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What does field mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word field? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. a land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country
    1. the open country near or belonging to a town or city (usually used in plural)
  2. a wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals
    1. (geology) a region containing a particular mineral
  3. a place where competitive matches are carried out
    1. a place where a battle is fought; a battlefield
    2. an area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force
    3. a place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game
    4. a competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals
    5. (metonymy) all of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting
  4. various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors
    1. a physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region
    2. structures serving cognition
    3. a physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols
Verb
  1. (transitive, sports) to intercept or catch (a ball) and play it
  2. (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) to be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it
  3. (transitive, sports) to place a team in (a game)
  4. (transitive) to answer; to address
  5. (transitive) to defeat
  6. (transitive) to execute research (in the field)
  7. (transitive, military) to deploy in the field
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