field
noun
[ fiːld ]
• an area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences.
• "a wheat field"
Similar:
meadow,
pasture,
paddock,
green,
pen,
grassland,
pastureland,
sward,
park,
corral,
bawn,
glebe,
lea,
mead,
greensward,
• a particular branch of study or sphere of activity or interest.
• "we talked to professionals in various fields"
Similar:
area,
sphere,
area of activity,
discipline,
province,
department,
domain,
sector,
line,
branch,
subject,
speciality,
specialty,
specialization,
specialism,
métier,
forte,
scene,
bailiwick,
pigeon,
• a space or range within which objects are visible from a particular viewpoint or through a piece of apparatus.
Similar:
scope,
range,
sweep,
reach,
extent,
purview,
limits,
confines,
parameters,
bounds,
horizons,
• all the participants in a contest or sport.
• "he destroyed the rest of the field with a devastating injection of speed"
Similar:
competitors,
entrants,
competition,
runners,
applicants,
candidates,
possibles,
possibilities,
hopefuls,
• an area on a flag with a single background colour.
• "fifty white stars on a blue field"
• the region in which a particular condition prevails, especially one in which a force or influence is effective regardless of the presence or absence of a material medium.
• a system subject to two binary operations analogous to those for the multiplication and addition of real numbers, and having similar commutative and distributive laws.
field
verb
• attempt to catch or stop the ball and return it after it has been hit by the batsman or batter, thereby preventing runs being scored or base runners advancing.
• send out (a team or individual) to play in a game.
• "Leeds fielded a team of youngsters"
Similar:
put in the team,
send out,
play,
put up,
• deal with (a difficult question, phone call, etc.).
Similar:
deal with,
handle,
cope with,
answer,
reply to,
respond to,
react to,
parry,
deflect,
turn aside,
evade,
sidestep,
avoid,
dodge,
answer evasively,
fend off,
duck,
field
adjective
• carried out or working in the natural environment, rather than in a laboratory or office.
• "field observations and interviews"
Similar:
practical,
hands-on,
applied,
actual,
active,
experiential,
empirical,
in the field,
non-theoretical,
empiric,
Origin:
Old English feld (also denoting a large tract of open country; compare with veld), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch veld and German Feld .
