• a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their Field"
• a place where planes take off and land
• the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
• 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"
• all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
• all of the horses in a particular horse race
• (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"
• (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
• a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battleFields"
• 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"
• 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"
• a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a Field of wheat"
• a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the Field"
• a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond Fields of South Africa"
• extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the Fields of his youth"
• the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
• 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"
• select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Patriots Fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
• answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer Fielded all questions from the press"
• play as a Fielder
• catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

'Field' in other languages