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US
/ˈfiɫd/
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[ UK /fˈiːld/ ]
[ UK /fˈiːld/ ]
NOUN
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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
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a region in which active military operations are in progress
he served in the Vietnam theater for three years
the army was in the field awaiting action - the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
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extensive tract of level open land
they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
he longed for the fields of his youth -
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
they made a tour of Civil War battlefields - the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
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a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
he planted a field of wheat -
a branch of knowledge
anthropology is the study of human beings
in what discipline is his doctorate?
teachers should be well trained in their subject -
a piece of land prepared for playing a game
the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field -
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
the diamond fields of South Africa -
a particular kind of commercial enterprise
they are outstanding in their field - all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
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a particular environment or walk of life
it was a closed area of employment
his social sphere is limited
he's out of my orbit - a place where planes take off and land
VERB
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
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select (a team or individual player) for a game
The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl -
answer adequately or successfully
The lawyer fielded all questions from the press - play as a fielder
How To Use field In A Sentence
- A few fields have the remains of small sunken stone dwellings, intimate as those at Skara Brae.
- There were a few cows dotted around in the field.
- The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton. Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
- Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
- I first learned about cassowaries when I was at the School for Field Studies SFS Center for Rainforest Studies in Fall of 1990 as a college student, and was fascinated that they're the only bird that can "scarify" certain rainforest seeds. Archive 2008-07-01
- But they want it knocked back into a field of muck and dirt. Times, Sunday Times
- On Friday, we thought we'd try lunch at the Stag and Hounds in Binfield, but there wasn't a table free, so we'd headed back homewards and went to the poshest place in the village.
- As a holder of the Combat Infantrymans Badge, it and my Parachute badge are still on my old field jacket, as is the 173 Abn Bde patch on the right shoulder. Why Life is Now More Complicated
- At the extent of about 1/3 of the center of emission rim, the stimulated field density varies a little, can be basically considered as uniform field.
- In a field where biological material is limited, experimental cytogenetic techniques often require only a few cells.
