field
n 1: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he
planted a field of wheat"
2: a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they
made a tour of Civil War battlefields" [syn: {battlefield},
{battleground}, {field of battle}]
3: 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"
4: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his
doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their
subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
[syn: {discipline}, {subject}, {subject area}, {subject
field}, {field of study}, {study}, {branch of knowledge}]
5: the space around a body within which it can exert force on
another similar body not in contact with it [syn: {field
of force}, {force field}]
6: a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are
outstanding in their field" [syn: {field of operation}, {line
of business}]
7: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere
is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's
out of my orbit" [syn: {sphere}, {domain}, {area}, {orbit},
{arena}]
8: a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd
cheered when Princeton took the field" [syn: {playing
field}, {athletic field}, {playing area}]
9: extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the
woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields
of his youth" [syn: {plain}, {champaign}]
10: 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"
11: a region in which military operations are in progress; "the
army was in the field awaiting action"
12: (horse racing) all of the horses in a particular race
13: all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting
event
14: a geographic region (land or sea) under which something
valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"
15: the area that is visible through an optical instrument [syn:
{field of view}]
16: a place where planes take off and land [syn: {airfield}, {landing
field}, {flying field}]
v 1: catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
2: play as a fielder, in baseball or cricket
3: answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fileded all
questions from the press"