1. (

• field

) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat" ;

2. (

• battlefield ,
• battleground ,
• field_of_battle ,
• field_of_honor ,
• field ,

) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields" ;

3. (

• field ,

) 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. (

• discipline ,
• subject ,
• subject_area ,
• subject_field ,
• field ,
• field_of_study ,
• study ,
• bailiwick

) 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" ;

5. (

• field ,
• field_of_force ,
• force_field

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

6. (

• field ,
• field_of_operation ,
• line_of_business

) a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field" ;

7. (

• sphere ,
• domain ,
• area ,
• orbit ,
• field ,
• arena

) 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" ;

8. (

• playing_field ,
• athletic_field ,
• playing_area ,
• field ,

) a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field" ;

9. (

• plain ,
• field ,
• champaign

) extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" ;

10. (

• field

) (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. (

• field ,
• field_of_operations ,
• theater ,
• theater_of_operations ,
• theatre ,
• theatre_of_operations

) 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" ;

12. (

• field ,

) all of the horses in a particular horse race ;

13. (

• field ,

) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event ;

14. (

• field ,

) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa" ;

15. (

• field ,

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

16. (

• field ,
• field_of_view

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

17. (

• airfield ,
• landing_field ,
• flying_field ,
• field

) a place where planes take off and land ;

1. (

• field ,

) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket ;

2. (

• field

) play as a fielder ;

3. (

• field

) answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press" ;

4. (

• field

) select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl" ;