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Noun

1. An area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences.

a wheat field

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2. A piece of land used for a particular purpose, especially an area marked out for a game or sport.

He sees it in all aspects of life, from sports fields to football clubs.

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3. Fielders collectively, or the manner in which they are spread over the pitch.

he sees the ball early and strokes it through the gap in the field

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4. A fielder.

Michael Mclouhglin was the best right field.

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5. A large area of land or water completely covered in a particular substance, especially snow or ice.

These are interpreted to be lava tube conduits feeding the toe of the lava field.

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6. An area rich in a natural product, typically oil or gas.

a gas field

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7. (the field) A place where a subject of scientific study or of artistic representation can be observed in its natural location or context.

When traveling to a destination with large mammals you should learn about their behavior before going out in the field.

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8. (usually the field) An area which is or is to become the scene of a battle or campaign.

It would have been better if they had fallen on the field of battle.

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9. A battle.

many a bloody field was to be fought

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10. A particular branch of study or sphere of activity or interest.

She was interested in the film field even from a very young age.

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11. A part of a record, representing an item of data.

Baidu even seems enormously proud of its simple, 4K home page with a single search field.

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12. A general area of meaning within which individual words make particular distinctions.

It is a matter of word fields and changes of meaning, but also about the creation of new words.

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13. A space or range within which objects are visible from a particular viewpoint or through a piece of apparatus.

The sensors would cover 100-degree fields of view to ensure overlap of areas.

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14. (usually the field) All the participants in a contest or sport.

he destroyed the rest of the field with a devastating injection of speed

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15. An area on a flag with a single background colour.

It was a flag bearing thirteen stars on a blue field with red and white bars.

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16. The surface of an escutcheon or of one of its divisions.

The first field (top left corner) of the escutcheon shows the national arms.

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17. The region in which a particular condition prevails, especially one in which a force or influence is effective regardless of the presence or absence of a material medium.

They argue that quantum effects (such as intense radiation fields at the funnel) may close the Einstein-Rosen bridge.

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18. The force exerted or potentially exerted in a field.

Like a magnet, the crystal retains the polarization when the field is turned off.

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19. A system subject to two binary operations analogous to those for the multiplication and addition of real numbers, and having similar commutative and distributive laws.

He studied the Riemann zeta function, and its extension to arbitrary number fields, discovering important results.

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Verb

1. Attempt to catch or stop the ball and return it after it has been hit by the batsman or batter, thereby preventing runs being scored or base runners advancing.

Athy Hockey Club was another beneficiary of Skurt's talents and he fielded for the Showgrounds based club on several occasions.

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2. Catch or stop (the ball) and return it.

his swinging bunt was fielded by the Chicago catcher

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3. Send out (a team or individual) to play in a game.

Both teams field line-ups composed mostly of youth players.

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4. (of a political party) put up (a candidate) to stand in an election.

Several other fringe parties are fielding candidates on various councils.

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5. Deploy (an army)

They were too busy fighting one another to field an effective army yet.

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6. Deal with (a difficult question, phone call, etc.).

He fields questions more routinely at other White House events.

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Adjective

1. Carried out or working in the natural environment, rather than in a laboratory or office.

field observations and interviews

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2. (of military equipment) light and mobile for use on campaign.

field artillery

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3. Used in names of animals or plants found in the open country, rather than among buildings or as cultivated varieties, e.g.: field mouse.

My former ant loving celly, Penguin, would be in seventh heaven if left to his own devices with the field ants.

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4. Denoting a game played outdoors on a marked field.

That was all he had to say on his own preferred field game, however.

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Origin

1. Old English feld (also denoting a large tract of open country; compare with veld), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch veld and German Feld.

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