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

n. (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"

n. a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"

n. 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"

n. a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"

n. temporary military shelter

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

n. small crude shelter used as a dwelling

n. a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"

n. a place where planes take off and land

n. a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields"

n. a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field"

n. extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth"

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

n. unit of data that is one or more bytes in size, together making up a record

n. a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

n. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"

n. a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"

v. play as a fielder

v. answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"

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

n. the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own

n. the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own

n. a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay

n. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

n. a pen for swine

n. a small house built of wood; usually in a wooded area

n. an opening deliberately made in or through something

n. rough shelter whose roof has only one slope

n. an outbuilding with a single story; used for shelter or storage

n. a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter

n. the commercial exchange (buying and selling on domestic or international markets) of goods and services; "Venice was an important center of trade with the East"; "they are accused of conspiring to constrain trade"

n. a road junction at which traffic streams circularly around a central island; "the accident blocked all traffic at the rotary"

n. a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay

n. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

n. a curved section or tier of seats in a hall or theater or opera house; usually the first tier above the orchestra; "they had excellent seats in the dress circle"

n. a complex of buildings in which an institution of higher education is housed

n. a part of a structure having some specific characteristic or function; "the spacious cooking area provided plenty of room for servants"

n. a specialized division of a large organization; "you'll find it in the hardware department"; "she got a job in the historical section of the Treasury"

n. a field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay

n. a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock

n. a relatively flat highland

n. a treeless grassy plain

n. a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; "what level is the office on?"

n. a piece of ground having specific characteristics or military potential; "they decided to attack across the rocky terrain"

n. territory ruled by a prince

n. an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; "within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"

n. a region marked off for administrative or other purposes

n. territory over which rule or control is exercised; "his domain extended into Europe"; "he made it the law of the land"

n. a country with a king as head of state

n. dependent state, part of a nation

n. range of jurisdiction or influence; "a bureaucracy...chiefly concerned with turf...and protecting the retirement system"

n. the territory claimed by a juvenile gang as its own

n. dominance or power through legal authority; "France held undisputed dominion over vast areas of Africa"; "the rule of Caesar"

n. a wide and open space or area as of surface or land or sky

n. the property possessed by a large mass

n. the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"

n. the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary; "the area of a rectangle"; "it was about 500 square feet in area"

n. the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small); "they tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion"; "about the magnitude of a small pea"

n. a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

n. greatness of magnitude

n. a degree in a continuum of size or quantity; "it was on the order of a mile"; "an explosion of a low order of magnitude"

n. the extent of something from side to side

n. the particular occupation for which you are trained

v. get over an illness or shock; "The patient is recuperating"