ALL meanings of fielding
Field·ing
F f - noun fielding The action of the verb 'field'. 1
- noun fielding an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage. 1
- noun fielding 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 fielding Baseball. the team in the field, as opposed to the one at bat. the outfield. 1
- noun fielding a sphere of activity, interest, etc., especially within a particular business or profession: the field of teaching; the field of Shakespearean scholarship. 1
- noun fielding 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 fielding a job location remote from regular workshop facilities, offices, or the like. 1
- noun fielding 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 fielding an expanse of anything: a field of ice. 1
- noun fielding any region characterized by a particular feature, resource, activity, etc.: a gold field. 1
- noun fielding the surface of a canvas, shield, etc., on which something is portrayed: a gold star on a field of blue. 1
- noun fielding (in a flag) the ground of each division. 1
- noun fielding 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 fielding Also called field of view. Optics. the entire angular expanse visible through an optical instrument at a given time. 1
- noun fielding Electricity. the structure in a generator or motor that produces a magnetic field around a rotating armature. 1
- noun fielding 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 fielding Photography. the area of a subject that is taken in by a lens at a particular diaphragm opening. 1
- noun fielding Psychology. the total complex of interdependent factors within which a psychological event occurs and is perceived as occurring. 1
- noun fielding 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 fielding 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 fielding Numismatics. the blank area of a coin, other than that of the exergue. 1
- noun fielding Fox Hunting. the group of participants in a hunt, exclusive of the master of foxhounds and his staff. 1
- noun fielding Heraldry. the whole area or background of an escutcheon. 1
- verb with object fielding 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 fielding to place in competition: to field a candidate for governor. 1
- verb with object fielding to answer or reply skillfully: to field a difficult question. 1
- verb with object fielding to put into action or on duty: to field police cars to patrol an area. 1
- verb with object fielding Informal. field-test. 1
- verb without object fielding to act as a fielder; field the ball. 1
- verb without object fielding to take to the field. 1
- adjective fielding 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 fielding 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 fielding of or relating to a field. 1
- adjective fielding grown or cultivated in a field. 1
- adjective fielding working in the fields of a farm: field laborers. 1
- adjective fielding working as a salesperson, engineer, representative, etc., in the field: an insurance company's field agents. 1
- idioms fielding 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 fielding keep the field, to remain in competition or in battle; continue to contend: The troops kept the field under heavy fire. 1
- idioms fielding out in left field. left field (def 3). 1
- idioms fielding 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 fielding 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
- verb fielding present participle of field. 0
- noun fielding Henry. 1707–54, English novelist and dramatist, noted particularly for his picaresque novel Tom Jones (1749) and for Joseph Andrews (1742), which starts as a parody of Richardson's Pamela: also noted as an enlightened magistrate and a founder of the Bow Street runners (1749) 0
- noun fielding Henry1707-54; Eng. novelist 0
- noun fielding The action of the verb field. 0