field > 21 sensesNOUN | 1 | field | A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed |
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2 | field, battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor | A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought |
3 | field | Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected |
4 | field, discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge | A branch of knowledge |
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 |
7 | field, sphere, domain, area, orbit, arena | A particular environment or walk of life |
8 | field, playing field, athletic field, playing area | A piece of land prepared for playing a game |
9 | field, plain, champaign | Extensive tract of level open land |
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 |
11 | field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations | A region in which active military operations are in progress |
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 |
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 | field, airfield, landing field, flying field | A place where planes take off and land |
VERB | 1 | field | Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket |
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2 | field | Play as a fielder |
3 | field | Answer adequately or successfully |
4 | field | Select (a team or individual player) for a game |
field > noun 1, locationMeaning | A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed. |
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Examples | "he planted a field of wheat" |
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Narrower | yard, grounds, curtilage; campus; firebreak, fireguard; grainfield, grain field; lawn; paddy, paddy field, rice paddy |
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Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
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field > noun 2, locationMeaning | A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought. |
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Examples | "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields" |
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Synonyms | battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor |
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Parts | battlefront, front, front line; sector |
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Narrower | Armageddon; Camlan |
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Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
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field > noun 4, cognitionMeaning | A branch of knowledge. |
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Synonyms | discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge |
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Narrower | occultism; communications, communication theory; major; frontier; allometry; bibliotics; ology; science, scientific discipline; architecture; engineering, engineering science, applied science, technology; futurology, futuristics; humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts; theology, divinity; military science; numerology; protology; theogony |
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Broader | knowledge domain, knowledge base |
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field > noun 8, locationMeaning | A piece of land prepared for playing a game. |
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Examples | "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field" |
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Synonyms | playing field, athletic field, playing area |
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Part of | stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium |
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Parts | midfield |
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Narrower | arena, scene of action; ball field, baseball field, diamond; court; football field, gridiron; palestra, palaestra; bowling green |
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Broader | tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel |
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Verbs | field; field |
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field > noun 11, locationMeaning | A region in which active military operations are in progress. |
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Examples | "the army was in the field awaiting action" |
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Synonyms | field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations |
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Category | military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine |
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Part of | theater of war, theatre of war |
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Parts | combat zone, combat area |
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Broader | region |
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field > noun 17, artifactMeaning | A place where planes take off and land. |
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Synonyms | airfield, landing field, flying field |
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Part of | transportation system, transportation, transit |
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Parts | apron; runway; taxiway, taxi strip; flight line |
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Narrower | airport, airdrome, aerodrome; airstrip, flight strip, landing strip, strip; auxiliary airfield |
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Broader | facility, installation |
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