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