FIELD: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for FIELD?

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The synonyms of “Field” are: bailiwick, discipline, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field, field of operation, line of business, field of view, area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere, field of force, force field, playing area, playing field, airfield, flying field, landing field, champaign, plain, battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations, meadow, pasture, paddock, green, pen, grassland, pastureland, sward, sports field, ground, recreation ground, area of activity, province, department, sector, line, branch, speciality, specialty, specialization, specialism, scope, range, sweep, reach, extent, purview, competitors, entrants, competition, runners, catch, stop, retrieve, put in the team, send out, play, put up, deploy, position, post, station, dispose, deal with, handle, cope with, answer, reply to, respond to, react to, practical, hands-on, applied, actual, active, experiential, empirical, in the field, mobile, portable, transportable, movable, manoeuvrable, light, lightweight

Field as a Noun

Definitions of "Field" as a noun

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “field” as a noun can have the following definitions:

• A place where a subject of scientific study or of artistic representation can be observed in its natural location or context.
• A branch of knowledge.
• All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event.
• The region in which a particular condition prevails, especially one in which a force or influence is effective regardless of the presence or absence of a material medium.
• The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument.
• An area which is or is to become the scene of a battle or campaign.
• A place where planes take off and land.
• A region in which active military operations are in progress.
• A general area of meaning within which individual words make particular distinctions.
• An area on a flag with a single background colour.
• A set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information.
• A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found.
• (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information.
• All the participants in a contest or sport.
• A fielder.
• A particular environment or walk of life.
• A part of a record, representing an item of data.
• All of the horses in a particular horse race.
• A piece of land used for a particular purpose, especially an area marked out for a game or sport.
• A system subject to two binary operations analogous to those for the multiplication and addition of real numbers, and having similar commutative and distributive laws.
• A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought.
• 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.
• An area rich in a natural product, typically oil or gas.
• Fielders collectively, or the manner in which they are spread over the pitch.
• The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it.
• A space or range within which objects are visible from a particular viewpoint or through a piece of apparatus.
• The surface of an escutcheon or of one of its divisions.
• A piece of land prepared for playing a game.
• A large area of land or water completely covered in a particular substance, especially snow or ice.
• A particular kind of commercial enterprise.
• Extensive tract of level open land.
• Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected.
• An area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences.
• The force exerted or potentially exerted in a field.
• A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
• A particular branch of study or sphere of activity or interest.
• A battle.
• (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.

Synonyms of "Field" as a noun (64 Words)

airfield	An area of land set aside for the take-off, landing, and maintenance of aircraft.
area	The extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary. The area of a triangle.
area of activity	The extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary.
arena	A level area surrounded by seating, in which sports, entertainments, and other public events are held. He has re entered the political arena.
bailiwick	The area over which a bailiff has jurisdiction. The warden had the right to arrest all poachers found within his bailiwick.
battlefield	The piece of ground on which a battle is or was fought. Battlefield conditions.
battleground	A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought.
branch	A part of a forked or branching shape. Botany is a branch of biology.
champaign	Extensive tract of level open land.
competition	The activity or condition of striving to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others. The competition for university places is greater than ever this year.
competitors	The contestant you hope to defeat.
department	The territorial and administrative division of some countries (such as France. The council s finance department.
discipline	The controlled behaviour resulting from such training. For such a plan to work requires discipline.
domain	A particular environment or walk of life. His domain extended into Europe.
entrants	Any new participant in some activity. New entrants to the country must go though immigration procedures.
extent	The point or degree to which something extends. An orchard of considerable extent.
field of battle	A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
field of force	A branch of knowledge.
field of honor	The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it.
field of operation	A piece of land prepared for playing a game.
field of operations	A region in which active military operations are in progress.
field of study	A particular kind of commercial enterprise.
field of view	The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument.
flying field	An instance of traveling by air.
force field	A putout of a base runner who is required to run; the putout is accomplished by holding the ball while touching the base to which the runner must advance before the runner reaches that base.
grassland	A large open area of country covered with grass, especially one used for grazing. Acres of rough grassland.
green	Green vegetables. Two girls in red and green.
ground	Relating to actions or activities taking place on the ground rather than the air. He dropped the logs on the ground.
landing field	The act of coming down to the earth (or other surface.
line	An arrangement of soldiers or ships in a column or line formation a line of battle. A line block.
line of business	A conceptual separation or distinction.
meadow	A piece of low ground near a river. A meadow ready for cutting.
orbit	One complete circuit round an orbited body. The satellite will complete one orbit every 12 hours.
paddock	An enclosure adjoining a racecourse or track where horses or cars are gathered and displayed before a race. The sheep have returned to their previously grazed paddocks.
pasture	Bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle. A range of pasture grasses.
pastureland	A field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock.
pen	An electronic device like a pen used in conjunction with a writing surface to enter commands or data into a computer. She was forced to support herself by the pen.
plain	A basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side. They emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain.
playing area	The action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation.
playing field	The action of taking part in a game or sport or other recreation.
province	The whole of a country outside the capital, especially when regarded as lacking in sophistication or culture. She knew little about wine that had been her father s province.
purview	Range of experience or thought. Such a case might be within the purview of the legislation.
range	A row of buildings. He dreamed of a home on the range.
reach	The act of physically reaching or thrusting out. He could sail a clear reach for Key Canaka.
recreation ground	Activity that refreshes and recreates; activity that renews your health and spirits by enjoyment and relaxation.
runners	A person who is employed to deliver messages or documents. He sent a runner over with the contract.
scope	A telescope microscope or other device having a name ending in scope. Infrared night scopes.
sector	The minimum track length that can be assigned to store information unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes. The government aimed to reassure the industrial and commercial sector.
specialism	An area of activity, work, or study that someone concentrates on or is expert in. He was one of the early pioneers in the developing specialism of exercise medicine.
speciality	An asset of special worth or utility. His speciality was watercolours.
specialization	The act of specializing; making something suitable for a special purpose. Bats show elegant physiological specializations in the auditory sphere.
specialty	The special line of work you have adopted as your career.
sphere	The apparent surface of the imaginary sphere on which celestial bodies appear to be projected. The room was littered with books maps and spheres.
sports field	The occupation of athletes who compete for pay.
study	A thing that is or deserves to be investigated the subject of an individual s study. The study of global problems.
subject	A person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures someone who is an object of investigation. The legislation is applicable only to British subjects.
subject area	One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the grammatical constituent about which something is predicated.
subject field	A person who owes allegiance to that nation.
sward	The upper layer of soil, especially when covered with grass.
sweep	A sweepstake. The sweep of the plains.
theater	A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented. He served in the Vietnam theater for three years.
theater of operations	A building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented.
theatre	An operating theatre. The theatre nurse.
theatre of operations	Activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign.

Usage Examples of "Field" as a noun

• The army was in the field awaiting action.
• A gas field.
• The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field.
• A football field.
• He planted a field of wheat.
• An ice field.
• They are outstanding in their field.
• Anthropologists do much of their work in the field.
• He longed for the fields of his youth.
• A field of battle.
• The diamond fields of South Africa.
• He sees the ball early and strokes it through the gap in the field.
• Many a bloody field was to be fought.
• The set of all rational numbers is a field.
• A field of corn.
• A wheat field.
• The variation in the strength of the field.
• They made a tour of Civil War battlefields.
• He destroyed the rest of the field with a devastating injection of speed.
• We talked to professionals in various fields.
• Fifty white stars on a blue field.

Field as a Verb

Definitions of "Field" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “field” as a verb can have the following definitions:

• Send out (a team or individual) to play in a game.
• Deal with (a difficult question, phone call, etc.).
• Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.
• Play as a fielder.
• Deploy (an army.
• Catch or stop (the ball) and return it.
• Attempt to catch or stop the ball and return it after it has been hit by the batsman or batter, thereby preventing runs being scored or base runners advancing.
• Select (a team or individual player) for a game.
• (of a political party) put up (a candidate) to stand in an election.
• Answer adequately or successfully.

Synonyms of "Field" as a verb (20 Words)

answer	Give the correct answer or solution to. The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution.
catch	Catch up with and possibly overtake. Catch the mood.
cope with	Come to terms with.
deal with	Take action with respect to (someone or something.
deploy	(of troops) move into position for military action. Forces were deployed at strategic locations.
dispose	Overcome (a rival or threat. People now have substantial assets to dispose of after their death.
handle	Handle effectively. He handled himself with considerable aplomb.
play	Compete against another player or team in a sporting match. A fountain played in the courtyard.
position	Promote (a product, service, or business) within a particular sector of a market, or as the fulfilment of that sector’s specific requirements. I had positioned her as my antagonist.
post	Publicize with or as if with a poster. The newspaper posted him in Timbuktu.
put in the team	Put into a certain place or abstract location.
put up	Arrange thoughts, ideas, temporal events.
range	Place or arrange in a row or rows or in a specified manner. The instruments ranged from tuba to cymbals.
react to	Show a response or a reaction to something.
reply to	React verbally.
respond to	Show a response or a reaction to something.
retrieve	(of a dog) find and bring back (game that has been shot. Labradors are used to retrieve the birds after the flush.
send out	Assign to a station.
station	Assign to a station. A young girl had stationed herself by the door.
stop	Stop and wait as if awaiting further instructions or developments. They stopped the strikers wages.

Usage Examples of "Field" as a verb

• The lawyer fielded all questions from the press.
• Leeds fielded a team of youngsters.
• Russia was committed to fielding 800,000 men.
• The Ecology party fielded 109 candidates.
• The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl.
• His swinging bunt was fielded by the Chicago catcher.

Field as an Adjective

Definitions of "Field" as an adjective

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “field” as an adjective can have the following definitions:

• Carried out or working in the natural environment, rather than in a laboratory or office.
• Used in names of animals or plants found in the open country, rather than among buildings or as cultivated varieties, e.g.: field mouse.
• (of military equipment) light and mobile for use on campaign.
• Denoting a game played outdoors on a marked field.

Synonyms of "Field" as an adjective (15 Words)

active	(of a disease) in which the symptoms are manifest; not in remission or latent. Hemingway favors active constructions.
actual	Existing now; current. The actual things that produced the emotion you experienced.
applied	Concerned with concrete problems or data rather than with fundamental principles- Sidney Hook. Applied psychology.
empirical	Derived from experiment and observation rather than theory. An empirical treatment of a disease about which little is known.
experiential	Relating to or resulting from experience. The rich experiential content of the teachings of the older philosophers.
hands-on	Involving active participation.
in the field	Directed or bound inward.
light	Of the military or industry using or being relatively small or light arms or equipment. A light comedy.
lightweight	Of thin material or build and weighing less than average. Lightweight wood.
manoeuvrable	Capable of maneuvering or changing position. The plane was surprisingly fast and manoeuvrable for its size.
mobile	Relating to mobile phones handheld computers and similar technology. A highly mobile face.
movable	Capable of being moved. They stripped the town of all movable objects and fled.
portable	Of a motor designed to be attached to the outside of a boat’s hull. A portable television.
practical	Guided by practical experience and observation rather than theory. A practical knowledge of Japanese.
transportable	Able to be carried or moved. The first transportable phones.

Usage Examples of "Field" as an adjective

• Field observations and interviews.
• Field artillery.

Associations of "Field" (30 Words)

amphitheater	An oval large stadium with tiers of seats; an arena in which contests and spectacles are held.
area	A sunken enclosure giving access to the basement of a building. The room is twelve square feet in area.
arena	The central area of an ancient Roman amphitheater where contests and spectacles were held; especially an area that was strewn with sand. He has re entered the political arena.
badminton	A game played on a court with light long-handled rackets used to volley a shuttlecock over a net.
boxing	The enclosure of something in a package or box.
cultivator	A person or thing that cultivates something. They were herders of cattle and cultivators of corn.
cycling	The sport or activity of riding a bicycle. Cycle racing has three main forms: road racing (typically over long distances), pursuit (on an oval track), and cyclo-cross (over rough, open country).
grandstand	Of a view seen from an advantageous position as if from a grandstand. She never misses a chance to grandstand.
grassy	Characteristic of or resembling grass. An intense grassy green.
gymnastics	Exercises developing or displaying physical agility and coordination The modern sport of gymnastics typically involves exercises on bars beam floor and vaulting horse. These vocal gymnastics make the music unforgettable.
harrow	Draw a harrow over land. Todd could take it whereas I m harrowed by it.
hockey	A game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field two opposing teams use curved hockey sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents net.
jog	A spell of jogging. Right now she is jogging two miles a day.
jumping	The act of jumping propelling yourself off the ground. The jumping was unexpected.
lawn	A field of cultivated and mowed grass. She was sitting in a deckchair on the lawn.
leach	The process of leaching. The nutrient is quickly leached away.
paddock	Keep a horse in a paddock. I went across the course to see the horses in the paddock.
percolate	Cause (a solvent) to pass through a permeable substance in order to extract a soluble constituent. Continental ideas on art science and architecture percolated from Venice to London.
racetrack	A course over which races are run.
running	The act of participating in an athletic competition involving running on a track. A running joke.
shoes	A particular situation.
soccer	A form of football played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball which may not be handled during play except by the goalkeepers.
sport	Someone who engages in sports. I do not wish to show myself the sport of a man like Wildeve.
sporting	Connected with or interested in sport. A major sporting event.
stadium	An ancient Roman or Greek measure of length about 185 metres originally the length of a stadium.
tennis	A game in which two or four players strike a ball with rackets over a net stretched across a court The usual form originally called lawn tennis is played with a felt covered hollow rubber ball on a grass clay or artificial surface.
volley	Make a volley. The infantry let off a couple of volleys.
volleyball	The inflated ball used in volleyball.
weaver	A person who weaves fabric.
yard	A square or cubic yard especially of sand or other building materials. They opened a repair yard on the edge of town.