[ US /ˈfiɫd/ ]
[ UK /fˈiːld/ ]
NOUN
  1. 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
  2. (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
  3. all of the horses in a particular horse race
  4. 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
  5. the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
  6. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
  7. extensive tract of level open land
    they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
    he longed for the fields of his youth
  8. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
    they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
  9. the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
  10. a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
    he planted a field of wheat
  11. 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
  12. a piece of land prepared for playing a game
    the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
  13. a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
    the diamond fields of South Africa
  14. a particular kind of commercial enterprise
    they are outstanding in their field
  15. all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
  16. 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
  17. a place where planes take off and land
VERB
  1. catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
  2. select (a team or individual player) for a game
    The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl
  3. answer adequately or successfully
    The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
  4. play as a fielder
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How To Use field In A Sentence

  • Concentration now had to be aimed at the means of transporting the aircraft from the field to the carrier in Glasgow.
  • But they want it knocked back into a field of muck and dirt. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • In a field where biological material is limited, experimental cytogenetic techniques often require only a few cells.
  • We ask for a level playing field when we compete with foreign companies.
  • We had to walk across a ploughed field.
  • The pilot shut off the motors and glided down to the landing field.
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