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English noun: field | |||
| 1. | field (location) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed | ||
| Samples | He planted a field of wheat. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | campus, curtilage, firebreak, fireguard, grain field, grainfield, grounds, lawn, paddy, paddy field, rice paddy, yard | ||
| 2. | field (location) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | ||
| Samples | They made a tour of Civil War battlefields. | ||
| Synonyms | battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract | ||
| Instance hyponym | Armageddon, Camlan | ||
| Part holonym | battlefront, front, front line, sector | ||
| 3. | field (location) somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected | ||
| Samples | Anthropologists do much of their work in the field. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | region | ||
| 4. | field (cognition) a branch of knowledge | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | domain, knowledge base, knowledge domain | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | allometry, applied science, architecture, arts, bibliotics, communication theory, communications, divinity, engineering, engineering science, escapology, frontier, futuristics, futurology, genealogy, graphology, humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, major, military science, numerology, occultism, ology, protology, science, scientific discipline, technology, theogony, theology | ||
| 5. | field (phenomenon) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | physical phenomenon | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | electric field, flux, gravitational field, magnetic field, magnetic flux, radiation field | ||
| 6. | field (act) a particular kind of commercial enterprise | ||
| Samples | They are outstanding in their field. | ||
| Synonyms | field of operation, line of business | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise | ||
| 7. | field (state) a particular environment or walk of life | ||
| Samples | His social sphere is limited. It was a closed area of employment. He's out of my orbit. | ||
| Synonyms | area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | environment | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | distaff, front, kingdom, land, lap, political arena, political sphere, preserve, province, realm, responsibility | ||
| 8. | field (location) a piece of land prepared for playing a game | ||
| Samples | The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field. | ||
| Synonyms | athletic field, playing area, playing field | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | arena, ball field, baseball field, bowling green, court, diamond, football field, gridiron, palaestra, palestra, scene of action | ||
| Part holonym | midfield | ||
| Part meronym | arena, bowl, sports stadium, stadium | ||
| 9. | field (object) extensive tract of level open land | ||
| Samples | They emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain. He longed for the fields of his youth. | ||
| Synonyms | champaign, plain | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | dry land, earth, ground, land, solid ground, terra firma | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | flat, flood plain, floodplain, llano, moor, moorland, peneplain, peneplane, snowfield, steppe, tundra | ||
| Instance hyponym | Nullarbor Plain, Olympia, Serengeti, Serengeti Plain | ||
| 10. | field (group) (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 | ||
| Samples | The set of all rational numbers is a field. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | set | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | scalar field | ||
| Domain category | math, mathematics, maths | ||
| 11. | field (location) a region in which active military operations are in progress | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | region | ||
| Part holonym | combat area, combat zone | ||
| Part meronym | theater of war, theatre of war | ||
| Domain category | armed forces, armed services, military, military machine, war machine | ||
| 12. | field (group) all of the horses in a particular horse race | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | set | ||
| Domain category | horse racing | ||
| 13. | field (group) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | set | ||
| 14. | field (location) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found | ||
| Samples | The diamond fields of South Africa. | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | coalfield, gasfield, oilfield | ||
| 15. | field (group) (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | set | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | bit field | ||
| Domain category | computer science, computing | ||
| 16. | field (cognition) the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) | ||
| Synonyms | field of view | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | visual image, visual percept | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | microscopic field, operative field | ||
| 17. | field (artifact) a place where planes take off and land | ||
| Synonyms | airfield, flying field, landing field | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | facility, installation | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | aerodrome, airdrome, airport, airstrip, auxiliary airfield, drome, flight strip, landing strip, strip | ||
| Part holonym | apron, flight line, runway, taxi strip, taxiway | ||
| Part meronym | transit, transportation, transportation system | ||
English verb: field | |||
| 1. | field (competition) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | handle, palm | ||
| 2. | field (competition) play as a fielder | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | play | ||
| Domain category | athletics, sport | ||
| 3. | field (communication) answer adequately or successfully | ||
| Samples | The lawyer fielded all questions from the press. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s something | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | answer, reply, respond | ||
| 4. | field (cognition) select (a team or individual player) for a game | ||
| Samples | The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl. | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s somebody | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | choose, pick out, select, take | ||
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