Noun | 1. | field - a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat" |
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3. | field - somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected; "anthropologists do much of their work in the field" | |
4. | field - a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" Synonyms: branch of knowledge, discipline, field of study, subject area, subject field, bailiwick, subject, study | |
5. | field - the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it Synonyms: field of force, force field | |
6. | field - a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field" Synonyms: field of operation, line of business | |
7. | field - a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" | |
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10. | field - (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; "the set of all rational numbers is a field" | |
11. | field - a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years" | |
12. | field - all of the horses in a particular horse race | |
13. | field - all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event | |
14. | field - a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa" | |
15. | field - (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information | |
16. | field - the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) Synonyms: field of view | |
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Verb | 1. | field - catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket |
2. | field - play as a fielder | |
3. | field - answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press" | |
4. | field - select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl" |
(data, database) | field - An area of a database record, or
graphical user interface form, into which a particular
item of data is entered. Example usage: "The telephone number field is not really a numerical field", "Why do we need a four-digit field for the year?". A database column is the set of all instances of a given field from all records in a table. |