field
/ˈfi(ː)ld/noun, verb1 syllable
Field means: a branch of knowledge.
Synonyms for field45
noun, as in a branch of knowledge
noun, as in a region in which active military operations are in progress
noun, as in a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
noun, as in a piece of land prepared for playing a game
noun, as in a place where planes take off and land
noun, as in the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
noun, as in a particular kind of commercial enterprise
noun, as in extensive tract of level open land
noun, as in the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
What does field mean?21
noun
a branch of knowledge“in what discipline is his doctorate?”
a particular environment or walk of life“his social sphere is limited”
a region in which active military operations are in progress“the army was in the field awaiting action”
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought“they made a tour of Civil War battlefields”
a piece of land prepared for playing a game“the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field”
a place where planes take off and land
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”
extensive tract of level open land“they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain”
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed“he planted a field of wheat”
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”
(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”
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
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”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
What rhymes with field?12
Field in a sentence
- The new, more diverse faculty groupings formulated a few rather left-field research questions.papabear
- We were at the mill, near the hemp field.U2FS
- Professional translators quite often specialize in just one field, for example law or medicine.CK
- Let's go to the field and fly kites, what do you say?Eldad
- Even though it was raining, they went on their field trip.CK
- What is your field of study, your domain of inquiry, your major interest?halfb1t
- After sunset, a thin mist appeared over the field.astyng
- The magnets, of course, have a magnetic field around them.kuma
Sentences from Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR, credited to their authors.
Forms of field
as a noun
- plural
- fields
as a verb
- past tense
- fielded
- present participle
- fielding
- third-person singular
- fields
- past participle
- fielded