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say it: feeld
field is a noun and verb meaning "a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed". It carries 21 recorded senses.
“they made a tour of Civil War battlefields”
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”
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”
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
a particular kind of commercial enterprise
“they are outstanding in their 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”
mathematics
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”
military
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found
“the diamond fields of South Africa”
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
a place where planes take off and land
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for field come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.