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单词 field
释义

field

/fiːld /
noun
1An area of open land, especially one planted with crops or pasture, typically bounded by hedges or fences: a wheat field a field of corn...
  • As she walked past pastures and small fields of crops she could not bring herself to imagine her own life coming to that.
  • The project will reforest old crop fields and pastures and an abandoned rock quarry that has degraded over the years.
  • The country side was woods/swamps for the most part with open farm fields of wheat and corn, that was about three feet high.

Synonyms

meadow, pasture, paddock, green, pen, grassland, pastureland, sward;
park;
North American corral;
Irish & Canadian bawn
literary glebe, lea, mead, greensward
1.1A piece of land used for a particular purpose, especially an area marked out for a game or sport: a football field...
  • It's this talent, he argues, that has enabled them to maximise the potential playing area of a football field.
  • Usftl games are typically played on Sunday mornings on regulation football fields with 12-minute quarters.
  • I don't want to see injuries happen to anyone on the football field, but they are a part of the game.

Synonyms

pitch, ground, sports field, playing field, recreation ground, arena;
stadium
British informal park
1.2A large area of land or water completely covered in a particular substance, especially snow or ice: an ice field...
  • After about a mile I kinked down to cross the Seven where there's a good, arched bridge and where the river, flowing through fields of virgin snow, was trimmed with a glaze of grey translucent ice.
  • In this case, over time, the debris field covered about two to three square mile area.
  • Observations made earlier this year by the OMEGA instrument on Mars Express showed that Mars has vast fields of perennial water ice, stretching out from its south pole.
1.3An area rich in a natural product, typically oil or gas: a gas field...
  • Another wealthy tribe, the 16,000-strong Osage in Oklahoma, owns the rights to one of the richest oil and gas fields in the state.
  • Salekhard is surrounded by some of the richest oil and natural gas fields in the world.
  • The attention that was given to the detailed geometry of growth faults in the Gulf of Mexico, the North Sea, and the Niger Delta helped the exploitation of oil and gas fields in these areas.
1.4A place where a subject of scientific study or of artistic representation can be observed in its natural location or context.When traveling to a destination with large mammals you should learn about their behavior before going out in the field....
  • Getting out in the field over and over is the best way to build up knowledge.
1.5 (usually the field) An area which is or is to become the scene of a battle or campaign: a field of battle...
  • But while vanquishing the enemy on the field of battle is necessary, it is not sufficient.
  • I wondered if my classmates and I could make such a sacrifice for our country on the field of battle.
  • It would have been better if they had fallen on the field of battle.
1.6 archaic A battle: many a bloody field was to be fought...
  • Rupert made himself conspicuous during our Civil War in many a bloody field.
  • All these were slaughtered in savage fields for the faith and fell beside the standard of the Cross, breathing loyalty to God and man in their last agonies.
2A particular branch of study or sphere of activity or interest: we talked to professionals in various fields...
  • His main fields of interest include the study of labor markets and social stratification.
  • This curious publication listed its fields of interest as ‘magic, fortune telling, palmistry, graphology and spiritualism’.
  • According to the teacher, other factors that are at play when it comes to advising the students on career paths include studying skills and the passing of interest tests for specific fields.

Synonyms

area, sphere, area of activity, discipline, province, department, domain, sector, line, branch, subject, speciality, specialty, specialization, specialism;
French métier, forte
informal scene, bailiwick, pigeon
2.1 Computing A part of a record, representing an item of data.A PRM can be thought of as a Bayesian network whose variables are fields in a relational database....
  • Buffer overflows are also a major vulnerability and happen when too much data is input into a field.
  • You can create a collection of database fields that have unique values for each drawing in the set.
2.2 Linguistics & Psychology A general area of meaning within which individual words make particular distinctions.It is a matter of word fields and changes of meaning, but also about the creation of new words....
  • Those other words provide context and define the semantic fields being used.
  • This predictability concerns specifically psychological processes, which, by the author's definition, take place within a field of meaning.
3A space or range within which objects are visible from a particular viewpoint or through a piece of apparatus. See also field of vision.Cassini is now close enough to Enceladus that the moon does not fit within the camera field of view....
  • Identification of the situs is often better made by MRI because of the wider field of view.
  • Integral has a large field of view, enabling it to scan our Milky Way galaxy for neutron stars and black hole activity.

Synonyms

scope, range, sweep, reach, extent, purview;
limits, confines, parameters, bounds, horizons
4 (usually the field) All the participants in a contest or sport: he destroyed the rest of the field with a devastating injection of speed...
  • West got away, followed by one other rider, with the rest of the field contesting a very close and tactical bunch sprint in Ramsey town.
  • Craig was head and shoulders above the rest of the field beating his nearest rival by over a minute.
  • At 11, she won Hawaii's most prestigious women's event - beating the rest of the field by nine strokes.

Synonyms

competitors, entrants, competition, runners;
applicants, candidates, possibles, possibilities, hopefuls
4.1 Cricket Fielders collectively, or the manner in which they are spread over the pitch: he sees the ball early and strokes it through the gap in the field...
  • As far as the field is concerned, this year we've had the deepest and strongest field ever.
  • Is the field in, hovering around the centre, or is it deep-set, flung back to the periphery?
  • Other situations may also exist where there is an open gap in the field due simply to the positioning of the fielders.
4.2A fielder.Michael Mclouhglin was the best right field....
  • Thomas Hoyos was the best center field.
5 Physics The region in which a particular condition prevails, especially one in which a force or influence is effective regardless of the presence or absence of a material medium.This approach describes how electrons are influenced by the fields produced by others in the Fermi sea....
  • They argue that quantum effects (such as intense radiation fields at the funnel) may close the Einstein-Rosen bridge.
  • In addition, possible polarization effects due to large external steady state electrical fields have been neglected.
5.1The force exerted or potentially exerted in a field: the variation in the strength of the field...
  • What is to protect us then from the pathological possibilities of strong gravitation fields?
  • Generating and detecting x rays in the strong fields used for magnetic resonance is difficult, but it can be done.
  • It agrees with the Newtonian theory for low speeds and weak gravitational fields, but differs from it at high speeds and strong fields.
6 Mathematics A system subject to two binary operations analogous to those for the multiplication and addition of real numbers, and having similar commutative and distributive laws.One of Weil's major achievements was his proof of the Riemann hypothesis for the congruence zeta functions of algebraic function fields....
  • He became interested in Artin's early work which was on quadratic number fields, in particular the analytic and arithmetic theory.
  • His work allowed computations in groups to be replaced by computations in certain polynomial algebras over the field of p elements.
7 Heraldry The surface of an escutcheon or of one of its divisions.In the coat of arms of Amsterdam, the field of the escutcheon (heraldic shield) is red....
  • The first field (top left corner) of the escutcheon shows the national arms.
7.1An area on a flag with a single background colour: fifty white stars on a blue field...
  • The protesters were rounded up underneath the fluttering white cross and red field of Denmark's flag.
  • It was a flag bearing thirteen stars on a blue field with red and white bars.
  • The Czech flag consists of a lower red field and an upper white field with a blue wedge reaching from the flagpole side of the flag to its center.
verb
1 [no object] chiefly Cricket & Baseball Attempt to catch or stop the ball and return it after it has been hit by the batsman or batter, thereby preventing runs being scored or base runners advancing.First, he took his eyes off the ball while fielding at short leg, and failed to notice that Sarwan had lobbed an attempted pull over his right shoulder....
  • He was a brilliant fielder preferring to field in the deep, where he took some outstanding catches, to close in fielding.
  • In spite of the soaking wet ball, Joiner also fielded well, as befitted one who, though it was never likely to be his berth in the senior game, was in his schooldays a 1st-XV full-back.
1.1 [with object] Catch or stop (the ball) and return it: his swinging bunt was fielded by the Chicago catcher...
  • First baseman Jack Clark fielded the ball and threw to pitcher Todd Worrell who was covering first.
  • Ruhle fielded the ball and threw to first for an apparent double play.
  • Orioles right fielder Ken Singleton fielded the ball off the wall and threw to his cutoff man Rich Dauer who in turn fired the ball home.

Synonyms

catch, stop, retrieve;
return, throw back
2 [with object] Send out (a team or individual) to play in a game: Leeds fielded a team of youngsters...
  • Under new Olympic rules, only the top 16 nations are allowed to field teams at the games.
  • One is that he fielded a weakened team and then won the Challenge Cup final, so I'm sure he feels it was justified.
  • With nine men and five women this is the first time Great Britain has fielded a full team at a World Cup event.

Synonyms

put in the team, send out, play, put up
2.1(Of a political party) put up (a candidate) to stand in an election: the Ecology party fielded 109 candidates...
  • All three main political parties are also fielding candidates in these elections, as are the Greens.
  • The Socialist Equality Party is fielding candidates in the federal election to lay the basis for a mass political movement of the working class that will fight for this perspective.
  • ALL three major political parties have fielded candidates for the forthcoming by-election for the Ogbourne ward of Kennet District Council.
2.2Deploy (an army): Russia was committed to fielding 800,000 men...
  • Unfortunately, the Zulus did not resort to guerrilla warfare as previous opponents had done, but fielded an enormous army.
  • This was an organizational imperative made necessary by the ever larger armies fielded by continental military systems during the 19th century.
  • Each side fielded armies that were very similar in tactics, organization, and equipment, and both used African and Gallic auxiliary troops.

Synonyms

deploy, position, post, station, range, dispose
3 [with object] Deal with (a difficult question, telephone call, etc.).The other day, fielding questions about her aversion for holding press conferences, she openly admitted to her feeling that media exercises may not yield the desired results....
  • He's fielding questions from young people around the world.
  • Mr. Curtis will not be fielding any questions after his remarks, and we kindly request that you respect the family's wishes.

Synonyms

deal with, handle, cope with, answer, reply to, respond to, react to;
parry, deflect, turn aside, evade, sidestep, avoid, dodge, answer evasively, fend off
informal duck
adjective [attributive]
1Carried out or working in the natural environment, rather than in a laboratory or office: field observations and interviews...
  • Flight Lieutenant Prudence Buckton said it was great to be out of her office and in a field environment.
  • These studies can either be carried out in laboratory cultures or preferably in a field environment.
  • Many experiments in fields like social psychology are laboratory experiments rather than field experiments.

Synonyms

practical, hands-on, applied, actual, active, experiential, empirical, in the field, non-theoretical
rare empiric
1.1(Of military equipment) light and mobile for use on campaign: field artillery...
  • The full bag is lightweight and fits into military field clothing pockets.
  • Light siege engines and field artillery bulked behind the infantry, crews crouched at their weapons.
  • Matrikon was chosen to develop the main application and Tridon to implement the hardware on the field equipment.

Synonyms

mobile, portable, transportable, movable, manoeuvrable, light, lightweight
rare portative
1.2Used in names of animals or plants found in the open country, rather than among buildings or as cultivated varieties, e.g.: field mouse.The fire crackled, breaking the silent slumber of the field animals who had settled down in their dens....
  • My former ant loving celly, Penguin, would be in seventh heaven if left to his own devices with the field ants.
  • The Field Mouse is a small rodent, found in long rolling plains or alternately old houses and any place in between.
1.3Denoting a game played outdoors on a marked field.The game, the fastest and most skilful field game on the planet, requires such devotion....
  • The NLL uses the Canadian box game with certain variations taken from field lacrosse.
  • Both sides get to play a number of increasingly stupid field games until a winner is decided.

Phrases

hold the field

in the field

keep the field

lead the field

play the field

take the field

Origin

Old English feld (also denoting a large tract of open country; compare with veld), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch veld and German Feld.

Rhymes

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