fifth crusade
- n a Crusade under papal control from 1218 to 1221 that achieved military victories but failed when dissension arose over accepting the terms they had been offered
fields
- n United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)
- n a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
- 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
- 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
- n a particular environment or walk of life
- n a piece of land prepared for playing a game
- 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
- n a region in which active military operations are in progress
- 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
- v select (a team or individual player) for a game
fieldsman
- n a member of the cricket team that is fielding rather than batting
fieldstone
- n stone that occurs naturally in fields; often used as building material
fiend
- n a cruel wicked and inhuman person
- n an evil supernatural being
- n a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)
fieri facias
- n a writ ordering a levy on the belongings of a debtor to satisfy the debt