field

Verb

• 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

• catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

Noun

• a place where planes take off and land

• 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

• a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
  • the diamond fields of South Africa
    

• all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

• all of the horses in a particular horse race

• 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
    

• (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
    

• 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 piece of land prepared for playing a game
  • the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
    

• 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
    

• a particular kind of commercial enterprise
  • they are outstanding in their field
    

• the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

• 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
    

• 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
    

• a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
  • they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
    

• a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
  • he planted a field of wheat
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  airfield , landing field , flying field , field of view , field of operations , theater , theater of operations , theatre , theatre of operations , plain , champaign , playing field , athletic field , playing area , sphere , domain , area , orbit , arena , field of operation , line of business ,