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(verb) answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fileded all questions from the press" |
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Related Words: answer, reply, respond |
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(noun) a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field" |
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Synonyms: field of operation, line of business |
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Related Words: business, business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
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(verb) play as a fielder, in baseball or cricket |
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Related Words: play |
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(verb) catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket |
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Related Words: handle, palm |
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(noun) the area that is visible through an optical instrument |
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Synonyms: field of view |
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Related Words: visual image, visual percept |
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(noun) all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event |
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Related Words: set |
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(noun) (horse racing) all of the horses in a particular race |
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Related Words: set |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: scalar field, set |
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(noun) a region in which military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action" |
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Related Words: region |
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(noun) 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" |
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Related Words: region |
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(noun) a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat" |
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Related Words: campus, firebreak, fireguard, grainfield, grounds, lawn, paddy, paddy field, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, rice paddy, tract, yard |
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(noun) a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa" |
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Related Words: coalfield, gasfield, geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region, oilfield |
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(noun) the space around a body within which it can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it |
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Synonyms: field of force, force field |
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Related Words: electric field, flux, gravitational field, magnetic field, magnetic flux, physical phenomenon |
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(noun) extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" |
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Synonyms: champaign, plain |
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Related Words: Olympia, dry land, earth, flat, ground, land, moor, moorland, snowfield, solid ground, steppe, terra firma, tundra |
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(noun) a place where planes take off and land |
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Synonyms: airfield, flying field, landing field |
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Related Words: aerodrome, airdrome, airport, airstrip, auxiliary airfield, facility, flight strip, installation, landing strip, strip |
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(noun) a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields" |
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Synonyms: battlefield, battleground, field of battle |
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Related Words: Armageddon, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract |
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(noun) a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field" |
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Synonyms: athletic field, playing area, playing field |
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Related Words: arena, ball field, bowling green, court, diamond, football field, gridiron, parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, scene of action, tract |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: branch of knowledge, discipline, field of study, study, subject, subject area, subject field |
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Related Words: allometry, applied science, architecture, arts, bibliotics, divinity, engineering, engineering science, frontier, humanistic discipline, humanities, knowledge base, knowledge domain, liberal arts, military science, ology, science, scientific discipline, technology, theology |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: area, arena, domain, orbit, sphere |
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Related Words: distaff, environment, front, kingdom, land, lap, political arena, political sphere, preserve, province, realm, responsibility |
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