A Quick and Simple Dictionary

Field

1. Proper noun.  (surname) .
2. Noun.  A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
3. Noun.  A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
4. Noun.  The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural.
5. Noun.  (physics) A region affected by a particular force.
6. Noun.  A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
7. Noun.  (algebra) 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 (except for the additive identity).
8. Noun.  (sport) An area reserved for playing a game.
9. Noun.  (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
10. Noun.  An area that can be seen at a given time.
11. Noun.  A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
12. Noun.  (heraldry) The background of the shield.
13. Noun.  (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
14. Noun.  (baseball) The team in a match who is throwing the ball and trying to catch the ball hit by the other team (the bat).
15. Verb.  (transitive, sport) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
16. Verb.  (baseball, softball) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
17. Verb.  (transitive, sport) To place a team in (a game).
18. Verb.  (transitive) To answer; to address.