Grassplot and Field

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"
  • synonyms: battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor
• 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"
  • synonyms: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field of study, study, bailiwick
• 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
• A particular kind of commercial enterprise.
  • usage: "they are outstanding in their field"
  • synonyms: field of operation, line of business
• 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"
  • synonyms: sphere, domain, area, orbit, arena
• A piece of land prepared for playing a game.
  • usage: "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"
  • synonyms: playing field, athletic field, playing area
• 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"
  • synonyms: plain, champaign
• 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"
  • synonyms: field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations
• 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.
  • synonyms: field of view
• A place where planes take off and land.
  • synonyms: airfield, landing field, flying field

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"

• (v.i.) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop or throw the ball.
• (n.) Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
• (n.) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.
• (n.) A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
• (n.) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
• (v.t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
• (n.) A piece of land of considerable size; especially, a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
• (n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
• (n.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).
• (n.) An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation or achievement; province; room.
• (n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial or for all except the favorites in the betting.
• (n.) An open space; an extent; an expanse.
• (v.i.) To take the field.

• Name Meaning: A Field
• Name Origin: , English,

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