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▸ noun: a particular kind of commercial enterprise ("They are outstanding in their field")
▸ noun: the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
▸ noun: all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
▸ noun: all of the horses in a particular horse race
▸ noun: (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")
▸ noun: (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
▸ noun: a region in which active military operations are in progress ("The army was in the field awaiting action")
▸ noun: 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")
▸ noun: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed ("He planted a field of wheat")
▸ noun: a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found ("The diamond fields of South Africa")
▸ noun: the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
▸ noun: extensive tract of level open land ("He longed for the fields of his youth")
▸ noun: a place where planes take off and land
▸ noun: a piece of land prepared for playing a game ("The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field")
▸ noun: a branch of knowledge
▸ noun: a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought ("They made a tour of Civil War battlefields")
▸ noun: a particular environment or walk of life
▸ verb: select (a team or individual player) for a game ("The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl")
▸ verb: answer adequately or successfully ("The lawyer fielded all questions from the press")
▸ verb: play as a fielder
▸ verb: catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
▸ name: A surname (common: 1 in 9090 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1165)
▸ Also see fields
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to field
▸ Usage examples for field
▸ Idioms related to field (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing field
▸ Words that often appear near field
▸ Rhymes of field
▸ Invented words related to field
▸ noun: a particular kind of commercial enterprise ("They are outstanding in their field")
▸ noun: the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
▸ noun: all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
▸ noun: all of the horses in a particular horse race
▸ noun: (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")
▸ noun: (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
▸ noun: a region in which active military operations are in progress ("The army was in the field awaiting action")
▸ noun: 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")
▸ noun: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed ("He planted a field of wheat")
▸ noun: a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found ("The diamond fields of South Africa")
▸ noun: the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
▸ noun: extensive tract of level open land ("He longed for the fields of his youth")
▸ noun: a place where planes take off and land
▸ noun: a piece of land prepared for playing a game ("The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field")
▸ noun: a branch of knowledge
▸ noun: a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought ("They made a tour of Civil War battlefields")
▸ noun: a particular environment or walk of life
▸ verb: select (a team or individual player) for a game ("The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl")
▸ verb: answer adequately or successfully ("The lawyer fielded all questions from the press")
▸ verb: play as a fielder
▸ verb: catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
▸ name: A surname (common: 1 in 9090 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1165)
▸ Also see fields
▸ Word origin
▸ Words similar to field
▸ Usage examples for field
▸ Idioms related to field (New!)
▸ Popular adjectives describing field
▸ Words that often appear near field
▸ Rhymes of field
▸ Invented words related to field