Definition of "Field" :

noun: a particular kind of commercial enterprise

"They are outstanding in their field."

noun: a place where planes take off and land

noun: the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

noun: a branch of knowledge

noun: all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

noun: all of the horses in a particular horse race

noun: (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."

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

noun: a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought

"They made a tour of Civil War battlefields."

noun: a region in which active military operations are in progress

"The army was in the field awaiting action."

noun: 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."

noun: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

"He planted a field of wheat."

noun: a piece of land prepared for playing a game

"The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field."

noun: a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

"The diamond fields of South Africa."

noun: extensive tract of level open land

"He longed for the fields of his youth."

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

noun: a particular environment or walk of life

verb: select (a team or individual player) for a game

"The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl."

verb: answer adequately or successfully

"The lawyer fielded all questions from the press."

verb: play as a fielder

verb: catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket