fields Meaning, Definition & Usage

1. noun United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)
   W. C. Fields; William Claude Dukenfield.
   
2. noun a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
   field.
   
   • he planted a field of wheat
3. noun a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
   battlefield; battleground; field; field of battle; field of honor.
   
   • they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
4. noun somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
   field.
   
   • anthropologists do much of their work in the field
5. noun a branch of knowledge
   discipline; subject field; field of study; study; subject area; field; bailiwick; subject.
   
   • in what discipline is his doctorate?
   • teachers should be well trained in their subject
   • anthropology is the study of human beings
6. noun the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
   field; force field; field of force.
   
7. noun a particular kind of commercial enterprise
   field; line of business; field of operation.
   
   • they are outstanding in their field
8. noun a particular environment or walk of life
   arena; domain; sphere; area; orbit; field.
   
   • his social sphere is limited
   • it was a closed area of employment
   • he's out of my orbit
9. noun a piece of land prepared for playing a game
   field; playing field; athletic field; playing area.
   
   • the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
10. noun extensive tract of level open land
    plain; champaign; field.
    
    • they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
    • he longed for the fields of his youth
11. 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
    field.
    
    • the set of all rational numbers is a field
12. noun a region in which active military operations are in progress
    theater; theatre of operations; theatre; field of operations; theater of operations; field.
    
    • the army was in the field awaiting action
    • he served in the Vietnam theater for three years
13. noun all of the horses in a particular horse race
    field.
    
14. noun all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
    field.
    
15. noun a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
    field.
    
    • the diamond fields of South Africa
16. noun (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
    field.
    
17. noun the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
    field; field of view.
    
18. noun a place where planes take off and land
    airfield; flying field; landing field; field.
    
19. verb catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
    field.
    
20. verb play as a fielder
    field.
    
21. verb answer adequately or successfully
    field.
    
    • The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
22. verb select (a team or individual player) for a game
    field.
    
    • The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl

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