Field

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.

A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.

An open space; an extent; an expanse.

Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.

The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.

The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).

An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.

A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.

That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.

To take the field.

To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.

To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.

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"

(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 particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"

(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)

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"

extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"