Field

A branch of knowledge

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

A place where planes take off and land

Extensive tract of level open land

A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

A region in which active military operations are in progress

A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

All of the horses in a particular horse race

In category

Horse racing

Type of

Set

All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

Type of

Set

Answer adequately or successfully

Examples

The lawyer fielded all questions from the press

A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

Type of

Handle

Palm

Derivation

Fielder

Fielding

(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

Type of

Set

Has types

Bit field

(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

Set

Has types

Scalar field

Examples

The set of all rational numbers is a field

Play as a fielder

In category

Athletics

Sport

Type of

Play

Derivation

Fielding

Fielder

Select (a team or individual player) for a game

Examples

The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl

Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected

Type of

Region

Examples

Anthropologists do much of their work in the field