field




field - noun

  • a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
  • a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought
  • somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected
  • a branch of knowledge
  • 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
  • a particular environment or walk of life
  • a piece of land prepared for playing a game
  • extensive tract of level open land
  • (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
  • a region in which active military operations are in progress
  • 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
  • (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

  • field - verb

    • catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
    • play as a fielder
    • answer adequately or successfully
    • select (a team or individual player) for a game

    field - thesaurus

    airfield   area   arena   bailiwick   battlefield   battleground   champaign   discipline   domain   orbit   plain   sphere   study   subject   theater American English spelling   theatre British English spelling  


    View spelling list ie words and learn about the word field in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 21. The 'I' before 'e' rule – does it work?.

    Other Spellzone word lists: Geography

    Scrabble score for field

    f is 4 i is 1 e is 1 l is 1 d is 2
    Scrabble score = 9

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