Field (f ld), Cyrus West 1819-1892. American merchant and financier who planned and oversaw the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable (completed 1866). |
Field, Eugene 1850-1895. American writer known for his children's verse, especially "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod" and "Little Boy Blue." |
field (fld)n.1. a. A broad, level, open expanse of land. b. A meadow: a field of buttercups. c. A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop: a field of corn. d. A portion of land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource. e. A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice. 2. a. A battleground. b. A battle. c. The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers. d. A military area away from headquarters. 3. a. A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin: a blue insignia on a field of red. b. Heraldry The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background. 4. Sports a. An area in which an athletic event takes place. b. The portion of a playing field having specific dimensions on which the action of a game takes place. c. All the contestants or participants in an event, especially all the contestants except the favorite or the winner in a contest of more than two. d. The members of a team engaged in active play. e. The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting. 5. a. An area of human activity or interest: several fields of endeavor. b. A topic, subject, or area of academic interest or specialization. c. Profession, employment, or business. d. An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory: biologists working in the field; a product tested in the field. e. An area or region where business activities are conducted: sales representatives in the field. 6. Mathematics A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition, that the set is a group under addition, and that the elements with the exception of the additive identity form a group under multiplication. 7. Physics A region of space characterized by a physical property, such as gravitational or electromagnetic force or fluid pressure, having a determinable value at every point in the region. 8. The usually circular area in which the image is rendered by the lens system of an optical instrument. Also called field of view. 9. Computer Science a. A defined area of a storage medium, such as a set of bit locations or a set of adjacent columns on a punch card, used to record a type of information consistently. b. An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored. c. An interface element in a GUI that accepts the input of text. adj.1. Growing, cultivated, or living in fields or open land. 2. Made, used, or carried on in the field: field operations. 3. Working, operating, or active in the field: field representatives of a firm. v. field·ed, field·ing, fields v.tr.1. Sports a. To retrieve (a ball) and perform the required maneuver, especially in baseball. b. To place in the field to play: field a team. 2. To give an unrehearsed response to: fielded tough questions from the press. 3. a. To place in competition. b. To put into action: field an army of campaign workers. v.intr. Sports To play as a fielder. Idiom: take the field To begin or resume activity, as in military operations or in a sport.
[Middle English, from Old English feld; see pel -2 in Indo-European roots.] Synonyms: field, bailiwick, domain, province, realm, sphere, territory
These nouns denote an area of activity, thought, study, or interest: the field of comparative literature; considers marketing to be her bailiwick; the domain of physics; the province of politics; the realm of constitutional law; a task within his assistant's sphere; the territory of historical research. |
field Noun 1. an area of uncultivated grassland; meadow 2. a piece of cleared land used for pasture or growing crops 3. a marked off area on which sports or athletic competitions are held 4. an area that is rich in minerals or other natural resources: an oil field 5. a. all the competitors in a competition b. the competitors in a competition excluding the favourite 6. a battlefield 7. Cricket the fielders collectively 8. a wide expanse of land covered by some substance such as snow or lava 9. an area of human activity or knowledge: the most distinguished physicist in the field of quantum physics 10. a place away from the laboratory or classroom where practical work is done 11. the surface or background of something, such as a flag 12. Physics In full: (field of force) the region surrounding a body, such as a magnet, within which it can exert a force on another similar body not in contact with it 13. play the field Informal to have many romantic relationships before getting married Adjective Mil of equipment or personnel for operations in the field: field guns Verb 1. Sport to catch or return (the ball) as a fielder 2. Sport to send (a player or team) onto the field to play 3. Sport (of a player or team) to act or take turn as a fielder or fielders 4. Informal to deal successfully with (a question or remark) [Old English feld]
field (fld)1. A distribution in a region of space of the strength and direction of a force, such as the electrostatic force near an electrically charged object, that would act on a body at any given point in that region. See also electric fieldmagnetic field 2. The region whose image is visible to the eye or accessible to an optical instrument. 3. A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition, that the set is a group under addition, and that the elements with the exception of the additive identity (0) form a group under multiplication. The set of all rational numbers is a field. 4. a. In a database, a space for a single item of information contained in a record. b. An interface element in a graphical user interface that accepts the input of text. |
Field competitors in a sporting event; the runners in a horse race; a stretch or expanse. Examples: field of benefits, 1577; of clouds, 1860; of cricketers, 1850; of hounds [hunting], 1806; of horses [racing], 1771; of huntsmen, 1806; of ignorance, 1847; of miracles, 1712; of raillery; of runners [in races]; of stars, 1608; of woes, 1590.
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms | Noun | 1. |  field - a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"curtilage, grounds, yard - the enclosed land around a house or other building; "it was a small house with almost no yard" campus - a field on which the buildings of a university are situated firebreak, fireguard - a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire lawn - a field of cultivated and mowed grass | | 2. |  field - a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"sector - a portion of a military position | | 3. | field - 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"region - a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions" | | 4. | field - 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"communication theory, communications - the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.); "communications is his major field of study" major - the principal field of study of a student at a university; "her major is linguistics" frontier - an undeveloped field of study; a topic inviting research and development; "he worked at the frontier of brain science" genealogy - the study or investigation of ancestry and family history allometry - the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole bibliotics - the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity ology - an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge architecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use" futuristics, futurology - the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions theology, divinity - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth escapology - the study of methods of escaping (especially as a form of entertainment) graphology - the study of handwriting (especially as an indicator of the writer's character or disposition) numerology - the study of the supposed occult influence of numbers on human affairs protology - the study of origins and first things; "To Christians, protology refers to God's fundamental purpose for humanity" theogony - the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods | | 5. |  field - the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with itphysical phenomenon - a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy radiation field - a field that represents the energy lost from the radiator to space | | 6. | field - a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field" | | 7. |  field - 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"environment - the totality of surrounding conditions; "he longed for the comfortable environment of his living room" distaff - the sphere of work by women front - a sphere of activity involving effort; "the Japanese were active last week on the diplomatic front"; "they advertise on many different fronts" kingdom, realm, land - a domain in which something is dominant; "the untroubled kingdom of reason"; "a land of make-believe"; "the rise of the realm of cotton in the south" lap - an area of control or responsibility; "the job fell right in my lap" preserve - a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone; "medicine is no longer a male preserve" province, responsibility - the proper sphere or extent of your activities; "it was his province to take care of himself" | | 8. |  field - a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"court - a specially marked horizontal area within which a game is played; "players had to reserve a court in advance" palaestra, palestra - a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes midfield - (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse) | | 9. |  field - extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"flat - a level tract of land; "the salt flats of Utah" flood plain, floodplain - a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding dry land, ground, solid ground, terra firma, earth, land - the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several minutes"; "he dropped the logs on the ground" llano - an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America) moorland, moor - open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss peneplain, peneplane - a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements steppe - extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia) tundra - a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen | | 10. | field - (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"math, mathematics, maths - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement set - (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols; "the set of prime numbers is infinite" | | 11. | field - 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"region - a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions" | | 12. | field - all of the horses in a particular horse raceset - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" | | 13. | field - all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting eventset - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" | | 14. | field - a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"coalfield - a region where there is coal underground gasfield - a region where there is natural gas underground oilfield - a region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells) | | 15. | field - (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of informationcomputer science, computing - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures set - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used; "a set of books"; "a set of golf clubs"; "a set of teeth" bit field - a field containing only binary characters | | 16. | field - the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) | | 17. |  field - a place where planes take off and landapron - a paved surface where aircraft stand while not being used facility, installation - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry; "the assembly plant is an enormous facility" runway - a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land taxi strip, taxiway - a paved surface in the form of a strip; used by planes taxiing to or from the runway at an airport flight line - place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways) | | Verb | 1. | field - catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricketpalm, handle - touch, lift, or hold with the hands; "Don't handle the merchandise" | | 2. | field - play as a fielderathletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition play - participate in games or sport; "We played hockey all afternoon"; "play cards"; "Pele played for the Brazilian teams in many important matches" | | 3. | field - answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"answer, reply, respond - react verbally; "She didn't want to answer"; "answer the question"; "We answered that we would accept the invitation" | | 4. | field - select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"choose, pick out, select, take - pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives; "Take any one of these cards"; "Choose a good husband for your daughter"; "She selected a pair of shoes from among the dozen the salesgirl had shown her" |
field noun 2. speciality, line, area, department, environment, territory, discipline, province, pale, confines, sphere, domain, specialty, sphere of influence, purview, metier, sphere of activity, bailiwick, sphere of interest, sphere of study noun 4. competitors, competition, candidates, runners, applicants, entrants, contestants  Translations field [fiːld] n ( gen), ( COMPUT) → campo; ( SPORT) → campo, cancha (LAM) (= competitors); competidores mplcpd to have a field day ( fig) → ponerse las botas; to lead the field ( SPORT, COMM) → llevar la delantera;
 field [fiːld] n → champ m ( fig); domaine m, champ; to lead the field ( Sport, Comm) → dominer;
 field [fiːld] n → Feld nt; ( Sport) ( ground) → Platz m; ( subject, area of interest) → Gebiet nt; (Comput) → Datenfeld nt
 field [fiːld] n ( gen), ( COMPUT) → campo;
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