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Word: field (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


Meaning:

Noun:

  • A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
  • A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
  • A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
  • computing An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
  • geology A region containing a particular mineral.
  • heraldry The background of the shield
  • mathematics A set having two operations called addition and multiplication under both of which all the elements of the set are commutative and associative; for which multiplication distributes over addition; and for both of which there exist an identity element and an inverse element.
  • physics A region affected by a particular force.
  • sport An area reserved for playing a game.
  • The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural.

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Verb:

  • transitive|sport To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
  • transitive|sport To place a team in (a game).
  • transitive To answer; to address.

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