field in WordNet English dictionary

1. a place where planes take off and land
   airfield  landing field  flying field  field 
   
2. 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"
   sphere  domain  area  orbit  field  arena 
   
3. a piece of land prepared for playing a game
   "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
   playing field  athletic field  playing area  field 
   
4. 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"
   discipline  subject  subject area  subject field  field  field of study  study  bailiwick 
   
5. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
   "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
   battlefield  battleground  field of battle  field of honor  field 
   
6. extensive tract of level open land
   "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
   plain  field  champaign 
   
7. a particular kind of commercial enterprise
   "they are outstanding in their field"
   field  field of operation  line of business 
   
8. the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
   field  field of view 
   
9. (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"
   field 
   
10. all of the horses in a particular horse race
    field 
    
11. all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
    field 
    
12. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
    field 
    
13. a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
    "he planted a field of wheat"
    field 
    
14. 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"
    field 
    
15. 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"
    field  field of operations  theater  theater of operations  theatre  theatre of operations 
    
16. a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
    "the diamond fields of South Africa"
    field 
    
17. the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
    field  field of force  force field 
    

1. select (a team or individual player) for a game
   "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
   field 
   
2. answer adequately or successfully
   "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
   field 
   
3. play as a fielder
   field 
   
4. catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
   field