Unscramble field

Definition of field

noun:

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

verb:

• catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.
• 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 Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl".

Related words

aerodrome, airdrome, airport, airstrip, allometry, architecture, arena, arts, bibliotics, campus, coalfield, communications, court, curtilage, diamond, distaff, divinity, drome, engineering, escapology, firebreak, fireguard, flat, floodplain, flux, front, frontier, futuristics, futurology, gasfield, genealogy, grainfield, graphology, gridiron, grounds, humanities, kingdom, land, lap, lawn, llano, major, moor, moorland, numerology, occultism, oilfield, ology, paddy, palaestra, palestra, peneplain, peneplane, preserve, protology, province, realm, responsibility, science, snowfield, steppe, strip, technology, theogony, theology, tundra, yard.

Words nearby

afield, fields, fiend, wield, yield.

Rhymes with

afield, concealed, congealed, healed, peeled, sealed, shield, unconcealed, unsealed, wheeled, wheeled, wield, yield.