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field noun

  /fild/ , /fiːld/
  • A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
  • A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
  • (physics) A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
  • A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
champ, terrain
  • A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
champ, campo
  • (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
  • (heraldry) The background of the shield.
champ
  • A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
terrain, champ
  • (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
corps, champ
  • (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
rubrique, champ

field verb

  /fild/ , /fiːld/
  • (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
attraper
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