2] „Arrays are among the oldest and most important data structures, and are used by almost every program.“
Felder gehören zu den ältesten und wichtigsten Datenstrukturen und werden von fast allen Programmen verwendet.
[3] „Another extension are tensors, which can be seen as higher-dimensional arrays of numbers, as opposed to vectors, which can often be realised as sequences of numbers, while matrices are rectangular or two-dimensional arrays of numbers.“
Eine andere Erweiterung sind Tensoren, die als höherdimensionale Matrizen aus Zahlen gesehen werden können – im Unterschied zu Vektoren, die oft als Zahlensequenzen erkannt werden, während Matrizen rechteckig oder zweidimensionale Arrays von Zahlen sind.
2. subst. A collection laid out to be viewed in full.
3. subst. An orderly series, arrangement or sequence.
4. subst. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle.
drawn up in battle array
5. subst. A large collection.
We offer a dazzling array of choices.
6. subst. (mathematics) Common name for matrix.
7. subst. (programming) Any of various data structures designed to hold multiple elements of the same type; especially, a data structure that holds these elements in adjacent memory locations so that they may b
8. subst. (legal) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impanelled in a cause; the panel itself; or the whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
9. subst. (military) A militia.
10. subst. A group of hedgehogs.(cite, url=http://www.askoxford.com/asktheexperts/collective/h/?view=uk, title=AskOxford: H, accessdate=2019-12-23, work=archived copy of Collective Terms for Groups of Animals, p
11. subst. A microarray.
12. v. To clothe and ornament; to adorn or attire.
He was arrayed in his finest robes and jewels.
13. v. To lay out in an orderly arrangement; to deploy or marshal.
14. v. (legal) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them one at a time.
1. subst. (geography, now rare) Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the
2. subst. Any given region or area of the world.
3. subst. A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.
The white zone is for loading and unloading only.
Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.
4. subst. A band or area of growth encircling anything.
a zone of evergreens on a mountain; the zone of animal or vegetable life in the ocean around an island or a continent
5. subst. A band or stripe extending around a body.
6. subst. (crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
7. subst. (baseball, informal) The strike zone.
That pitch was low and away, just outside of the zone.
8. subst. (ice hockey) Every of the three parts of an ice rink, divided by two blue lines.
Players are off side, if they enter the attacking zone before the puck.
9. subst. (handball) A semicircular area in front of each goal.
10. subst. (chiefly sports) A high-performance phase or period.
I just got in the zone late in the game: everything was going in.
11. subst. (basketball, American football) A defensive scheme where defenders guard a particular area of the court or field, as opposed to a particular opposing player.
12. subst. (networking) That collection of a domain's DNS resource records, the domain and its subdomains, that are not delegated to another authority.
13. subst. (Apple computing) A logical group of network devices on AppleTalk.
14. subst. (now literary) A belt or girdle.
15. subst. (geometry) The curved surface of a frustum of a sphere, the portion of surface of a sphere delimited by parallel planes.
16. subst. (geometry, loosely, perhaps by meronymy) A frustum of a sphere.
17. subst. A circuit; a circumference.
18. v. To divide into or assign sections or areas.
Please zone off our staging area, a section for each group.
19. v. To define the property use classification of an area.
This area was zoned for industrial use.
20. v. To enter a daydream state temporarily, for instance as a result of boredom, fatigue, or intoxication; to doze off.
I must have zoned while he was giving us the directions.
Everyone just put their goddamn heads together and zoned. (Byron Coley, liner notes for the album "Piece for Jetsun Dolma" by Thurston Moore)
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