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field
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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
Noun
  • a place where planes take off and land
  • the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
  • (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
  • (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
  • 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
  • the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
  • 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
  • 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
  • a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
    • he planted a field of wheat
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