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a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
he planted a field of wheat
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a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
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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
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a branch of knowledge
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the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
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a particular kind of commercial enterprise
they are outstanding in their field
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a particular environment or walk of life
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a piece of land prepared for playing a game
the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
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extensive tract of level open land
he longed for the fields of his youth
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(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
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a region in which active military operations are in progress
the army was in the field awaiting action
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all of the horses in a particular horse race
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all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
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a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
the diamond fields of South Africa
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(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
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the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
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a place where planes take off and land
'field' - used as a verb
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catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
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play as a fielder
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answer adequately or successfully
The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
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select (a team or individual player) for a game
The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl
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derived forms
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1. Field / Plural
fields
2. Field / Past
fielded
3. Field / Third Person
fields
4. Field / Present Participle
fielding
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