ALL meanings of fielder
field·er
F f - noun fielder A player who occupies a defensive position in the field while the other side is batting (typically one other than the pitcher or catcher, or bowler). 1
- noun fielder an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage. 1
- noun fielder 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 fielder Baseball. the team in the field, as opposed to the one at bat. the outfield. 1
- noun fielder a sphere of activity, interest, etc., especially within a particular business or profession: the field of teaching; the field of Shakespearean scholarship. 1
- noun fielder 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 fielder a job location remote from regular workshop facilities, offices, or the like. 1
- noun fielder 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 fielder an expanse of anything: a field of ice. 1
- noun fielder any region characterized by a particular feature, resource, activity, etc.: a gold field. 1
- noun fielder the surface of a canvas, shield, etc., on which something is portrayed: a gold star on a field of blue. 1
- noun fielder (in a flag) the ground of each division. 1
- noun fielder 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 fielder Also called field of view. Optics. the entire angular expanse visible through an optical instrument at a given time. 1
- noun fielder Electricity. the structure in a generator or motor that produces a magnetic field around a rotating armature. 1
- noun fielder 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 fielder Photography. the area of a subject that is taken in by a lens at a particular diaphragm opening. 1
- noun fielder Psychology. the total complex of interdependent factors within which a psychological event occurs and is perceived as occurring. 1
- noun fielder 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 fielder 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 fielder Numismatics. the blank area of a coin, other than that of the exergue. 1
- noun fielder Fox Hunting. the group of participants in a hunt, exclusive of the master of foxhounds and his staff. 1
- noun fielder Heraldry. the whole area or background of an escutcheon. 1
- verb with object fielder 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 fielder to place in competition: to field a candidate for governor. 1
- verb with object fielder to answer or reply skillfully: to field a difficult question. 1
- verb with object fielder to put into action or on duty: to field police cars to patrol an area. 1
- verb with object fielder Informal. field-test. 1
- verb without object fielder to act as a fielder; field the ball. 1
- verb without object fielder to take to the field. 1
- adjective fielder 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 fielder 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 fielder of or relating to a field. 1
- adjective fielder grown or cultivated in a field. 1
- adjective fielder working in the fields of a farm: field laborers. 1
- adjective fielder working as a salesperson, engineer, representative, etc., in the field: an insurance company's field agents. 1
- idioms fielder 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 fielder keep the field, to remain in competition or in battle; continue to contend: The troops kept the field under heavy fire. 1
- idioms fielder out in left field. left field (def 3). 1
- idioms fielder 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 fielder 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 fielder sport: player on non-batting team 1
- countable noun fielder A fielder is a player in cricket, baseball, or rounders who is fielding or one who has a particular skill at fielding. 0
- noun fielder a player in the field 0
- noun fielder a member of the fielding rather than the batting side 0
- noun fielder a player in the field whose chief purpose is to stop or catch batted balls 0
- noun fielder (cricket) A player of the fielding side, whose task is to gather the ball after the batsman has hit it, to catch the batsman out, or to prevent him from scoring. 0
- noun fielder (baseball, softball) A defensive player in the field. 0