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[ noun ] (geography) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

Examples

"he planted a field of wheat"

Used in print

(B. J. D. Meeuse, The Story of Pollination....)

After another two_weeks , the first young emerge , four to eight small daughters that begin to play the role of worker_bees , collecting pollen and nectar in the field and caring for the new young generation while the queen retires to a life of egg_laying .

(Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)

All sizes : big ones , some wired to set_off a whole field , little ones , hand_grenade size .

(William Maxwell, The Chateau....)

Fortunately , the embarrassing questions raised by objects do not need to be answered , or we would all have_to go sleep in the open fields .

(Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy....)

Since the Santo_Spirito_hospital had taken only men , he had had no experience in the study of female anatomy ; but he had sketched the women of Tuscany in their fields and homes .

(Stephen Longstreet, Eagles Where I Walk....)

It was thickly_settled by fifteen thousand citizens and laid_out into pig infested streets , mostly around the Battery , going bravely north to Wall_Street , but giving_up and becoming fields and farms in the region of Harlem_Heights .

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[ noun ] (military,geography) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

Examples

"they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

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[ noun ] somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected

Examples

"anthropologists do much of their work in the field"

Used in print

(Richard I. McCosh, "Recreation Site Selection"...)

Inspect the site in the field during the time of the year when the area will be most heavily used for recreation .

It is usually helpful to make a sketch_map in the field , showing the size and location of the features of interest and to take photographs at the site .

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

The amateur is closely related to the collector , who is actually no more_than the amateur who has taken_to the field .

(Clifford H. Pope, The Giant Snakes....)

Oversized monsters are never brought home either alive or preserved , and field measurements are obviously open_to doubt because of the universal tendency to exaggerate dimensions .

This approach rejects virtually all field measurements .

Related terms

region

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[ noun ] a branch of knowledge

Examples

"in what discipline is his doctorate?" "teachers should be well trained in their subject" "anthropology is the study of human beings"

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(The Christian Science Monitor,...)

Still , the network 's willingness to experiment in this musical field is to be commended , and future essays happily anticipated .

(Tristram P. Coffin, "Folklore in the American Twentieth...)

After_all , the field is large , difficult to define and seldom taught properly to American undergraduates .

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[ noun ] (physics) the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

Used in print

(Harry H. Hull, "The Normal Forces and Their Ther...)

However , they do demonstrate the presence of large normal pressures in the presence of flat shear fields which were forecast by the theory in the first part of the paper .

The actual change * * f caused by a shear field is calculated by multiplying the pressure differential times the volume , just_as_it_is for any gravitational or osmotic_pressure head .

Consider a shear field with a height of H and a cross-sectional area of A opposed by a manometer with a height of h ( referred to the same base as H ) and a cross-sectional area of a .

If * * f is the change per unit volume in Gibbs function caused by the shear field at constant P and T , and �r is the density of the fluid , then the total potential_energy of the system above the reference height is * * f .

This method can be extended to include the concentration differences caused by shear fields .

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[ noun ] (business) a particular kind of commercial enterprise

Examples

"they are outstanding in their field"

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(John R. Sargent, "Where To Aim Your Planning for Bigger...)

Has the probable price situation in your field been forecast as a basis for future planning ?

Your competition is now proportionately greater - you are competing not_only against manufacturers in the same field but also against a vast array of manufacturers of other appealing consumer products .

If private brand competition has n't been felt in your product field as_yet , have you thought how you will cope with it if and when it does appear ?

Are there regular communications from the field , or meetings of sales and marketing personnel with R_+_D people ?

(James Bryant Conant, Slums and Suburbs...)

Formally organized vocational_programs supported by federal funds allow high_school students to gain experience in a field of work which is likely to lead to a full-time job on graduation .

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commercial_enterprise

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[ noun ] a particular environment or walk of life

Examples

"his social sphere is limited" "it was a closed area of employment" "he's out of my orbit"

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(The Times-Picayune, [New Orleans]...)

In the casual field straws feature wedge_heels of cork or carved wood in a variety of styles .

(Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)

The best_known field of application for builders is in heavy-duty , spray-dried detergent formulations for household use .

(Max F. Millikan and Donald L. M. Blackmer,...)

Simultaneously we should be underlining the interrelationships of technical progress in various fields , showing how agricultural training can be introduced into education , how health affects labor productivity , how small business can benefit the rural farm community , and , above_all , how progress in each field relates to national progress .

Simultaneously we should be underlining the interrelationships of technical progress in various fields , showing how agricultural training can be introduced into education , how health affects labor productivity , how small business can benefit the rural farm community , and , above_all , how progress in each field relates to national progress .

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

This nettled the children into the revelation of exact truth , a sacrifice of their secret superiority over grown people , but a victory in the wide fields of perpetration and illegitimate accomplishment .

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[ noun ] (geography) a piece of land prepared for playing a game

Examples

"the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

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(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Prior to the featured race , the stewards announced that apprentice James_P._Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday .

(The Dallas Morning News,...)

Time stands_still every time Moritz , a 26 - year old Army_Signal_Corps veteran , goes_into the field .

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[ noun ] (geography) extensive tract of level open land

Synonyms

plain champaign

Examples

"they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain" "he longed for the fields of his youth"

Used in print

(David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)

After some time he came to an open field .

An open field was better than a building , that was for_sure , so he dismounted , turned off the horse , and plunged through the grass .

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[ noun ] (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

Examples

"the set of all rational numbers is a field"

Used in print

(Kenneth Hoffman and Ray Kunze, Linear Al...)

The second situation is illustrated by the operator T on * * f ( F any field ) represented in the standard basis by * * f .

Let T be a linear_operator on the finite dimensional vector space V over the field F .

Let T be a linear_operator on the finite dimensional vector space V over the field F .

Let V be a finite dimensional vector space over an algebraically closed field F , e.g. , the field of complex_numbers .

Let V be a finite dimensional vector space over an algebraically closed field F , e.g. , the field of complex_numbers .

Related terms

set scalar_field mathematics

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[ noun ] (military) a region in which active military operations are in progress

Examples

"the army was in the field awaiting action" "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"

Used in print

(Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)

Add also a comparatively primitive industrial plant which would severely limit our capacity to keep_abreast of the Soviets even in the missile field which is reputed to be our main strength .

(Dan McLachlan, Jr., "Communication Networks and...)

In contrast to cocktail_parties , military organizations , even in the field , are more formal .

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[ verb ] (baseball,cricket,games) play as a fielder, in baseball or cricket

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Whitey_Herzog , performing in right as the Orioles fielded possibly their strongest team of the spring , worked Keegan for a base_on_balls .

Related terms

play sport fielder fielding

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[ noun ] all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

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(St. Louis Post-Dispatch,...)

`` The Pirates showed they could outclass the field last year .

Related terms

set

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[ verb ] (baseball,cricket) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

Used in print

(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Carey singled on a slow bouncing ball to short which Robinson cut_across to field and threw wide to first .

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handle handle fielder

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[ noun ] (horse racing) all of the horses in a particular race

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(The Sun, [Baltimore],...)

Toying_with her field in the early stages , Garden_Fresh was asked for top speed only in the stretch by Jockey Philip_Grimm and won by a length and a half in 1.24 3 - 5 for the 7 furlongs .

Related terms

set horse_racing

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[ verb ] select (a team or individual player) for a game

Examples

"The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"

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choose

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1165
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[ noun ] (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
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[ verb ] answer adequately or successfully

Examples

"The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"

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answer

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[ noun ] (geography) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

Examples

"the diamond fields of South Africa"

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[ noun ] the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

Synonyms

field_of_view

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[ noun ] (transportation) a place where planes take off and land
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