Definition of
Field
- (noun, location) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- (noun, location) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
- (noun, location) somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
- (noun, cognition) a branch of knowledge
teachers should be well trained in their subject
anthropology is the study of human beings - (noun, phenomenon) the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- (noun, act) a particular kind of commercial enterprise
- (noun, state) a particular environment or walk of life
it was a closed area of employment
he's out of my orbit - (noun, location) a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- (noun, object) extensive tract of level open land
he longed for the fields of his youth - (noun, group) (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, location) a region in which active military operations are in progress
he served in the Vietnam theater for three years - (noun, group) all of the horses in a particular horse race
- (noun, group) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- (noun, location) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
- (noun, group) (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- (noun, cognition) the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- (noun, artifact) a place where planes take off and land
- (verb, competition) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- (verb, competition) play as a fielder
- (verb, communication) answer adequately or successfully
- (verb, cognition) select (a team or individual player) for a game
via WordNet, Princeton University
Synonyms of Field
airfield, area, arena, athletic field, bailiwick, battlefield, battleground, champaign, discipline, domain, field of battle, field of force, field of honor, field of operation, field of operations, field of study, field of view, flying field, force field, landing field, line of business, orbit, plain, playing area, playing field, sphere, study, subject, subject area, subject field, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations
Alternate forms of Field
Derivations: field, fielder, fielding
Hyponyms: aerodrome, airdrome, airport, airstrip, allometry, applied science, architecture, arena, arts, auxiliary airfield, ball field, baseball field, bibliotics, bit field, bowling green, campus, coalfield, communication theory, communications, court, curtilage, diamond, distaff, divinity, drome, electric field, engineering, engineering science, escapology, firebreak, fireguard, flat, flight strip, flood plain, floodplain, flux, football field, front, frontier, futuristics, futurology, gasfield, genealogy, grain field, grainfield, graphology, gravitational field, gridiron, grounds, humanistic discipline, humanities, kingdom, land, landing strip, lap, lawn, liberal arts, llano, magnetic field, magnetic flux, major, microscopic field, military science, moor, moorland, numerology, occultism, oilfield, ology, operative field, paddy, paddy field, palaestra, palestra, peneplain, peneplane, political arena, political sphere, preserve, protology, province, radiation field, realm, responsibility, rice paddy, scalar field, scene of action, science, scientific discipline, snowfield, steppe, strip, technology, theogony, theology, tundra, yard
Hypernyms: answer, business, business enterprise, choose, commercial enterprise, domain, dry land, earth, environment, facility, geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, ground, handle, installation, knowledge base, knowledge domain, land, palm, parcel, parcel of land, physical phenomenon, pick out, piece of ground, piece of land, play, region, reply, respond, select, set, solid ground, take, terra firma, tract, visual image, visual percept
Origin of the word Field
- O.E. feld "plain, open land" (as opposed to woodland), also "a parcel of land marked off and used for pasture or tillage," probably related to O.E. folde "earth, land," from P.Gmc. *felthuz "flat land," from PIE *pel(e)-tu-, from base *pele- "flat, to spread" (cf. L. planus "flat, level," O.C.S. polje "field;" see plane (1)). Com… more
via Online Etymology Dictionary, ©2001 Douglas Harper
Words that sound like Field
fabled, fall out, fallot, fallout, fauld, fault, faulty, faveolate, fealty, feel out, felid, felidae, fellata, fellate, fellatio, felt, felt hat, felted, field day, field hut, file out, filet, filial duty, filiate, fill out, filled, fillet, filth, filthy, five-fold, fivefold, flat
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