field in English dictionary

  • field

    Meanings and definitions of "field"

    • A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
    • A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
    • The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural.
    • (physics) A region affected by a particular force.
    • A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
    • (algebra) A set having two operations called addition and multiplication under both of which all the elements of the set are commutative and associative; for which multiplication distributes over addition; and for both of which there exist an identity element and an inverse element (except for the additive identity).
    • (sports) An area reserved for playing a game.
    • (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
    • An area that can be seen at a given time.
    • A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
    • (heraldry) The background of the shield
    • (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
    • (baseball) The team in a match who is throwing the ball and trying to catch the ball hit by the other team (the bat).
    • (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
    • (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
    • (transitive, sports) To place a team in (a game).
    • (transitive) To answer; to address.
    • noun
      A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
    • noun
      A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
    • noun
      The open country near or belonging to a town or city—usually used in plural.
    • noun
      A physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region.
    • noun
      An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
    • noun
      A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
    • noun
      The extent of a given perception.
    • noun
      A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
    • noun
      An area reserved for playing a game.
    • noun
      A realm of practical, direct, or natural operation, contrasting with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
    • noun
      ( algebra) A commutative ring with identity for which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse.
    • noun
      ( geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
    • noun
      ( heraldry) The background of the shield.
    • noun
      ( vexillology) The background of the flag.
    • noun
      ( computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
    • noun
      A component of a database record in which a single unit of information is stored.
    • noun
      A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of characters.
    • noun
      (baseball, obsolete)
      The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
    • noun
      (baseball)
      The outfield.
    • noun
      An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
    • noun
      All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
    • verb
      (transitive, sports)
      To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
    • verb
      (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports)
      To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
    • verb
      (transitive, sports)
      To place a team in (a game).
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To answer; to address.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To defeat.
    • verb
      (transitive)
      To execute research (in the field).
    • verb
      (transitive, military)
      To deploy in the field.
    • A member that represents a variable associated with an object or class.
    • A particular environment or walk of life.
    • the field (in TV)
    • land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country
    • wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals
    • physics: region affected by a particular force
    • course of study or domain of knowledge or practice
    • in mathematics
    • sports: area reserved for playing a game
    • geology: region containing a particular mineral
    • heraldry: background of the shield
    • computing: area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value
    • intercept or catch
    • place a team
    • A single aspect of each member of an entity in a database.
    • field (physics)
    • field (for fruits, vegetables, etc.)
    • field (e.g. of study)
    • field (mil)
    • field (in a form, web page, etc.)
    • A limited area of land with grass or crops growing on it, which is usually surrounded by fences or closely planted bushes when it is part of a farm.
    • (one’s) (special) field (of study)
    • A number system wıth functions that has the same properties relative to the operations of addition and multiplication used for real numbers.
    • A land area free of woodland or human settlements.
    • noun
      all of the horses in a particular horse race
    • noun
      all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
    • noun
      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"
    • noun
      a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"
    • noun
      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"
    • noun
      a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"
    • noun
      a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"
    • noun
      a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
    • noun
      a place where planes take off and land
    • noun
      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"
    • noun
      a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
    • noun
      (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
    • noun
      extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
    • noun
      (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"
    • noun
      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"
    • noun
      the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
    • noun
      the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
    • verb
      answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
    • verb
      catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
    • verb
      play as a fielder
    • verb
      select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"

    Synonyms of "field" in English dictionary

    theater of operations, branch of knowledge, field of study are the top synonyms of "field" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of field

    • field ( plural  fields)
    • lp  liczba pojedyncza field, lm  liczba mnoga fields
    • field ( third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)
    • field (plural fields)
    • field (third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)
  • Field

    Meanings and definitions of "field"

    • A surname.
    • proper
      A surname.
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