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Noun field has 17 senses

field - a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"
--₁ is a kind of tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--₁ has particulars:
yard, grounds, curtilage; campus; firebreak, fireguard; grainfield, grain field; lawn; paddy, paddy field, rice paddy
battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field - a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
--₂ is a kind of tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--₂ has parts: battlefront, front, front line; sector
--₂ has particulars: Armageddon; Camlan
field - 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"
--₃ is a kind of region

discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge - 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"
--₄ is a kind of knowledge domain, knowledge base
--₄ has particulars:

field, field of force, force field - the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
--₅ is a kind of physical phenomenon
--₅ has particulars:
electric field; gravitational field; magnetic field, magnetic flux, flux; radiation field
field, field of operation, line of business - a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"
--₆ is a kind of commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena - 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"
--₇ is a kind of environment
--₇ has particulars:
distaff; front; kingdom, land, realm; lap; political arena, political sphere; preserve; province, responsibility
playing field, athletic field, playing area, field - a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
--₈ is a kind of tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
--₈ is a part of stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium
--₈ has parts: midfield
--₈ has particulars:
arena, scene of action; ball field, baseball field, diamond; court; football field, gridiron; palestra, palaestra; bowling green

Derived forms: verb field₁, verb field₂
plain, field, champaign - extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
--₉ is a kind of land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
--₉ has particulars:
Olympia; Nullarbor Plain; flat; floodplain, flood plain; llano; moor, moorland; peneplain, peneplane; snowfield; steppe; tundra
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; "the set of all rational numbers is a field"
--₁₀ is a kind of set
--₁₀ has particulars: scalar field
field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations - 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"
--₁₁ is a kind of region
--₁₁ is a part of theater of war, theatre of war
--₁₁ has parts: combat zone, combat area
field - all of the horses in a particular horse race
--₁₂ is a kind of set
field - all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
--₁₃ is a kind of set
field - a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"
--₁₄ is a kind of geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
--₁₄ has particulars: coalfield; gasfield; oilfield
field - (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
--₁₅ is a kind of set
--₁₅ has particulars: bit field
field, field of view - the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
--₁₆ is a kind of visual percept, visual image
--₁₆ has particulars: microscopic field; operative field
airfield, landing field, flying field, field - a place where planes take off and land
--₁₇ is a kind of facility, installation
--₁₇ is a part of transportation system, transportation, transit
--₁₇ has parts: apron; runway; taxiway, taxi strip; flight line
--₁₇ has particulars:
airport, airdrome, aerodrome; airstrip, flight strip, landing strip, strip; auxiliary airfield

Verb field has 4 senses

field - catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
--₁ is one way to handle, palm

Derived forms: noun fielder₂, noun field₈, noun fielding₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
field - play as a fielder
--₂ is one way to play

Derived forms: noun field₈, noun fielder₂, noun fielder₁, noun fielding₁
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s
field - answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
--₃ is one way to answer, reply, respond
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
field - select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
--₄ is one way to choose, take, select, pick out
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody