Field
A branch of knowledge
Has types
A particular kind of commercial enterprise
Examples
They are outstanding in their field
The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
A particular environment or walk of life
The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
A piece of land prepared for playing a game
Has types
Has parts
Examples
The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
A place where planes take off and land
Extensive tract of level open land
Examples
He longed for the fields of his youth
A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
Examples
They made a tour of Civil War battlefields
A region in which active military operations are in progress
Type of
Examples
The army was in the field awaiting action
A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
Examples
The diamond fields of South Africa
All of the horses in a particular horse race
In category
Type of
All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
Type of
Answer adequately or successfully
A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
Has types
Examples
He planted a field of wheat
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
(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
Type of
Has types
Examples
The set of all rational numbers is a field
Select (a team or individual player) for a game
Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
Type of
Examples
Anthropologists do much of their work in the field