ALL meanings of fields
Fields
F f - noun fields Plural form of field. 1
- noun fields an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage. 1
- noun fields 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 fields Baseball. the team in the field, as opposed to the one at bat. the outfield. 1
- noun fields a sphere of activity, interest, etc., especially within a particular business or profession: the field of teaching; the field of Shakespearean scholarship. 1
- noun fields 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 fields a job location remote from regular workshop facilities, offices, or the like. 1
- noun fields 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 fields an expanse of anything: a field of ice. 1
- noun fields any region characterized by a particular feature, resource, activity, etc.: a gold field. 1
- noun fields the surface of a canvas, shield, etc., on which something is portrayed: a gold star on a field of blue. 1
- noun fields (in a flag) the ground of each division. 1
- noun fields 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 fields Also called field of view. Optics. the entire angular expanse visible through an optical instrument at a given time. 1
- noun fields Electricity. the structure in a generator or motor that produces a magnetic field around a rotating armature. 1
- noun fields 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 fields Photography. the area of a subject that is taken in by a lens at a particular diaphragm opening. 1
- noun fields Psychology. the total complex of interdependent factors within which a psychological event occurs and is perceived as occurring. 1
- noun fields 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 fields 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 fields Numismatics. the blank area of a coin, other than that of the exergue. 1
- noun fields Fox Hunting. the group of participants in a hunt, exclusive of the master of foxhounds and his staff. 1
- noun fields Heraldry. the whole area or background of an escutcheon. 1
- verb with object fields 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 fields to place in competition: to field a candidate for governor. 1
- verb with object fields to answer or reply skillfully: to field a difficult question. 1
- verb with object fields to put into action or on duty: to field police cars to patrol an area. 1
- verb with object fields Informal. field-test. 1
- verb without object fields to act as a fielder; field the ball. 1
- verb without object fields to take to the field. 1
- adjective fields 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 fields 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 fields of or relating to a field. 1
- adjective fields grown or cultivated in a field. 1
- adjective fields working in the fields of a farm: field laborers. 1
- adjective fields working as a salesperson, engineer, representative, etc., in the field: an insurance company's field agents. 1
- idioms fields 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 fields keep the field, to remain in competition or in battle; continue to contend: The troops kept the field under heavy fire. 1
- idioms fields out in left field. left field (def 3). 1
- idioms fields 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 fields 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 fields plural of field. 0
- verb fields third-person singular simple present indicative form of field. 0
- noun fields Dame Gracie. real name Grace Stansfield. 1898–1979, English popular singer and entertainer 0
- noun fields W. C. real name William Claude Dukenfield. 1880–1946, US film actor, noted for his portrayal of comic roles 0
- noun fields W. C.(born William Claude Dukenfield) 1880-1946; U.S. actor & comedian 0