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Definition field

Etymology

Noun

field (plural fields)

1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
   1. (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
      1. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
2. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
   1. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
3. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
   1. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
   2. An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
      1. (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
      2. (baseball) The outfield.
   3. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game.
   4. A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
   5. (metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
4. Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
   1. (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
   2. Any of certain structures serving cognition.
      1. The extent of a given perception.
      2. A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
      3. A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
      4. An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
      5. (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
   3. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
      1. (heraldry) The background of the shield.
      2. (vexillology) The background of the flag.
      3. The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
      4. A concrete section in a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
      5. A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
         1. (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.

Verb

field (third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)

1. (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
2. (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
3. (transitive, sports) To place (a team) in a game.
4. (transitive) To answer; to address.
5. (transitive) To defeat.
6. (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
7. (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.

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