field

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   select (a team or individual player) for a game

   The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl

2. 2
   verb

   answer adequately or successfully

   The lawyer fielded all questions from the press

3. 3
   noun

   a particular kind of commercial enterprise

   they are outstanding in their field

4. 4
   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

5. 5
   noun

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

   they made a tour of Civil War battlefields

6. 6
   noun

   a region in which active military operations are in progress

   the army was in the field awaiting action

7. 7
   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

8. 8
   noun

   a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

   The farmer planted a field of wheat.

Etymology

From Middle English feeld, feld (“field”), from Old English feld (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut). Cognates Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fial, fälj (“field”), Saterland Frisian Fäild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German and Luxembourgish Feld (“field”), Vilamovian fald (“field”), Danish, Norwegian felt (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”), Finnish pelto (“field”), Asturian and…