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Array and Fields

array

noun

  • An orderly arrangement.
    • usage: "an array of troops in battle order"
  • An impressive display.
    • usage: "it was a bewildering array of books"; "his tools were in an orderly array on the basement wall"
  • Especially fine or decorative clothing.
  • An arrangement of aerials spaced to give desired directional characteristics.

verb

  • Lay out orderly or logically in a line or as if in a line.
    • usage: "lay out the clothes"; "lay out the arguments"
  • Align oneself with a group or a way of thinking.
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fields

noun

  • A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
    • usage: "he planted a field of wheat"
  • A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought.
    • usage: "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"
  • Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected.
    • usage: "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"
  • A branch of knowledge.
    • usage: "in what discipline is his doctorate"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
  • The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it.
  • A particular kind of commercial enterprise.
    • usage: "they are outstanding in their field"
  • A particular environment or walk of life.
    • usage: "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"
  • A piece of land prepared for playing a game.
    • usage: "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
  • Extensive tract of level open land.
    • usage: "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"
  • 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. (
    • usage: "the set of all rational numbers is a field"
  • A region in which active military operations are in progress.
    • usage: "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
  • 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.
    • usage: "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.
  • A place where planes take off and land.
  • United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946.

verb

  • Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.
  • Play as a fielder.
  • Answer adequately or successfully.
    • usage: "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
  • Select (a team or individual player) for a game.
    • usage: "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
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