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▸ noun: (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
▸ noun: A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
▸ noun: (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
▸ noun: An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
▸ noun: A place where competitive matches are carried out.
▸ noun: A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
▸ noun: An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
▸ noun: (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).
▸ noun: (baseball) The outfield.
▸ noun: A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
▸ noun: A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
▸ noun: (metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
▸ noun: Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
▸ noun: (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.
▸ noun: Any of certain structures serving cognition.
▸ noun: The extent of a given perception.
▸ noun: A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
▸ noun: A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
▸ noun: An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
▸ noun: (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
▸ noun: A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
▸ noun: (heraldry) The background of the shield.
▸ noun: (vexillology) The background of the flag.
▸ noun: (numismatics) The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
▸ noun: A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
▸ noun: A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
▸ noun: (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
▸ noun: (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
▸ verb: (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
▸ verb: (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
▸ verb: (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
▸ verb: (transitive) To answer; to address.
▸ verb: (transitive) To defeat.
▸ verb: (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
▸ verb: (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.
▸ noun: A surname.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community near Field Hill within Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada, named after Cyrus West Field.
▸ noun: A community in West Nipissing, Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
▸ noun: An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
▸ noun: A neighbourhood of Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
▸ noun: A locality in south-east South Australia.
▸ noun: A hamlet in Leigh parish, East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0233).
▸ noun: (cricket) Archaic form of fielder. [A dog trained in pursuit of game in the field.]
Similar:
champaign,
plain,
landing field,
battlefield,
battleground,
domain,
airfield,
arena,
line of business,
study,
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Types:
gravitational,
electromagnetic,
nuclear,
weak,
strong,
gravitational wave,
nuclear wave,
weak wave,
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magnetic,
electric,
visual,
whole,
open,
wide,
external,
particular,
entire,
gravitational,
electromagnetic
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