field
     n 1: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he
          planted a field of wheat"
     2: a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they
        made a tour of Civil War battlefields" [syn: {battlefield},
         {battleground}, {field of battle}, {field of honor}]
     3: 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"
     4: 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"
        [syn: {discipline}, {subject}, {subject area}, {subject
        field}, {field of study}, {study}, {bailiwick}, {branch of
        knowledge}]
     5: the space around a radiating body within which its
        electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another
        similar body not in contact with it [syn: {field of force},
         {force field}]
     6: a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are
        outstanding in their field" [syn: {field of operation}, {line
        of business}]
     7: 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" [syn: {sphere}, {domain}, {area}, {orbit},
         {arena}]
     8: a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd
        cheered when Princeton took the field" [syn: {playing
        field}, {athletic field}, {playing area}]
     9: extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the
        woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields
        of his youth" [syn: {plain}, {champaign}]
     10: (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"
     11: 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" [syn:
         {field of operations}, {theater}, {theater of operations},
          {theatre}, {theatre of operations}]
     12: all of the horses in a particular horse race
     13: all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting
         event
     14: a geographic region (land or sea) under which something
         valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"
     15: (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters
         comprising a unit of information
     16: the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
         [syn: {field of view}]
     17: a place where planes take off and land [syn: {airfield}, {landing
         field}, {flying field}]
     v 1: catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
     2: play as a fielder
     3: answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all
        questions from the press"
     4: select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The
        Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose
        Bowl"
Source: WordNet® 2.0