field
IPA: fˈiɫd
noun
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
- (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
- (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
- (baseball) The outfield.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
- (metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
- Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
- (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
- Any of certain structures serving cognition.
- The extent of a given perception.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
- (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
- A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
- (heraldry) The background of the shield.
- (vexillology) The background of the flag.
- The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal
- A surname.
- An unincorporated community near Field Hill within Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada, named after Cyrus West Field.
- A community in West Nipissing, Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
- A neighbourhood of Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- A locality in south-east South Australia.
- A hamlet in Leigh parish, East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0233).
- (cricket) Archaic form of fielder. [A dog trained in pursuit of game in the field.]
verb
- (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
- (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- (transitive) To answer; to address.
- (transitive) To defeat.
- (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
- (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
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