field

1. Field
   A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
2. Field
   A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture. "Fields which promise corn and wine."
3. Field
   A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself. "In this glorious and well-foughten field .", "What though the field be lost?"
4. Field
   An open space; an extent; an expanse.
5. Field
   An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room. "Afforded a clear field for moral experiments."
6. Field
   Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
7. Field
   Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
8. Field
   in a telescope or microscope, the entire space within which objects are seen.
9. Field
   (Baseball) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
10. Field
    The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.
11. Field
    (Her) 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).
12. Field
    (Ball Playing) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
13. Field
    (Ball Playing) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
14. Field
    To take the field.

1. (n) field
   A piece of cleared or cultivated ground, or of land suitable for pasture or tillage; specifically, any part of a farm inclosed or set apart from the rest, as for a special use, except a garden, a wood-lot, or an orchard, and the appurtenances of the buildings: as, a wheat-field, or a field of potatoes.
2. (n) field
   Any piece of open ground set apart or used for a special purpose: as, ableaching-field.
3. (n) field
   Specifically In base-ball, cricket, and similar games: The ground on which the game is played; more specifically, in base-ball, that part of the ground on which the fielders play, and known as in-field, out-field, right-, center-, and left-field, according to the station of the corresponding players. See .
4. (n) field
   The fielders collectively: as, the work of the field was excellent. In base-ball the field includes all the players but the pitcher and catcher (who are also included when their work is similar to that of the other players, as distinct from their specific work as pitcher and catcher), and is divided into the in-field, the three basemen and the short-stop, and the out-field, the right-, center-, and left-fielders. See fielder.
5. (n) field
   Any continuous extent of surface considered as analogous to a level expanse of ground: as, a field of ice or snow. See ice-field.
6. (n) field
   Specifically The ground or blank space on which figures are drawn: as, the field or ground of a picture.
7. (n) field
   In numismatics, that part of the surface of a coin or medal which is left unoccupied by the main device (‘type’). The field is either left plain, or is filled with symbols or letters, which (except when they appear in the exergue) are described as being in the field, or in field.
8. (n) field
   In heraldry, the escutcheon, considered as a plane of a given tincture upon which the different bearings appear to be laid; also, when the escutcheon is divided by impalement or quartering, each division, as a quarter or the half divided pale wise, it being considered as the whole escutcheon with reference to that coat of arms. (See cut under shield.) In a flag the field is the ground of each division.
9. (n) field
   In entomology, a place, space, or area, as a division of the surface of a wing: as, the posterior of the discoidal field.
10. (n) field
    Any space or region; specifically, any region, open or covered with forests, considered with reference to its particular products or features; an extent of ground covered with or containing some special natural formation or production: as, diamond-, gold-, coal-, or oil- (petroleum-) fields.
11. (n) field
    A scene of operations; open space of any extent considered as a theater of action: as, researches in the field; the field of military operations; a hunting-field; the general's headquarters were in the field.
12. (n) field
    Specifically A battle-ground; the space on which a battle is or has been fought; hence, a battle; an action: as, the field of Waterloo; the field was held against all odds; to show how fields are lost and won.
13. (n) field
    The sphere or range of any connected series of actions; a subject or class of subjects concerning which observations or reflections are made; a class of connected objects toward which human energies are directed; the place where or that about which one busies himself: as, his field of operations was his counting-house; philology is an attractive field of research; a wide field of contemplation.
14. (n) field
    In physics, a portion of space considered as traversed by equipotential surfaces and lines of force, so that at every point of it a force would be exerted upon a particle placed there. This mode of expression and thought was originated by Faraday, and is applied chiefly to electric and magnetic forces. The intensity of a magnetic field is the force which a unit-pole will experience when placed in it.
15. (n) field
    In sporting: Those taking part in a hunt.
16. (n) field
    All the entries collectively against which a single contestant has to compete: as, to back a crew against the field
17. (n) field
    Specifically, all the contestants not individually favored in betting: as, to bet on the field in a horse-race.
18. (n) field
    To maintain one's ground against all comers.
19. field
    In baseball and cricket, to catch or stop and return to the necessary place: as, to field the ball.
20. field
    To take to the field; do anything in the field, as exploring, fighting, or searching for food.
21. field
    In base-ball and cricket, to act as a fielder. Also (in cricket) to fag out.
22. (n) field
    Specifically, in electric machines, that part of the structure in which the magnetic flux is excited. The electrical or mechanical power is produced by rotation of the armature in the magnetic field or of the magnetic field in the armature. See cuts under armature.
23. (n) field
    In mathematics, same as domain, 8.
24. field
    In chem. industries, to induce oxidation or other change by exposing to the air and solar heat. A term not in general use.

1. (n) Field
   fēld country or open country in general: a piece of ground enclosed for tillage or pasture: the range of any series of actions or energies: the locality of a battle: the battle itself: room for action of any kind: a wide expanse:
2. (v.t) Field
   at cricket and base-ball, to catch or stop and return to the fixed place
3. (v.i) Field
   to stand in positions so as to catch the ball easily in cricket
4. (n) Field
   fēld (her.) the surface of a shield: the background on which figures are drawn: the part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device: those taking part in a hunt: all the entries collectively against which a single contestant has to compete: all the parties not individually excepted, as 'to bet on the field' in a horse-race

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