field | (noun) a particular kind of commercial enterprise | Synonyms: field of operation, line of business |
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(noun) a place where planes take off and land | Synonyms: airfield, flying field, landing field |
(noun) a branch of knowledge | Synonyms: bailiwick, discipline, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
(noun) the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) | Synonyms: field of view |
(noun) (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 | - |
(noun) all of the horses in a particular horse race | - |
(noun) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event | - |
(noun) (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information | - |
(noun) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed | - |
(noun) somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected | - |
(noun) a piece of land prepared for playing a game | Synonyms: athletic field, playing area, playing field |
(noun) a region in which active military operations are in progress | Synonyms: field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations |
(noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | Synonyms: battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor |
(noun) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found | - |
(noun) extensive tract of level open land | Synonyms: champaign, plain |
(noun) the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it | Synonyms: field of force, force field |
(noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere |
(verb) select (a team or individual player) for a game | - |
(verb) answer adequately or successfully | - |
(verb) play as a fielder | - |
(verb) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket | - |
fielder | (noun) a member of the baseball team that is in the field instead of at bat | - |
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(noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fieldsman |
fieldfare | (noun) medium-sized Eurasian thrush seen chiefly in winter | Synonyms: snowbird, Turdus pilaris |
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fieldhand | (noun) a hired hand on a farm | Synonyms: farm worker, farmhand, field hand |
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fielding | (noun) (baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field | - |
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fieldmouse | (noun) any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens | Synonyms: field mouse |
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fieldsman | (noun) a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting | Synonyms: fielder |
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fieldstone | (noun) stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material | - |
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fieldwork | (noun) a temporary fortification built by troops in the field | - |
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fieldworker | (noun) a researcher who works in the field | - |
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