Definition of 'field'
Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense fields
, present participle fielding
, past tense, past participle fielded
1. countable noun
A field is an area of grass, for example in a park or on a farm. A field is also an area of land on which a crop is grown.
3. countable noun
4. countable noun
A magnetic, gravitational, or electric field is the area in which that particular force is strong enough to have an effect.
5. countable noun
A particular field is a particular subject of study or type of activity.
Exciting artistic breakthroughs have recently occurred in the fields of painting,
sculpture and architecture. [+ of]
6. countable noun
A field is an area of a computer's memory or a program where data can be entered, edited, or stored.
[computing] 7. countable noun
You can refer to the area where fighting or other military action in a war takes place
as the field or the field of battle.
8. countable noun
Your field of vision or your visual field is the area that you can see without turning your head.
9. countable noun [with singular or plural verb, usually singular]
The field is a way of referring to all the competitors taking part in a particular race or
sports contest.
10. adjective [ADJECTIVE noun]
You use field to describe work or study that is done in a real, natural environment rather than
in a theoretical way or in controlled conditions.
11. verb [usually cont]
In a game of cricket, baseball, or rounders, the team that is fielding is trying to catch the ball, while the other team is trying to hit it.
[Also VERB noun]12. verb
13. verb
If a sports team fields a particular number or type of players, the players are chosen to play for the team
on a particular occasion.
14. verb
If a candidate in an election is representing a political party, you can say that
the party is fielding that candidate.
[journalism] 15. See also coalfield, minefield, playing field, snowfield
16.
See have a field day
17.
See in the field
18.
See lead the field
19.
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field in British English
noun
2.
a piece of land cleared of trees and undergrowth, usually enclosed with a fence or hedge and used for pasture or growing crops
a field of barley
3.
a limited or marked off area, usually of mown grass, on which any of various sports, athletic competitions, etc, are held
a soccer field
4.
an area that is rich in minerals or other natural resources
a coalfield
5. short for battlefield, airfield
7.
a.
all the runners in a particular race or competitors in a competition
b.
the runners in a race or competitors in a competition excluding the favourite
10.
a.
an area of human activity
the field of human knowledge
b.
a sphere or division of knowledge, interest, etc
his field is physics
11.
a.
a place away from the laboratory, office, library, etc, usually out of doors, where practical work is done or original material or
data collected
b.
(as modifier)
a field course
12.
13. Also called: field of view
the area within which an object may be observed with a telescope, microscope, etc
14. physics
a. See field of force
b.
a region of space that is a vector field
c.
a region of space under the influence of some scalar quantity, such as temperature
15. mathematics
a set of entities subject to two binary operations, addition and multiplication, such that the set is a commutative group under addition and the set, minus the zero, is a commutative group under multiplication
and multiplication is distributive over addition
16. mathematics, logic
the set of elements that are either arguments or values of a function; the union of
its domain and range
17. computing
a.
a set of one or more characters comprising a unit of information
b.
a predetermined section of a record
18. television
one of two or more sets of scanning lines which when interlaced form the complete picture
19. obsolete
the open country
beasts of the field
20. See hold the field
21. See in the field
22. See lead the field
23. See leave the field
24. See take the field
25. See play the field
26. (modifier) military
of or relating to equipment, personnel, etc, specifically designed or trained for operations in the field
a field gun
a field army
verb
27. (transitive) sport
to stop, catch, or return (the ball) as a fielder
28. (transitive) sport
to send (a player or team) onto the field to play
29. (intransitive) sport
(of a player or team) to act or take turn as a fielder or fielders
30. (transitive) military
to put (an army, a unit, etc) in the field
31. (transitive)
to enter (a person) in a competition
each party fielded a candidate
32. (transitive) informal
to deal with or handle, esp adequately and by making a reciprocal gesture
to field a question
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Word origin
Old English feld; related to Old Saxon, Old High German feld, Old English fold earth, Greek platus broad
Word Frequency
Field in American English
Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Word Frequency
field in American English
noun
1.
a wide stretch of open land; plain
2.
a piece of cleared land, set off or enclosed, for raising crops or pasturing livestock
3.
a piece of land used for some particular purpose
a landing field
4.
an area of land producing some natural resource
a gold field
8.
a.
an area where practical work is done, as by a social worker, geologist, etc., away
from the central office, laboratory, or the like
usually with the camping equipment tested in the field
9.
an area of observation, as in a microscope
10.
the background, as on a flag or coin
11.
a.
an area where games or athletic events are held
b.
the part of such an area, usually inside a closed racing track, where contests in
the high jump, long jump, shot put, pole vault, etc. are held
d.
all the entrants in a contest
e.
all the entrants in a contest except the one(s) specified
13. Heraldry
the surface or part of the surface of a shield
14. Horse Racing
15. Ancient Mathematics
a set of numbers or other algebraic elements for which arithmetic operations (except for division by zero) are defined in a consistent manner to yield another element of the set
16. Physics
17. Television
a.
the area viewed by the camera
b.
the area that the scanning element covers in one vertical sweep
adjective
18.
of, operating in, or held on the field or fields
19.
growing in fields; having a field as its habitat
verb transitive
20.
b.
to put (a team or player) in the field for a game or competition
21.
to position in a given location
to field an army
22. Informal
a.
to answer (a question) extemporaneously
b.
to deal with; handle
to field phone calls
verb intransitive
23. Baseball and Cricket
to play as a fielder
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
Word origin
ME feld < OE, akin to Ger feld, Du veld < IE *pelt- < base *pele-, *pla-, flat and broad > L planus, plane, Gr palamē, flat hand
Word Frequency
field in American English
(fild)
noun
1.
an expanse of open or cleared ground, esp. a piece of land suitable or used for pasture
or tillage
2. Sport
a.
a piece of ground devoted to sports or contests; playing field
b. (in betting)
all the contestants or numbers that are grouped together as one
to bet on the field in a horse race
c. (in football)
the players on the playing ground
d.
the area in which field events are held
3. Baseball
a.
the team in the field, as opposed to the one at bat
b.
the outfield
4.
a sphere of activity, interest, etc., esp. within a particular business or profession
the field of teaching
the field of Shakespearean scholarship
5.
the area or region drawn on or serviced by a business or profession; outlying areas where business activities or operations are carried on, as opposed to a home
or branch office
our representatives in the field
7. Military
a.
the scene or area of active military operations
b.
a battleground
c.
a battle
8.
an expanse of anything
a field of ice
9.
any region characterized by a particular feature, resource, activity, etc.
a gold field
10.
a gold star on a field of blue
11. (in a flag)
the ground of each division
12. Physics
the influence of some agent, as electricity or gravitation, considered as existing at all points in space and defined by the force it would exert on an object placed at any point in space
Compare electric field, gravitational field, magnetic field13. Also called: field of view Optics
14. Electricity
15. Math
a number system that has the same properties relative to the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as the number system of all real numbers; a commutative
division ring
17. Psychology
the total complex of interdependent factors within which a psychological event occurs and is perceived as occurring
18. Computing
a.
one or more related characters treated as a unit and constituting part of a record,
for purposes of input, processing, output, or storage by a computer
If the hours-worked field is blank or zero, the program does not write a check for
that employee
b. (in a punch card)
any number of columns regularly used for recording the same information
19. Television
one half of the scanning lines required to form a complete television frame. In the
U.S., two fields are displayed in 1/30 second: all the odd-numbered lines in one field
and all the even lines in the next field
Compare frame (sense 9)21. (in fox hunting)
22. Heraldry
the whole area or background of an escutcheon
23. See in the field
24. See keep the field
25. See out in left field
26. See play the field
27. See take the field
transitive verb
28. Baseball & Cricket
a.
to catch or pick up (the ball) in play
The shortstop fielded the grounder and threw to first for the out
b.
to place (a player, group of players, or a team) in the field to play
29.
to place in competition
to field a candidate for governor
31.
to put into action or on duty
to field police cars to patrol an area
32. informal
to test (a device or product) under various conditions of actual use; field-test
intransitive verb Baseball & Cricket
33.
to act as a fielder; field the ball
34.
to take to the field
adjective
35. Sport
a.
b.
of or pertaining to field events
36. Military
of or pertaining to campaign and active combat service as distinguished from service in rear areas or at headquarters
a field soldier
37.
of or pertaining to a field
38.
grown or cultivated in a field
39.
working in the fields of a farm
field laborers
40.
working as a salesperson, engineer, representative, etc., in the field
an insurance company's field agents
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Word origin
[bef. 1000; ME, OE feld; c. G Feld]Word Frequency
field in Electrical Engineering
(fild)
Word forms: (regular plural) fields
noun
(Electrical engineering: Circuits, Electrical power)
electric field, electromagnetic field, field windingAn electric or magnetic field is the area in which an electrically charged body or a magnetized body has an effect.
The electricity entering the house runs through a pair of loops that induce a magnetic
field.
The electric field set up inside the tube excites atoms of mercury gas, making them emit ultraviolet
light.
An electric or magnetic field is the area in which an electrically charged body or a magnetized body has an effect.
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one of four more or less equal quadrants into which a shield may be divided
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a horizontal division of a shield, one quarter of the depth of the chief
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a conventional description or depiction of heraldic arms
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any of various stylized representations of animal pelts or their tinctures, esp ermine or vair, used in coats of arms
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British English: field
/fiːld/ NOUN
A field is an enclosed area of land where crops are grown or animals are kept.
...a field of wheat.
- American English: field /ˈfild/
- Arabic: حَقْل
- Brazilian Portuguese: campo
- Chinese: 田
- Croatian: polje
- Czech: pole
- Danish: mark
- Dutch: veld
- European Spanish: campo
- Finnish: pelto
- French: champ
- German: Feld
- Greek: πεδίο
- Italian: campo
- Japanese: 野原
- Korean: 들판
- Norwegian: jorde
- Polish: pole
- European Portuguese: campo
- Romanian: câmp
- Russian: поле
- Latin American Spanish: campo
- Swedish: fält
- Thai: ทุ่งนา
- Turkish: alan yer
- Ukrainian: поле
- Vietnamese: cánh đồng
British English: field
VERB /fiːld/
In a game of cricket, baseball, or rounders, the team that is fielding is trying to catch the ball, while the other team is trying to hit it.
When we are fielding, the umpires keep looking at the ball.
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