field

Sense 1 noun

a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

he planted a field of wheat

Sense 2 verb

catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

Sense 3 noun

a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

they made a tour of Civil War battlefields

Sense 4 verb

play as a fielder

Sense 5 noun

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

Sense 6 verb

answer adequately or successfully

The lawyer fielded all questions from the press

Sense 7 noun

a branch of knowledge

in what discipline is his doctorate?

Sense 8 verb

select (a team or individual player) for a game

The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl

Sense 9 noun

the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

Sense 10 noun

a particular kind of commercial enterprise

they are outstanding in their field

Sense 11 noun

a particular environment or walk of life

his social sphere is limited

Sense 12 noun

a piece of land prepared for playing a game

the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field

Sense 13 noun

extensive tract of level open land

they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain

Sense 14 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

the set of all rational numbers is a field

Sense 15 noun

a region in which active military operations are in progress

the army was in the field awaiting action

Sense 16 noun

all of the horses in a particular horse race

Sense 17 noun

all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

Sense 18 noun

a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

the diamond fields of South Africa

Sense 19 noun

(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

Sense 20 noun

the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

Sense 21 noun

a place where planes take off and land