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Definitions of field:

noun: a particular kind of commercial enterprise
Example: "They are outstanding in their field"
noun: the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
noun: all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
noun: all of the horses in a particular horse race
noun: (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
Example: "The set of all rational numbers is a field"
noun: (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
noun: a region in which active military operations are in progress
Example: "The army was in the field awaiting action"
noun: somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
Example: "Anthropologists do much of their work in the field"
noun: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
Example: "He planted a field of wheat"
noun: a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
Example: "The diamond fields of South Africa"
noun: the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
noun: extensive tract of level open land
Example: "He longed for the fields of his youth"
noun: a place where planes take off and land
noun: a piece of land prepared for playing a game
Example: "The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
noun: a branch of knowledge
noun: a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
Example: "They made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
noun: a particular environment or walk of life
verb: select (a team or individual player) for a game
Example: "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
verb: answer adequately or successfully
Example: "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
verb: play as a fielder
verb: catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
name: A surname (common: 1 in 9090 families; popularity rank in the U.S.: #1165)

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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to field: (520 results)
Synonyms:
airfield, area, arena, athletic field, battlefield, battleground, branch of knowledge, champaign, discipline, domain, field of battle, field of force, field of operation, 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

Contains:
apron, battlefront, front, front line, midfield, runway, sector, taxi strip, taxiway

Part of:
bowl, stadium, transit, transportation, transportation system

More general:
answer, business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise, dry land, earth, environment, facility, geographical area, geographical region, geographic area, geographic region, ground, handle, installation, knowledge base, knowledge domain, land, palm, parcel, parcel of land, physical phenomenon, piece of ground, piece of land, region, reply, respond, set, solid ground, terra firma, tract, visual image, visual percept

More specific:
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Often used in the same context:
ball, baseball, battle field, chick, farm, fence, fields, football, grass, meadow, pasture, plate, score, screen, seas, sport, track, valley, victory, weather, woods

Appears in the definition of:
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