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Words people most associate with “field”:

  1. grass,
  2. dreams,
  3. baseball,
  4. corn,
  5. football

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Noun (17 meanings)

1. a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.

field

Example:
  • “he planted a field of wheat”
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  • campus (noun) - a field on which the buildings of a university are situated
  • firebreak, fireguard (noun) - a narrow field that has been cleared to check the spread of a prairie fire or forest fire
  • grainfield, grain field (noun) - a field where grain is grown
  • lawn (noun) - a field of cultivated and mowed grass
  • paddy, paddy field, rice paddy (noun) - an irrigated or flooded field where rice is grown

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

battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field

Example:
  • “they made a tour of Civil War battlefields”
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  • Armageddon (noun) - (New Testament) the scene of the final battle between the kings of the Earth at the end of the world
  • Camlan (noun) - (Arthurian legend) the battlefield where King Arthur was mortally wounded
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3. somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected.

field

Example:
  • “anthropologists do much of their work in the field”
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  • region (noun) - a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth

4. a branch of knowledge.

discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick

Examples:
  • “in what discipline is his doctorate?”,
  • “teachers should be well trained in their subject”,
  • “anthropology is the study of human beings”
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  • allometry (noun) - the study of the relative growth of a part of an organism in relation to the growth of the whole
  • architecture (noun) - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings
  • bibliotics (noun) - the scientific study of documents and handwriting etc. especially to determine authorship or authenticity
  • communications, communication theory (noun) - the discipline that studies the principles of transmiting information and the methods by which it is delivered (as print or radio or television etc.)
  • engineering, engineering science, applied science, technology (noun) - the discipline dealing with the art or science of applying scientific knowledge to practical problems
  • escapology (noun) - the study of methods of escaping (especially as a form of entertainment)
  • frontier (noun) - an undeveloped field of study
  • futurology, futuristics (noun) - the study or prediction of future developments on the basis of existing conditions
  • genealogy (noun) - the study or investigation of ancestry and family history
  • graphology (noun) - the study of handwriting (especially as an indicator of the writer's character or disposition)
  • humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts (noun) - studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills)
  • major (noun) - the principal field of study of a student at a university
  • military science (noun) - the discipline dealing with the principles of warfare
  • numerology (noun) - the study of the supposed occult influence of numbers on human affairs
  • occultism (noun) - the study of the supernatural
  • ology (noun) - an informal word (abstracted from words with this ending) for some unidentified branch of knowledge
  • protology (noun) - the study of origins and first things
  • science, scientific discipline (noun) - a particular branch of scientific knowledge
  • theogony (noun) - the study of the origins and genealogy of the gods
  • theology, divinity (noun) - the rational and systematic study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truth
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5. the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it.

field, field of force, force field

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  • physical phenomenon (noun) - a natural phenomenon involving the physical properties of matter and energy
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6. a particular kind of commercial enterprise.

field, field of operation, line of business

Example:
  • “they are outstanding in their field”
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7. a particular environment or walk of life.

sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena

Examples:
  • “his social sphere is limited”,
  • “it was a closed area of employment”,
  • “he's out of my orbit”
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  • environment (noun) - the totality of surrounding conditions
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  • preserve (noun) - a domain that seems to be specially reserved for someone
  • province, responsibility (noun) - the proper sphere or extent of your activities

8. a piece of land prepared for playing a game.

playing field, athletic field, playing area, field

Example:
  • “the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field”
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  • palestra, palaestra (noun) - a public place in ancient Greece or Rome devoted to the training of wrestlers and other athletes
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  • midfield (noun) - (sports) the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse)
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  • to field (verb) - play as a fielder
  • to field (verb) - catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

9. extensive tract of level open land.

plain, field, champaign

Examples:
  • “they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain”,
  • “he longed for the fields of his youth”
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  • flat (noun) - a level tract of land
  • floodplain, flood plain (noun) - a low plain adjacent to a river that is formed chiefly of river sediment and is subject to flooding
  • llano (noun) - an extensive grassy and nearly treeless plain (especially in Latin America)
  • moor, moorland (noun) - open land usually with peaty soil covered with heather and bracken and moss
  • peneplain, peneplane (noun) - a more or less level land surface representing an advanced stage of erosion undisturbed by crustal movements
  • snowfield (noun) - a permanent wide expanse of snow
  • steppe (noun) - extensive plain without trees (associated with eastern Russia and Siberia)
  • tundra (noun) - a vast treeless plain in the Arctic regions where the subsoil is permanently frozen
instances of field:
  • Nullarbor Plain (noun) - a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight
  • Olympia (noun) - a plain in Greece in the northwestern Peloponnese
  • Serengeti, Serengeti Plain (noun) - a vast plain in Tanzania to the west of the Great Rift Valley known for its wildlife

10. (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.

field

Example:
  • “the set of all rational numbers is a field”
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  • set (noun) - (mathematics) an abstract collection of numbers or symbols
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  • mathematics, math, maths (noun) - a science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement

11. a region in which active military operations are in progress.

field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations

Examples:
  • “the army was in the field awaiting action”,
  • “he served in the Vietnam theater for three years”
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  • region (noun) - a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
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12. all of the horses in a particular horse race.

field

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  • set (noun) - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
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13. all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event.

field

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  • set (noun) - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used

14. a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found.

field

Example:
  • “the diamond fields of South Africa”
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  • coalfield (noun) - a region where there is coal underground
  • gasfield (noun) - a region where there is natural gas underground
  • oilfield (noun) - a region rich in petroleum deposits (especially one with producing oil wells)

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

field

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  • set (noun) - a group of things of the same kind that belong together and are so used
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  • bit field (noun) - a field containing only binary characters
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  • computer science, computing (noun) - the branch of engineering science that studies (with the aid of computers) computable processes and structures

16. the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument).

field, field of view

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17. a place where planes take off and land.

airfield, landing field, flying field, field

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  • facility, installation (noun) - a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry
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  • apron (noun) - a paved surface where aircraft stand while not being used
  • flight line (noun) - place where airplanes are parked and the maintenance hangars (but not the runways or taxiways)
  • runway (noun) - a strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land
  • taxiway, taxi strip (noun) - a paved surface in the form of a strip

Verb (4 meanings)

1. catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.

to field

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  • to handle, palm (verb) - touch, lift, or hold with the hands
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2. play as a fielder.

to field

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  • to play (verb) - participate in games or sport
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  • sport, athletics (noun) - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition

3. answer adequately or successfully.

to field

Example:
  • “The lawyer fielded all questions from the press”
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4. select (a team or individual player) for a game.

to field

Example:
  • “The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl”
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