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