n. A piece of cleared or cultivated ground, or of land suitable for pasture or tillage; specifically, any part of a farm inclosed or set apart from the rest, as for a special use, except a garden, a wood-lot, or an orchard, and the appurtenances of the buildings: as, a wheat-field, or a field of potatoes.n. Any piece of open ground set apart or used for a special purpose: as, ableaching-field.n. Specifically In base-ball, cricket, and similar games: The ground on which the game is played; more specifically, in base-ball, that part of the ground on which the fielders play, and known as in-field, out-field, right-, center-, and left-field, according to the station of the corresponding players. See .n. The fielders collectively: as, the work of the field was excellent.n. Any continuous extent of surface considered as analogous to a level expanse of ground: as, a field of ice or snow. See ice-field.n. Specifically The ground or blank space on which figures are drawn: as, the field or ground of a picture.n. In numismatics, that part of the surface of a coin or medal which is left unoccupied by the main device (‘type’).n. In heraldry, the escutcheon, considered as a plane of a given tincture upon which the different bearings appear to be laid; also, when the escutcheon is divided by impalement or quartering, each division, as a quarter or the half divided pale wise, it being considered as the whole escutcheon with reference to that coat of arms. (See cut under shield.) In a flag the field is the ground of each division.n. In entomology, a place, space, or area, as a division of the surface of a wing: as, the posterior of the discoidal field.n. Any space or region; specifically, any region, open or covered with forests, considered with reference to its particular products or features; an extent of ground covered with or containing some special natural formation or production: as, diamond-, gold-, coal-, or oil- (petroleum-) fields.n. A scene of operations; open space of any extent considered as a theater of action: as, researches in the field; the field of military operations; a hunting-field; the general's headquarters were in the field.n. Specifically A battle-ground; the space on which a battle is or has been fought; hence, a battle; an action: as, the field of Waterloo; the field was held against all odds; to show how fields are lost and won.n. The sphere or range of any connected series of actions; a subject or class of subjects concerning which observations or reflections are made; a class of connected objects toward which human energies are directed; the place where or that about which one busies himself: as, his field of operations was his counting-house; philology is an attractive field of research; a wide field of contemplation.n. In physics, a portion of space considered as traversed by equipotential surfaces and lines of force, so that at every point of it a force would be exerted upon a particle placed there.n. In sporting: Those taking part in a hunt.n. All the entries collectively against which a single contestant has to compete: as, to back a crew against the fieldn. Specifically, all the contestants not individually favored in betting: as, to bet on the field in a horse-race.n. To maintain one's ground against all comers.In baseball and cricket, to catch or stop and return to the necessary place: as, to field the ball.To take to the field; do anything in the field, as exploring, fighting, or searching for food.In base-ball and cricket, to act as a fielder. Also (in cricket) to fag out.n. Specifically, in electric machines, that part of the structure in which the magnetic flux is excited. The electrical or mechanical power is produced by rotation of the armature in the magnetic field or of the magnetic field in the armature. See cuts under armature.n. In mathematics, same as domain, 8.In chem. industries, to induce oxidation or other change by exposing to the air and solar heat. A term not in general use.
