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field game
  • n  an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions
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field-emission microscope
  • n  electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid
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field-effect transistor
  • n  a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field
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field
  • n  a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
    he planted a field of wheat
  • n  a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
    they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
  • n  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
  • n  a branch of knowledge
  • n  the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
  • n  a particular kind of commercial enterprise
    they are outstanding in their field
  • n  a particular environment or walk of life
  • n  a piece of land prepared for playing a game
    the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
  • n  extensive tract of level open land
    he longed for the fields of his youth
  • n  (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
  • n  a region in which active military operations are in progress
    the army was in the field awaiting action
  • n  all of the horses in a particular horse race
  • n  all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
  • n  a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
    the diamond fields of South Africa
  • n  (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
  • n  the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
  • n  a place where planes take off and land
  • v  catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
  • v  play as a fielder
  • v  answer adequately or successfully
    The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
  • v  select (a team or individual player) for a game
    The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl
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field-grade officer
  • n  an officer holding the rank of major or lieutenant colonel or colonel
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field-pea plant
  • n  variety of pea plant native to the Mediterranean region and North Africa and widely grown especially for forage
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field-sequential color television
  • n  an early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors
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field-sequential color television system
  • n  an early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors
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field-sequential color tv
  • n  an early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors
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