field meaning and definition

FIELD noun

Definition of field (noun)

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"
   • synonyms: battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor
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"
   • synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field
5. the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
   • synonyms: field of force, force field
6. a particular kind of commercial enterprise
   • "they are outstanding in their field"
   • synonyms: 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"
   • synonyms: area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere
8. a piece of land prepared for playing a game
   • "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
   • synonyms: athletic field, playing area, playing field
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"
   • synonyms: champaign, plain
10. (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"
11. a region in which active military operations are in progress
    • "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
    • synonyms: field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations
12. all of the horses in a particular horse 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. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
16. the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
    • synonyms: field of view
17. a place where planes take off and land
    • synonyms: airfield, flying field, landing field

FIELD verb

Definition of field (verb)

1. catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
2. play as a fielder
3. answer adequately or successfully
   • "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
4. select (a team or individual player) for a game
   • "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"