field

noun fields

1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country. There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
2. plural normally The open country near or belonging to a town or city. Harry shook his head, and wandered away miserable through the fields, and would not in these days even set his foot upon the soil of the park. “He was not going to intrude any farther,” he said to the rector. “You can come to church, at any rate,” his father said, “for he certainly will not be there
3. A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier. There were some cows grazing in a field.
4. When coupled with a number (e.g. two-field) used to define types of crop rotation, denoting the number of different crop types (and possibly fallow) that are used.
5. A region containing a particular mineral. an oil field; a gold field
6. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
7. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield. Tarry, sweet soul, for mine; then fly abreast, As in this glorious and well-foughten field We kept together in our chivalry!
8. An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force. soccer field
9. 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).
10. The outfield.
11. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
12. A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals. Dr. Finn understood enough of elections for Parliament, and of the nature of boroughs, to be aware that a candidate’s chance of success is very much improved by being early in the field.
13. metonymically All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting. This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.
14. A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity. magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field
15. The extent of a given perception. field of view
16. A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory. The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.
17. A domain of study, knowledge or practice. As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.

    Similar: area, domain, sphere, realm

18. An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement. Penn was without doubt a man of eminent virtues. He had a strong sense of religious duty and a fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. On one or two points of high importance, he had notions more correct than were, in his day, common even among men of enlarged minds: and as the proprieto
19. A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring. The set of rational numbers, #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;, is the prototypical field.
20. The background of the shield. The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain.
21. The background of the flag.
22. The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
23. A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data. The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and shipping address.
24. A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
25. An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls. Read-only fields allow you to establish a point of data whose value is not known at compile time, but that should never change once established.
26. Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
27. archaic Archaic form of fielder The manager should always choose his own Eleven; and, we have already hinted that fielding, rather than batting, is the qualification. A good field is sure to save runs, though the best batsman may not make any.

Similar: course, court, ground, pitch, input field, box

verb fields · fielding · fielded

1. transitive To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
2. intransitive To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it. The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
3. transitive To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game. The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
4. transitive To answer; to address. She will field questions immediately after her presentation.

   Similar: address, answer, deal with, respond to

5. transitive To execute research (in the field). He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.
6. transitive To deploy in the field. to field a new land-mine detector

Opposite: bat

proper noun Feild

1. A surname. Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.
2. A community near Field Hill within Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada, named after Cyrus West Field.
3. A community in West Nipissing, Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
4. An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
5. A neighbourhood of Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
6. A locality in Coorong council area, south-east South Australia.
7. A hamlet in Eardisley parish, Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO3050).
8. A neighbourhood in Shepton Mallet parish, Somerset, England, previously in Mendip district (OS grid ref ST6142).
9. A hamlet in Leigh parish, East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0233).