field
v.
go onto the field, take the field (about a sports team); receive the ball
n.
area; domain, range; piece of land; space designated for an item of information in a record (Computers); surface; land designated for sports; composition of players; layer; area where a battle takes place; battle
adj.
of an open area of ground
Field
field
Noun
1. a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"
(hypernym) tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
(hyponym) yard, grounds, curtilage
2. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
(synonym) battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor
(hypernym) tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
(hyponym) Armageddon
(part-meronym) battlefront, front, front line
3. 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"
(hypernym) region
4. 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"
(synonym) discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge
(hypernym) knowledge domain, knowledge base
(hyponym) occultism
5. the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
(synonym) field of force, force field
(hypernym) physical phenomenon
(hyponym) electric field
6. a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"
(synonym) field of operation, line of business
(hypernym) commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business
7. 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"
(synonym) sphere, domain, area, orbit, arena
(hypernym) environment
(hyponym) distaff
8. a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
(synonym) playing field, athletic field, playing area
(hypernym) tract, piece of land, piece of ground, parcel of land, parcel
(hyponym) arena, scene of action
(part-holonym) stadium, bowl, arena, sports stadium
(part-meronym) midfield
9. extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
(synonym) plain, champaign
(hypernym) land, dry land, earth, ground, solid ground, terra firma
(hyponym) Olympia
10. (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"
(hypernym) set
(hyponym) scalar field
(classification) mathematics, math, maths
11. 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"
(synonym) field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations
(hypernym) region
(part-holonym) theater of war, theatre of war
(part-meronym) combat zone, combat area
(classification) military, armed forces, armed services, military machine, war machine
12. all of the horses in a particular horse race
(hypernym) set
(classification) horse racing
13. all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
(hypernym) set
14. a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"
(hypernym) geographical area, geographic area, geographical region, geographic region
(hyponym) coalfield
15. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
(hypernym) set
(hyponym) bit field
(classification) computer science, computing
16. the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
(synonym) field of view
(hypernym) visual percept, visual image
(hyponym) microscopic field
17. a place where planes take off and land
(synonym) airfield, landing field, flying field
(hypernym) facility, installation
(hyponym) airport, airdrome, aerodrome
(part-holonym) transportation system, transportation, transit
(part-meronym) apron
Verb
1. catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
(hypernym) handle, palm
(derivation) fielder, fieldsman
2. play as a fielder
(hypernym) play
(derivation) playing field, athletic field, playing area
(classification) sport, athletics
3. answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
(hypernym) answer, reply, respond
4. select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
(hypernym) choose, take, select, pick out
Field
field
1. The volume of influence of a physical phenomenon, expressed vectorially. 2. On a
data medium or in
storage, a specified area used for a particular class of data, e.g. , a group of
character positions used to enter or display wage rates on a
screen. 3. Defined logical data that are part of a
record. 4. The elementary unit of a record that may contain a
data item, a data aggregate, a
pointer, or a
link. 5. In an interlaced,
raster-scanned
video display, a partial
frame, consisting of every nth
scanning line of a complete frame, where n is an integer equal to the number of fields (usually two) in a complete frame. Note 1: For example, in the National
Television Standards Committee (NTSC) television
specification used in the United States, a single frame is composed of two fields, each of which has half the number xxof
scanning lines in a complete
frame. The scanning lines of a field are separated by twice the space between the scanning lines in the full frame. The two fields are interlaced, i.e. , a complete frame consists of the following traces, which are listed in the order of their appearance in the complete frame, but not the order in which scanning occurs: the first
line of the first field, the first line of the second field, the second line of the first field, the second line of the second field, the third line of the first field, the third line of the second field, etc. , until completion of the full frame. The fields are scanned alternately, one complete field at a time. Thus, the flicker rate of the display is perceived by the eye to be twice as fast as that which would result if the complete frame were to be scanned in line-by-line order. Note 2 : Not all scanning lines are necessarily applied to
user information, i.e. , the graphic display. Certain scanning lines, not seen under ordinary viewing conditions, are often used for transmitting test signals that indicate the quality of the displayed
video.