field

Definitions of field in various dictionaries:

noun - a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

noun - a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

noun - somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected

noun - a branch of knowledge

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 - a particular kind of commercial enterprise

noun - a particular environment or walk of life

noun - a piece of land prepared for playing a game

noun - extensive tract of level open land

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

noun - a region in which active military operations are in progress

noun - all of the horses in a particular horse race

noun - all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

noun - a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

noun - (computer science) a set of one or more adj acent characters comprising a unit of information

noun - the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

noun - a place where planes take off and land

verb - catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

verb - play as a fielder

verb - answer adequately or successfully

verb - select (a team or individual player) for a game

A broad, level, open expanse of land.

A meadow: a field of buttercups.

A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop: a field of corn.

A portion of land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource.

A wide, unbroken expanse, as of ice.

A battleground.

A battle.

The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers.

A military area away from headquarters.

A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin: a blue insignia on a field of red.

The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background.

Sports.

An area in which an athletic event takes place.

The portion of a playing field having specific dimensions on which the action of a game takes place.

All the contestants or participants in an event, especially all the contestants except the favorite or the winner in a contest of more than two.

The members of a team engaged in active play.

The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.

An area of human activity or interest: several fields of endeavor.

A topic, a subject, or an area of academic interest or specialization.

Profession, employment, or business.

An area or a setting of practical activity or application outside an office, a school, a factory, or a laboratory: biologists working in the field; a product tested in the field.

An area or a region where business activities are conducted: sales representatives in the field.

A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition and that both operations are associative and commutative for all elements of the set, with the exception of the additive identity element, which is not commutative in respect to multiplication.

A region of space characterized by a physical property, such as gravitational or electromagnetic force or fluid pressure, having a determinable value at every point in the region.

The usually circular area in which the image is rendered by the lens system of an optical instrument.

Computer Science.

A defined area of a storage medium, such as a set of bit locations or a set of adj acent columns on a punch card, used to record a type of information consistently.

An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.

Growing, cultivated, or living in fields or open land.

Made, used, or carried on in the field: field operations.

Working, operating, or active in the field: field representatives of a firm.

Sports.

To retrieve (a ball) and perform the required maneuver, especially in baseball.

To place in the field to play: field a team.

To give an unrehearsed response to: fielded tough questions from the press.

To place in competition.

To play as a fielder.

verb - to play as a fielder