field

noun

1. a particular kind of commercial enterprise

e.g. they are outstanding in their field

Synonym: field of operationline of business

2. a place where planes take off and land

Synonym: airfieldlanding fieldflying field

3. the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

Synonym: field of view

4. a branch of knowledge

e.g. in what discipline is his doctorate?
teachers should be well trained in their subject
anthropology is the study of human beings

Synonym: disciplinesubjectsubject areasubject fieldfield of studystudybailiwick

5. all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

6. all of the horses in a particular horse race

7. (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

e.g. the set of all rational numbers is a field

8. (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

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

e.g. they made a tour of Civil War battlefields

Synonym: battlefieldbattlegroundfield of battlefield of honor

10. a region in which active military operations are in progress

e.g. the army was in the field awaiting action
he served in the Vietnam theater for three years

Synonym: field of operationstheatertheater of operationstheatretheatre of operations

11. somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected

e.g. anthropologists do much of their work in the field

12. a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed

e.g. he planted a field of wheat

13. a piece of land prepared for playing a game

e.g. the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field

Synonym: playing fieldathletic fieldplaying area

14. a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found

e.g. the diamond fields of South Africa

15. extensive tract of level open land

e.g. they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
he longed for the fields of his youth

Synonym: plainchampaign

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

Synonym: field of forceforce field

17. a particular environment or walk of life

e.g. his social sphere is limited
it was a closed area of employment
he's out of my orbit

Synonym: spheredomainareaorbitarena

field

verb

1. select (a team or individual player) for a game

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

2. answer adequately or successfully

e.g. The lawyer fielded all questions from the press

3. play as a fielder

4. catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

1. 地;田;牧场
A field is an area of grass, for example in a park or on a farm. A field is also an area of land on which a crop is grown.

field是什么意思

e.g. ...a field of wheat...
麦田
e.g. They went for walks together in the fields.
他们一起在田野里漫步。

2. 运动场;球场
A sports field is an area of grass where sports are played.

e.g. ...a football field...
足球场
e.g. He was the fastest thing I ever saw on a baseball field...
他是我在棒球场上见过的跑得最快的家伙。

3. 矿产地;矿田
A field is an area of land or sea bed under which large amounts of a particular mineral have been found.

field的反义词

e.g. ...an extensive natural gas field in Alaska.
阿拉斯加一个巨大的天然气田

4. (磁、引力或电)场
A magnetic, gravitational, or electric field is the area in which that particular force is strong enough to have an effect.

e.g. Some people are worried that electromagnetic fields from electric power lines could increase the risk of cancer.
有些人担心输电线的电磁场可能增加致癌几率。

5. 专业;学科;领域
A particular field is a particular subject of study or type of activity.

e.g. Exciting artistic breakthroughs have recently occurred in the fields of painting, sculpture and architecture...
绘画、雕塑和建筑领域最近出现了激动人心的艺术突破。
e.g. Each of the authors of the tapes is an expert in his field.
每盘磁带的撰稿人都是其研究领域的专家。

6. 字段;信息组;栏
A field is an area of a computer's memory or a program where data can be entered, edited, or stored.

e.g. Go to a site like Yahoo! Finance and enter 'AOL' in the Get Quotes field.
登录诸如“雅虎财经”这样的站点，在“股票行情”栏输入“美国在线”。

7. 战场;战地
You can refer to the area where fighting or other military action in a war takes place as the field or the field of battle .

e.g. We never defeated them on the field of battle.
我们从未在战场上打败过他们。
e.g. ...the need for politicians to leave day-to-day decisions to commanders in the field.
政治家允许战地指挥官自主做出日常决定的必要

8. 视野;视域
Your field of vision or your visual field is the area that you can see without turning your head.

field什么意思

e.g. Our field of vision is surprisingly wide.
我们的视野出人意料地开阔。

9. (体育比赛的)所有参赛者，出场阵容
The field is a way of referring to all the competitors taking part in a particular race or sports contest.

e.g. Going into the fourth lap, the two most broadly experienced riders led the field...
进入第四圈时，两名身经百战的骑手开始领先。
e.g. The field were so close that they would have caught us if I hadn't begun the sprint.
其他参赛选手紧随身后，如果不是我开始冲刺，他们就会赶上我们了。

10. 实地;野外
You use field to describe work or study that is done in a real, natural environment rather than in a theoretical way or in controlled conditions.

e.g. I also conducted a field study among the boys about their attitude to relationships...
我还对男孩子们进行了一项有关两性关系态度的实地调查。
e.g. Our teachers took us on field trips to observe plants and animals, firsthand...
老师带我们去野游，对动植物进行实地观察。

11. (在板球、棒球或圆场棒球中)防守，担任守队
In a game of cricket, baseball, or rounders, the team that is fielding is trying to catch the ball, while the other team is trying to hit it.

e.g. When we are fielding, the umpires keep looking at the ball.
我们防守的时候，裁判们一直看着球。

12. (通常成功地)回答，处理(问题)
If you say that someone fields a question, you mean that they answer it or deal with it, usually successfully.

e.g. He was later shown on television, fielding questions.
他后来出现在电视上，答复问题。

13. 使…出场;让…参加比赛
If a sports team fields a particular number or type of players, the players are chosen to play for the team on a particular occasion.

field什么意思

e.g. England intend fielding their strongest team in next month's World Youth Championship.
英格兰意欲在下月的世界青年锦标赛中推出他们的最强阵容。

14. 让…参加竞选;让…作竞选候选人
If a candidate in an election is representing a political party, you can say that the party is fielding that candidate.

e.g. There are signs that the new party aims to field candidates in elections scheduled for February next year.
有迹象表明新党意欲推举候选人参加定于明年 2 月举行的选举。

15. 纵情享受;肆意地做;尽情地做
If someone is having a field day, they are very busy doing something that they enjoy, even though it may be hurtful for other people.

e.g. In our absence the office gossips are probably having a field day...
我们不在的时候，办公室里大概谣言四起了吧。
e.g. I suspect that the lawyers are going to have a field day before it's all sorted out.
我想律师们要好好忙活一通才能把一切都弄停当了。

16. 在实地;在野外
Work or study that is done in the field is done in a real, natural environment rather than in a theoretical way or in controlled conditions.

e.g. The zoo is doing major conservation work, both in captivity and in the field.
无论在圈养场还是在野外，动物园在动物保护方面都承担了主要的工作。

17. 领先;带头
If you say that someone leads the field in a particular activity, you mean that they are better, more active, or more successful than everyone else who is involved in it.

e.g. When it comes to picking up awards they lead the field by miles.
他们在拿奖方面遥遥领先。

18. 到处拈花惹草;滥交
If someone plays the field, they have a number of different romantic or sexual relationships.

e.g. He gave up playing the field and married a year ago.
他不再处处留情，一年前结了婚。

1. 田地：另外,如'田地(field)'在数学中被赋予了专门的数学意义'场、域'. 此外还有一些数学术语(technical jargons),如integrable(可积的). 特殊的表达语言和术语是出于精确性(precision)的考虑. 数学上管语言和逻辑的精确性为'严谨性(rigour)'.

2. field：fieldrepresentative; 外地代表