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a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field" play as a fielder answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press" select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl" the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa" a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat" 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" 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" catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event all of the horses in a particular horse race (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" (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field" a place where planes take off and land 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" 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" a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields" |
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