:an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
:Sports. a piece of ground devoted to sports or contests;playing field. all the contestants or numbers that are grouped together as one: to bet on the field in a horse race. the players on the playing ground.the area in which field events are held.
:Baseball. the team in the field, as opposed to the one at bat.the outfield.
:a sphere of activity, interest, etc., especially within a particular business or profession: the field of teaching; the field of Shakespearean scholarship.
:the area or region drawn on or serviced by a business or profession; outlying areas where business activities or operations are carried on, as opposed to a home or branch office: our representatives in the field.
:a job location remote from regular workshop facilities, offices, or the like.
:Military. the scene or area of active military operations.a battleground.a battle.Informal.an area located away from the headquarters of a commander.
:an expanse of anything: a field of ice.
:any region characterized by a particular feature, resource, activity, etc.: a gold field.
:the surface of a canvas, shield, etc., on which something is portrayed: a gold star on a field of blue.
Options that are shown in yellow text will indicate which fields can be customized — like specifying which smart light you want to turn off or on, for instance.
If you need to take work to and from the office, or out in the field to clients, this is a great option to keep files clean, organized, and safe.
It was amazing to hear directly from the top leaders in the field.
One ripple in a field would be an electron, another a photon, and interactions between them seemed to explain all electromagnetic events.
The scientists initially noticed that this species, called Regimbartia attenuata, had a habit of hanging out rather nonchalantly with frogs on paddy fields in Japan.
The eating disorder field remains divided over the potential efficacy of such measures.
“He was a brave field commander and an expert in intelligence, and in organizing popular and tribal forces,” said the eulogist.
If anything, officer training and in-field policing methodologies reinforce those beliefs.
Then the commercial weight loss behemoths Weight Watchers and Jenny Craig joined this crowded field.
It was, we have to have a team, all the right balls, a big field, and everything has to look right and be right.
He distinguished himself in several campaigns, especially in the Peninsular war, and was raised to the rank of field marshal.
We had six field-pieces, but we only took four, harnessed wit twice the usual number of horses.
There were two battalions, together about a thousand men; and they brought a field-piece with them.
The reveillée of the sleeping Mexicans was the discharge of our two field-pieces loaded with canister.
:Physics. the influence of some agent, as electricity or gravitation, considered as existing at all points in space and defined by the force it would exert on an object placed at any point in space.Compare electric field, gravitational field, magnetic field.
:Also called field of view. Optics. the entire angular expanse visible through an optical instrument at a given time.
:Electricity. the structure in a generator or motor that produces a magnetic field around a rotating armature.
:Mathematics. a number system that has the same properties relative to the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as the number system of all real numbers; a commutative division ring.
:Photography. the area of a subject that is taken in by a lens at a particular diaphragm opening.
:Psychology. the total complex of interdependent factors within which a psychological event occurs and is perceived as occurring.
:Computers. one or more related characters treated as a unit and constituting part of a record, for purposes of input, processing, output, or storage by a computer: If the hours-worked field is blank or zero, the program does not write a check for that employee. any number of columns regularly used for recording the same information.
:Television. one half of the scanning lines required to form a complete television frame. In the U.S., two fields are displayed in 1/30 second: all the odd-numbered lines in one field and all the even lines in the next field.Compare frame.
:Numismatics. the blank area of a coin, other than that of the exergue.
:Fox Hunting. the group of participants in a hunt, exclusive of the master of foxhounds and his staff.
:Heraldry. the whole area or background of an escutcheon.
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:Baseball, Cricket. to catch or pick up in play: The shortstop fielded the grounder and threw to first for the out.to place in the field to play.
:to place in competition: to field a candidate for governor.
:to answer or reply skillfully: to field a difficult question.
:to put into action or on duty: to field police cars to patrol an area.
:Informal. field-test.
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Baseball, Cricket.
:to act as a fielder; field the ball.
:to take to the field.
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:Sports. of, taking place, or competed for on the field and not on the track, as the discus throw or shot put.of or relating to field events.
:Military. of or relating to campaign and active combat service as distinguished from service in rear areas or at headquarters: a field soldier.
:of or relating to a field.
:grown or cultivated in a field.
:working in the fields of a farm: field laborers.
:working as a salesperson, engineer, representative, etc., in the field: an insurance company's field agents.