Field Meaning

There are 21 meaning(s) for word Field

Meaning 1 : a branch of knowledge

    Synonyms : bailiwick,  discipline,  field of study,  study,  subject,  subject area,  subject field
Meaning 2 : a particular kind of commercial enterprise

    Example : they are outstanding in their field

    Synonyms : field of operation,  line of business
Meaning 3 : the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

    Synonyms : field of view
Meaning 4 : a particular environment or walk of life

    Synonyms : area,  arena,  domain,  orbit,  sphere
Meaning 5 : 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
Meaning 6 : a piece of land prepared for playing a game

    Example : the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field

    Synonyms : athletic field,  playing area,  playing field
Meaning 7 : a place where planes take off and land

    Synonyms : airfield,  flying field,  landing field
Meaning 8 : extensive tract of level open land

    Example : he longed for the fields of his youth

    Synonyms : champaign,  plain
Meaning 9 : a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

    Example : they made a tour of Civil War battlefields

    Synonyms : battlefield,  battleground,  field of battle,  field of honor
Meaning 10 : a region in which active military operations are in progress

    Example : the army was in the field awaiting action

    Synonyms : field of operations,  theater,  theater of operations,  theatre,  theatre of operations
Meaning 11 : a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

    Example : the diamond fields of South Africa

Meaning 12 : all of the horses in a particular horse race

Meaning 13 : all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

Meaning 14 : answer adequately or successfully

    Example : The lawyer fielded all questions from the press

Meaning 15 : a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

    Example : he planted a field of wheat

Meaning 16 : catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

Meaning 17 : (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

Meaning 18 : (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

    Example : the set of all rational numbers is a field

Meaning 19 : play as a fielder

Meaning 20 : select (a team or individual player) for a game

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

Meaning 21 : somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected

    Example : anthropologists do much of their work in the field

How to Pronounce Field

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