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Field (Noun)

Meaning¹

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".

Meaning²

A particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field".

Meaning⁴

A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat".

Examples

The farmer cultivated the entire field by hand to prepare it for the next crop.
A vast field of lavender stretched out before us, fragrant and breathtaking.
The baseball players sprinted across the field to their positions.
A sprinkler system watered the field overnight to keep the grass lush.
A yellow sea of sunflowers bloomed in the field that had once been barren.

(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".

Classification

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.

Meaning⁶

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".

Classification

Nouns denoting natural processes.

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Hypernyms

Environment

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Meaning⁷

(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information.

Classification

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.

Meaning⁸

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".

Classification

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

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Hypernyms

Hyponyms

Meaning⁹

The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it.

Classification

Nouns denoting natural phenomena.

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Hyponyms

Meaning¹⁰

A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa".

Classification

Nouns denoting spatial position.

Hypernyms

Meaning¹¹

All of the horses in a particular horse race.

Classification

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.

Meaning¹²

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".