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'field'

[field.n.01] as in: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

'field'

[battlefield.n.01] as in: a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

Examples:
they made a tour of Civil War battlefields

'field'

[field.n.03] as in: somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected

Examples:
anthropologists do much of their work in the field

'field'

[discipline.n.01] as in: a branch of knowledge

Examples:
in what discipline is his doctorate?
teachers should be well trained in their subject
anthropology is the study of human beings

'field'

[field.n.05] as in: the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

'field'

[field.n.06] as in: a particular kind of commercial enterprise

Examples:
they are outstanding in their field

'field'

[sphere.n.01] as in: a particular environment or walk of life

Examples:
his social sphere is limited
it was a closed area of employment
he's out of my orbit

'field'

[playing_field.n.02] as in: a piece of land prepared for playing a game

Examples:
the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field

'field'

[plain.n.01] as in: extensive tract of level open land

Examples:
they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
he longed for the fields of his youth

'field'

[field.n.10] as in: (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

Examples:
the set of all rational numbers is a field

'field'

[field.n.11] as in: a region in which active military operations are in progress

Examples:
the army was in the field awaiting action
he served in the Vietnam theater for three years

'field'

[field.n.12] as in: all of the horses in a particular horse race

'field'

[field.n.13] as in: all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

'field'

[field.n.14] as in: a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

Examples:
the diamond fields of South Africa

'field'

[field.n.15] as in: (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

'field'

[field.n.16] as in: the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

'field'

[airfield.n.01] as in: a place where planes take off and land

'field'

[field.v.01] as in: catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

'field'

[field.v.02] as in: play as a fielder

'field'

[field.v.03] as in: answer adequately or successfully

Examples:
The lawyer fielded all questions from the press

'field'

[field.v.04] as in: select (a team or individual player) for a game

Examples:
The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl

Origins

					field (English)
└── field (Middle English (1100-1500))