1. s. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
2. s. (usually plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
3. s. # An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
4. s. 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. s. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
oil field; gold field
6. s. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
7. s. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
8. s. 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. s. # (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. s. # (baseball) The outfield.
11. s. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game.
12. s. A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
13. s. (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. s. Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
15. s. (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. s. (Any of certain structures serving cognition.)
17. s. # The extent of a given perception.
# field of view
18. s. # 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. s. # A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
# He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.
20. s. # An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
21. s. # (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
# The set of rational numbers,\mathbbQ, is the prototypical field.
22. s. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
23. s. # (heraldry) The background of the shield.
24. s. # (vexillology) The background of the flag.
25. s. # 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. s. # A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
27. s. ## (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.
1. s. A sticky, gummy substance secreted by trees; sap.
It is hard to get this pitch off my hand.
2. s. A dark, extremely viscous material remaining in still after distilling crude oil and tar.
They put pitch on the mast to protect it.
The barrel was sealed with pitch.
It was pitch black because there was no moon.
3. s. (geology) Pitchstone.
4. v. To cover or smear with pitch.
5. v. To darken; to blacken; to obscure.
6. s. A throw; a toss; a cast, as of something from the hand.
a good pitch in quoits
7. s. (baseball) The act of pitching a baseball.
The pitch was low and inside.
8. s. (sports) (Australia) The field on which cricket, soccer, rugby or field hockey is played. (In cricket, the pitch is in the centre of the field; see cricket pitch.) Not used in America, where "field" i
The teams met on the pitch.
9. s. An effort to sell or promote something.
He gave me a sales pitch.
10. s. The distance between evenly spaced objects, e.g. the teeth of a saw or gear, the turns of a screw thread, the centres of holes, or letters in a monospace font.
The pitch of pixels on the point scale is 72 pixels per inch.
The pitch of this saw is perfect for that type of wood.
A helical scan with a pitch of zero is equivalent to constant z-axis scanning.
11. s. The angle at which an object sits.
the pitch of the roof or haystack
12. s. A level or degree, or (by extension), a peak or highest degree.
13. s. The rotation angle about the transverse axis.
14. s. (nautical, aviation) The degree to which a vehicle, especially a ship or aircraft, rotates on such an axis, tilting its bow or nose up or down. Compare
the pitch of an aircraft
15. s. (aviation) A measure of the angle of attack of a propeller.
The propeller blades' pitch went to zero as the engine was feathered.
16. s. The place where a busker performs.
17. s. An area in a market (or similar) allocated to a particular trader.
18. s. An area on a campsite intended for occupation by a single tent, caravan or similar.
19. s. A point or peak; the extreme point of elevation or depression.
20. s. (climbing) A section of a climb or rock face; specifically, the climbing distance between belays or stances.
21. s. (caving) A vertical cave passage, only negotiable by using rope or ladders.
The entrance pitch requires 30 metres of rope.
22. s. (now British, regional) A person or animal's height.
23. s. (cricket) That point of the ground on which the ball pitches or lights when bowled.
24. s. A descent; a fall; a thrusting down.
25. s. The point where a declivity begins; hence, the declivity itself; a descending slope; the degree or rate of descent or slope; slant.
a steep pitch in the road; the pitch of a roof
26. s. (mining) The limit of ground set to a miner who receives a share of the ore taken out.
27. v. To throw.
He pitched the horseshoe.
28. v. (transitive, or intransitive, baseball) To throw (the ball) toward a batter at home plate.
(transitive) The hurler pitched a curveball.
(intransitive) He pitched high and inside.
29. v. (intransitive, baseball) To play baseball in the position of pitcher.
Bob pitches today.
30. v. To throw away; discard.
He pitched the candy wrapper.
31. v. To promote, advertise, or attempt to sell.
He pitched the idea for months with no takers.
32. v. To deliver in a certain tone or style, or with a certain audience in mind.
At which level should I pitch my presentation?
33. v. To assemble or erect (a tent).
Pitch the tent over there.
34. v. (intransitive) To fix or place a tent or temporary habitation; to encamp.
35. v. (ambitransitive, aviation, or nautical) To move so that the front of an aircraft or ship goes alternatively up and down.
(transitive) The typhoon pitched the deck of the ship.
(intransitive) The airplane pitched.
36. v. (transitive, golf) To play a short, high, lofty shot that lands with backspin.
The only way to get on the green from here is to pitch the ball over the bunker.
37. v. (intransitive, cricket) To bounce on the playing surface.
The ball pitched well short of the batsman.
38. v. (intransitive, Bristol, of snow) To settle and build up, without melting.
39. v. (intransitive, archaic) To alight; to settle; to come to rest from flight.
40. v. (with on or upon) To fix one's choice.
41. v. (intransitive) To plunge or fall; especially, to fall forward; to decline or slope.
to pitch from a precipice
The field pitches toward the east.
42. v. (transitive, of an embankment, roadway) To set, face, or pave with rubble or undressed stones.
43. v. (transitive, of a price, value) To set or fix.
44. v. (transitive, card games, slang) To discard for some gain.
45. s. (music, phonetics) The perceived frequency of a sound or note.
The pitch of middle "C" is familiar to many musicians.
46. s. (music) In an a cappella group, the singer responsible for singing a note for the other members to tune themselves by.
Bob, our pitch, let out a clear middle "C" and our conductor gave the signal to start.
47. v. (intransitive) To produce a note of a given pitch.
48. v. To fix or set the tone of.
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1. s. an open field, meadow
2. s. Any of several measures of yarn; for linen, 300 yards; for cotton, 120 yards
3. s. A set of warp threads carried by a loop of the heddle.
1. s. (chiefly British) An area of land; a district, region.
2. s. A set region of land having particular human occupation or agreed limits, especially inhabited by members of the same race, language speakers etc., or associated with a given person, occupation, speci
3. s. The territory of a nation, especially an independent nation state or formerly independent nation; a political entity asserting ultimate authority over a geographical area.
4. s. (usually preceded by “the”) A rural area, as opposed to a town or city; the countryside.
5. s. (ellipsis of country music)
6. s. (mining) The rock through which a vein runs.
7. s. (vulgar,) The female genitalia, especially the vagina.
8. adj. From or in the countryside or connected with it.
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