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field 
noun
- a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"
- a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
Synonyms: battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor - 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"
- a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
Synonyms: bailiwick, branch of knowledge, discipline, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field - the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
Synonyms: field of force, force field - a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"
Synonyms: field of operation, line of business - a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he''s out of my orbit"
Synonyms: area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere - a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
Synonyms: athletic field, playing area, playing field - extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
Synonyms: champaign, plain - (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"
- a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
Synonyms: field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations - all of the horses in a particular horse race
- all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
Synonyms: field of view - a place where planes take off and land
Synonyms: airfield, flying field, landing field
verb
- catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
- play as a fielder
- answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
- select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
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