a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field";
a place where planes take off and land;
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument);
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";
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event;
all of the horses in a particular horse race;
(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";
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information;
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields";
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";
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";
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat";
a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field";
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa";
extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth";
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it;
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";
select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl";
answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press";
