ALL meanings of fielded
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F f - noun fielded Fox Hunting. the group of participants in a hunt, exclusive of the master of foxhounds and his staff. 1
- noun fielded Heraldry. the whole area or background of an escutcheon. 1
- verb with object fielded Baseball, Cricket. to catch or pick up (the ball) in play: The shortstop fielded the grounder and threw to first for the out. to place (a player, group of players, or a team) in the field to play. 1
- verb with object fielded to place in competition: to field a candidate for governor. 1
- verb with object fielded to answer or reply skillfully: to field a difficult question. 1
- verb with object fielded to put into action or on duty: to field police cars to patrol an area. 1
- verb with object fielded Informal. field-test. 1
- verb without object fielded to act as a fielder; field the ball. 1
- verb without object fielded to take to the field. 1
- noun fielded Play as a fielder. 1
- adjective fielded Sports. of, taking place, or competed for on the field and not on the track, as the discus throw or shot put. of or relating to field events. 1
- adjective fielded Military. of or relating to campaign and active combat service as distinguished from service in rear areas or at headquarters: a field soldier. 1
- adjective fielded of or relating to a field. 1
- adjective fielded grown or cultivated in a field. 1
- adjective fielded working in the fields of a farm: field laborers. 1
- adjective fielded working as a salesperson, engineer, representative, etc., in the field: an insurance company's field agents. 1
- idioms fielded in the field, in actual use or in a situation simulating actual use or application; away from a laboratory, workshop, or the like: The machine was tested for six months in the field. in contact with a prime source of basic data: The anthropologist is working in the field in Nigeria. within a given profession: The public knows little of him, but in the field he's known as a fine mathematician. 1
- idioms fielded keep the field, to remain in competition or in battle; continue to contend: The troops kept the field under heavy fire. 1
- idioms fielded out in left field. left field (def 3). 1
- idioms fielded play the field, Informal. to vary one's activities. to date a number of persons rather than only one: He wanted to play the field for a few years before settling down. 1
- idioms fielded take the field, to begin to play, as in football or baseball; go into action. to go into battle: They took the field at dawn. 1
- noun fielded an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage. 1
- noun fielded Sports. a piece of ground devoted to sports or contests; playing field. (in betting) all the contestants or numbers that are grouped together as one: to bet on the field in a horse race. (in football) the players on the playing ground. the area in which field events are held. 1
- noun fielded Baseball. the team in the field, as opposed to the one at bat. the outfield. 1
- noun fielded a sphere of activity, interest, etc., especially within a particular business or profession: the field of teaching; the field of Shakespearean scholarship. 1
- noun fielded the area or region drawn on or serviced by a business or profession; outlying areas where business activities or operations are carried on, as opposed to a home or branch office: our representatives in the field. 1
- noun fielded a job location remote from regular workshop facilities, offices, or the like. 1
- noun fielded Military. the scene or area of active military operations. a battleground. a battle. Informal. an area located away from the headquarters of a commander. 1
- noun fielded an expanse of anything: a field of ice. 1
- noun fielded any region characterized by a particular feature, resource, activity, etc.: a gold field. 1
- noun fielded the surface of a canvas, shield, etc., on which something is portrayed: a gold star on a field of blue. 1
- noun fielded (in a flag) the ground of each division. 1
- noun fielded Physics. the influence of some agent, as electricity or gravitation, considered as existing at all points in space and defined by the force it would exert on an object placed at any point in space. Compare electric field, gravitational field, magnetic field. 1
- noun fielded Also called field of view. Optics. the entire angular expanse visible through an optical instrument at a given time. 1
- noun fielded Electricity. the structure in a generator or motor that produces a magnetic field around a rotating armature. 1
- noun fielded Mathematics. a number system that has the same properties relative to the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as the number system of all real numbers; a commutative division ring. 1
- noun fielded Photography. the area of a subject that is taken in by a lens at a particular diaphragm opening. 1
- noun fielded Psychology. the total complex of interdependent factors within which a psychological event occurs and is perceived as occurring. 1
- noun fielded Computers. one or more related characters treated as a unit and constituting part of a record, for purposes of input, processing, output, or storage by a computer: If the hours-worked field is blank or zero, the program does not write a check for that employee. (in a punch card) any number of columns regularly used for recording the same information. 1
- noun fielded Television. one half of the scanning lines required to form a complete television frame. In the U.S., two fields are displayed in 1/30 second: all the odd-numbered lines in one field and all the even lines in the next field. Compare frame (def 9). 1
- noun fielded Numismatics. the blank area of a coin, other than that of the exergue. 1
- verb fielded simple past tense and past participle of field. 0