Main entry: line of business, field, field of operation
Definition: a particular kind of commercial enterprise
Usage: they are outstanding in their field
Main entry: airfield, field, flying field, landing field
Definition: a place where planes take off and land
Main entry: field, field of view
Definition: the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
Main entry: field, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, discipline
Definition: a branch of knowledge
Usage: in what discipline is his doctorate?; teachers should be well trained in their subject; anthropology is the study of human beings
Main entry: field
Definition: all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
Main entry: field
Definition: all of the horses in a particular horse race
Main entry: field
Definition: (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
Usage: the set of all rational numbers is a field
Main entry: field
Definition: (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
Main entry: field, field of battle, field of honor, battlefield, battleground
Definition: a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
Usage: they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
Main entry: theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations, field, field of operations
Definition: a region in which active military operations are in progress
Usage: the army was in the field awaiting action; he served in the Vietnam theater for three years
Main entry: field
Definition: somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
Usage: anthropologists do much of their work in the field
Main entry: field
Definition: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
Usage: he planted a field of wheat
Main entry: athletic field, playing area, playing field, field
Definition: a piece of land prepared for playing a game
Usage: the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
Main entry: field
Definition: a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
Usage: the diamond fields of South Africa
Main entry: plain, champaign, field
Definition: extensive tract of level open land
Usage: they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain; he longed for the fields of his youth
Main entry: force field, field, field of force
Definition: the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
Main entry: orbit, field, area, arena, sphere, domain
Definition: a particular environment or walk of life
Usage: his social sphere is limited; it was a closed area of employment; he's out of my orbit
Main entry: field
Definition: select (a team or individual player) for a game
Usage: The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl
Main entry: field
Definition: answer adequately or successfully
Usage: The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
Main entry: field
Definition: play as a fielder
Main entry: field
Definition: catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket