Meaning of field | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Scope, domain, field.
2. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
3. A surname.
4. To play as a fielder: How well can he field?
5. The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
   plural-normally
6. A community near Field Hill within Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada, named after Cyrus West Field.
7. To begin or resume activity, as in a sport or military operations.
8. A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
9. A community in West Nipissing, Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
10. play the field, Informal. a. to engage in a broad range of activities.
11. An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
12. A region containing a particular mineral.
13. A sphere of activity, experience, study, or interest:area, arena, bailiwick, circle, department, domain, orbit, province, realm, scene, subject, terrain, territory, world.
14. A neighbourhood of Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
15. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
16. (in cricket, basketball etc) to catch (the ball) and return it. die bal keer; veldwerk doen يلتَقِط الكُره ويُعيدها хващам топка и я връщам interceptar a bola chytit a vrátit fangen und zurückwerfen spille i marken; være ude πιάνω και γυρίζω την μπάλα (π.χ. στο κρίκετ) parar y devolver püüdma گرفتن و برگرداندن olla ulkovuorossa attraper et relancer לִתפוֹס וּלהַחזִיר चुलबुलाना, किसी वस्तु को इस तरह छूते रहना कि देखने वाले को खीज हो uhvatiti (loptu) megfog és visszadob (labdát krikettben, base...
    etc
17. A locality in south-east South Australia.
18. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
19. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
20. binoculars. verkyker مِنْظار المَيْدان далекоглед binóculos triedr der Feldstecher feltkikkert κιάλια gemelos, prismáticos välibinokkel دوربین صحرایی kiikarit jumellesמשקפת dalekozor látcső keker sjónauki binocolo 双眼鏡 휴대용 소형 쌍안경 žiūronai lauka binoklis teropong jauh veldkijker kikkertlornetka دور بين، ددوو سترګو دوربين binóculos binoclu полевой бинокль triéder daljnogled dvogled fältkikare กล้องส่องทางไกล el dürbünü 雙筒望遠鏡 бінокль دوربین ống nhòm 双筒望远镜
21. A hamlet in Leigh parish, East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0233).
22. An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
23. work done outside the laboratory, office etc (eg collecting information). veldwerk عَمَل مَيداني събиране на информация trabalho de campo práce v terénu praktische Arbeit feltarbejde; væren i marken επιτόπια έρευνα trabajo de campo välitöö کارهای داخل محیط باز kenttätyö enquête sur le terrain עֲבוֹדַת שָׂדֶה क्षेत्रीय अध्ययन terenski rad külső munka, terepmunka kerja lapangan vettvangsrannsóknir lavoro/inchiesta sul campo 現地調査 실지 조사, 야외 작업 lauko darbas, medžiagos rinkimas faktu/materiāla vākš...
    etc
24. The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
    obsolete
25. The outfield.
26. A broad, level, open expanse of land.
27. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
28. A battleground.
29. A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
30. A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin: a blue insignia on a field of red.
31. All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
    metonymically
32. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
33. A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
34. Any of certain structures serving cognition.
35. The extent of a given perception.
36. A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
37. A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
38. An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
39. A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
40. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
41. The background of the shield.
42. The background of the flag.
43. The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
44. A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
45. A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
46. An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
47. Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
48. Archaic form of fielder.
    alt-of, archaic

Equivalents

Examples

“There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.”

“Harry shook his head, and wandered away miserable through the fields, and would not in these days even set his foot upon the soil of the park. “He was not going to intrude any farther,” he said to the rector. “You can come to church, at any rate,” his father said, “for he certainly will not be there while you are at the parsonage.” Oh yes, Harry would go to the church. “I have yet to understand that Mr. Prosper is owner of the church, and the path there from the rectory is, at any rate, open to the public;” for at Buston the church stands on one corner of the park.”

“I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.”

“There were some cows grazing in a field.”

“A crop circle was made in a corn field.”

“The castled crag of Drachenfels Frowns o’er the wide and winding Rhine Whose breast of waters broadly swells Between the banks which bear the vine And hills all rich with blossomed trees And fields which promise corn and wine And scatter’d cities crowning these Whose far white walls along them shine, Have strew’d a scene, which I should see With double joy wert thou with mo.”

“Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.””

“an oil field; a gold field”

“Tarry, sweet soul, for mine; then fly abreast, As in this glorious and well-foughten field We kept together in our chivalry!”

“[…] What though the field be lost? All is not lost; th’ unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome; That glory never shall his wrath or might!”

“soccer field”

“Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.”

“Blake was a thorough gambler, and knew well how to make the most of the numerous chances which the turf afforded him. He had a large stud of horses, to the training and working of which he attended almost as closely as the person whom he paid for doing so. But it was in the betting-ring that he was most formidable. It was said, in Kildare Street, that no one at Tattersall's could beat him at a book. He had latterly been trying a wider field than the Curragh supplied him and had, on one or two occasions, run a horse in England with such success, as had placed him, at any rate, quite at the top of the Irish sporting tree.”

“Dr. Finn understood enough of elections for Parliament, and of the nature of boroughs, to be aware that a candidate’s chance of success is very much improved by being early in the field.”

“This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.”

“magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field”

“field of view”

“The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.”

“Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists.”

“He needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted.”

“As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.”

“He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.”

“Penn was without doubt a man of eminent virtues. He had a strong sense of religious duty and a fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. On one or two points of high importance, he had notions more correct than were, in his day, common even among men of enlarged minds: and as the proprietor and legislator of a province which, being almost uninhabited when it came into his possession, afforded a clear field for moral experiments, he had the rare good fortune of being able to carry his theories into practice without any compromise, and yet without any shock to existing institutions.”

“Tidings had reached her of this and the other man’s success, and,—coming near to her still,—of this and that other woman’s earnings in literature. And it had seemed to her that, within moderate limits, she might give a wide field to her hopes.”

“The set of rational numbers, #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;, is the prototypical field.”

“Whereas a ring has three binary operators: (1) an additive operator, (2) a subtractive operator, and (3) a multiplicative operator, a field has four binary operators: the three ring binary operators and (4) a divisive operator. (N.B.: Only the additive and multiplicative operators are axiomatic. The subtractive operator may be derived by combining the additive and the unary negative operators; the divisive operator may be derived by combining the multiplicative and the unary inversive operators.)”

“The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain.”

“The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and shipping address.”

“PHP 5 Forms Required Fields at W3Schools From the validation rules table on the previous page, we see that the "Name", "E-mail", and "Gender" fields are required. These fields cannot be empty and must be filled out in the HTML form.”

“Read-only fields allow you to establish a point of data whose value is not known at compile time, but that should never change once established.”

“The manager should always choose his own Eleven; and, we have already hinted that fielding, rather than batting, is the qualification. A good field is sure to save runs, though the best batsman may not make any.”

“Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.”

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