FIELD

Definition

1. verb catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.
2. verb play as a fielder.
3. verb answer adequately or successfully.
4. verb select (a team or individual player) for a game.
5. noun a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
6. noun a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought. — synonyms: battlefield, battleground, field_of_battle, field_of_honor
7. noun somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected.
8. noun a branch of knowledge. — synonyms: discipline, subject, subject_area, subject_field, field_of_study, study, bailiwick
9. noun the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it. — synonyms: field_of_force, force_field
10. noun a particular kind of commercial enterprise. — synonyms: field_of_operation, line_of_business
11. noun a particular environment or walk of life. — synonyms: sphere, domain, area, orbit, arena
12. noun a piece of land prepared for playing a game. — synonyms: playing_field, athletic_field, playing_area
13. noun extensive tract of level open land. — synonyms: plain, champaign
14. 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.
15. noun a region in which active military operations are in progress. — synonyms: field_of_operations, theater, theater_of_operations, theatre, theatre_of_operations
16. noun all of the horses in a particular horse race.
17. noun all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event.
18. noun a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found.
19. noun (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information.
20. noun the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument). — synonyms: field_of_view
21. noun a place where planes take off and land. — synonyms: airfield, landing_field, flying_field