1. A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
   "he planted a field of wheat"
    
2. Extensive tract of level open land
   "he longed for the fields of his youth";
   - plain, champaign [archaic], flatland
    
3. A piece of land prepared for playing a game
   "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field";
   - playing field, athletic field, playing area, pitch [Brit]
    
4. A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
   "they made a tour of Civil War fields of honour"; "Archaeologists excavated artifacts from the ancient field of battle";
   - battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor [US]
    
5. 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"
    
6. A branch of knowledge
   "in what subject field is his doctorate?";
   - discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field of study, study, bailiwick
    
7. A particular environment or walk of life
   "his social field is limited";
   - sphere, domain, area, orbit, arena
    
8. A particular kind of commercial enterprise
   "they are outstanding in their field";
   - field of operation, line of business
    
9. The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
   "The field of force around a magnet can be visualized using iron filings"; "The scientists studied the force field surrounding the magnet";
   - field of force, force field
    
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. (military) a region in which active military operations are in progress
    "the army was in the field awaiting action";
    - field of operations, theater [US], theater of operations [US], theatre, theatre of operations
     
12. (horse racing) all of the horses in a particular horse race
    "The field for the Kentucky Derby included several top contenders"
     
13. All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
    "The marathon had a strong field of elite runners"
     
14. A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
    "the diamond fields of South Africa"
     
15. (computing) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
    "The database table included fields for name, address, and phone number"
     
16. The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
    "The telescope's field of view encompassed the entire galaxy cluster";
    - field of view
     
17. A place where planes take off and land
    "The small landing field served mostly private and charter planes";
    - airfield, landing field, flying field

1. Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
   "The shortstop fielded the ground ball cleanly"
    
2. (sport) play as a fielder
   "He fielded at third base"
    
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"

Derived forms: fielding, fields, fielded

Type of: answer, business, business enterprise, choose, commercial enterprise, domain, dry land, earth, environment, facility, geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, ground, handle, installation, knowledge base, knowledge domain, land, palm, parcel, parcel of land, physical phenomenon, pick out, piece of ground, piece of land, play, region, reply, respond, select, set, solid ground, take, terra firma, tract, visual image, visual percept

Part of: arena, bowl [N. Amer], sports stadium, stadium, theater of war [US], theatre of war, transit [N. Amer], transportation, transportation system

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