Field - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |fiːld|  American pronunciation of the word field
Brit.  |fiːld|  British pronunciation of the word field

noun

- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
he planted a field of wheat
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought (syn: battlefield, battleground)
they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
- 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 branch of knowledge (syn: bailiwick, discipline, study, subject)
- the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- a particular kind of commercial enterprise
they are outstanding in their field
- a particular environment or walk of life (syn: area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere)
- a piece of land prepared for playing a game
the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
- extensive tract of level open land (syn: champaign, plain)
he longed for the fields of his youth
- (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
- a region in which active military operations are in progress (syn: theater, theatre)
the army was in the field awaiting action
- all of the horses in a particular horse race
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
the diamond fields of South Africa
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- a place where planes take off and land (syn: airfield)

verb

- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- play as a fielder
- answer adequately or successfully
The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
- select (a team or individual player) for a game
The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl

Extra examples

He gazed out across the fields.

She hopes to find work in the health field.

She is a pioneer in the field of genetic research.

A lawyer who is eminent in his field

Working in his chosen field

A fascinating field of endeavor

The shortstop fielded the ground ball.

A shortstop who fields his position flawlessly

Last week she fielded two offers on her house.

His secretary will field requests for more information.

The senator fielded the reporters' questions.

They expect to field a strong team this year.

The greatest fighting force that any nation has ever fielded

The horses were turned loose in the field.

He discloses to us the whole field of his ignorance.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: field
he/she/it: fields
present participle: fielding
past tense: fielded
past participle: fielded
noun
singular: field
plural: fields
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