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English to English noun
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a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed |  | Example: he planted a field of wheat
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a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | | Example: they made a tour of Civil War battlefields
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somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected | | Example: anthropologists do much of their work in the field
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a branch of knowledge | | Example: 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 space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it | | source: wordnet30
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a particular kind of commercial enterprise | | Example: they are outstanding in their field
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a particular environment or walk of life | | Example: his social sphere is limited
it was a closed area of employment
he's out of my orbit
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a piece of land prepared for playing a game | | Example: the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
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extensive tract of level open land | | Example: they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
he longed for the fields of his youth
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(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 | | Example: the set of all rational numbers is a field
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a region in which active military operations are in progress | | Example: the army was in the field awaiting action
he served in the Vietnam theater for three years
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all of the horses in a particular horse race | | source: wordnet30
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all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event | | source: wordnet30
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a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found | | Example: the diamond fields of South Africa
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(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information | | source: wordnet30
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the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) | | source: wordnet30
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a place where planes take off and land | | source: wordnet30
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Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country. | | source: webster1913 verb
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catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket | | source: wordnet30
| 20 |
play as a fielder | | source: wordnet30
| 21 |
answer adequately or successfully | | Example: The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
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select (a team or individual player) for a game | | Example: The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl
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To take the field. | | source: webster1913
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To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder. | | source: webster1913
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