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Field

A broad, level, open expanse of land.

Plane

(Mathematics) A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.

Field

A meadow
Cows grazing in a field.

Plane

A flat or level surface.

Field

A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop
A field of corn.
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Plane

A level of development, existence, or achievement
Scholarship on a high plane.

Field

A portion of land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource
A copper field.

Plane

An airplane or hydroplane.

Field

A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice.

Plane

A supporting surface of an airplane; an airfoil or wing.
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Field

A battleground.

Plane

A carpenter's tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood.

Field

(Archaic) A battle.

Plane

A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.

Field

The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers
Officers in the field.

Plane

The plane tree.

Field

A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin
A blue insignia on a field of red.

Plane

(Mathematics) Of or being a figure lying in a plane
A plane curve.

Field

(Heraldry) The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background.

Plane

Flat; level.

Field

An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory
Biologists working in the field.
A product tested in the field.

Plane

To smooth or finish with a plane
Planed the door.

Field

An area or region where business activities are conducted
Sales representatives in the field.

Plane

To remove with a plane
Plane off the rough edges on a board.

Field

An area in which an athletic event takes place, especially the area inside or near to a running track, where field events are held.

Plane

To work with a plane.

Field

In baseball, the positions on defense or the ability to play defense
She excels in the field.

Plane

To rise partly out of the water, as a hydroplane does at high speeds.

Field

In baseball, one of the three sections of the outfield
He can hit to any field.

Plane

To soar or glide.

Field

A range, area, or subject of human activity, interest, or knowledge
Several fields of endeavor.

Plane

To travel by airplane.

Field

The contestants or participants in a competition or athletic event, especially those other than the favorite or winner.

Plane

Of a surface: flat or level.

Field

The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.

Plane

A level or flat surface.

Field

The people running in an election for a political office
The field has been reduced to three candidates.

Plane

(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). Category:en:Surfaces

Field

(Mathematics) A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition, that the set is a group under addition, and that the elements with the exception of the additive identity form a group under multiplication.

Plane

(anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.

Field

(Physics) A physical quantity in a region of space, such as gravitational force or fluid pressure, having a distinct value (scalar, vector, or tensor) at each point.

Plane

A level of existence or development.
Astral plane

Field

The usually circular area in which the image is rendered by the lens system of an optical instrument; field of view.

Plane

A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. (Compare airfoil, hydrofoil.)}}

Field

An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.

Plane

Any of 17 designated ranges of 216 (65,536) sequential code points each.

Field

A space, as on an online form or request for information, that accepts the input of text
An address field.

Plane

A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

Field

Growing, cultivated, or living in fields or open land.

Plane

An airplane; an aeroplane.

Field

Made, used, or carried on in the field
Field operations.

Plane

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.

Field

Working, operating, or active in the field
Field representatives of a firm.

Plane

(entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

Field

(Sports) To catch or pick up (a ball) and often make a throw to another player, especially in baseball.

Plane

(countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.

Field

To respond to or deal with
Fielded tough questions from the press.

Plane

(Northern UK) A sycamore.

Field

(Sports) To place in the playing area
Field a team.

Plane

To smooth (wood) with a plane.

Field

To nominate in an election
Field a candidate.

Plane

To move in a way that lifts the bow out of the water.

Field

To put into action; deploy
Field an army of campaign workers.

Plane

To glide or soar.

Field

To enter (data) into a field.

Plane

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

Field

To play as a fielder
How well can he field?.

Plane

A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.

Field

A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.

Plane

An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.

Field

The open country near or belonging to a town or city.

Plane

A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.

Field

A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
There were some cows grazing in a field.
A crop circle was made in a corn field.

Plane

A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.

Field

(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
An oil field; a gold field

Plane

Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.

Field

An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.

Plane

To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.

Field

A place where competitive matches are carried out.

Plane

To efface or remove.
He planed away the names . . . written on his tables.

Field

A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

Plane

Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.
What student came but that you planed her path.

Field

An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
Soccer field
Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.

Plane

Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.

Field

A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.

Plane

An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets;
The flight was delayed due to trouble with the airplane

Field

A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.

Plane

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape;
We will refer to the plane of the graph as the X-Y plane
Any line joining two points on a plane lies wholly on that plane

Field

(metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.

Plane

A level of existence or development;
He lived on a worldly plane

Field

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

Plane

A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

Field

(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.
Magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field

Plane

A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood;
The cabinetmaker used a plane for the finish work

Field

Any of certain structures serving cognition.

Plane

Cut or remove with or as if with a plane;
The machine shaved off fine layers from the piece of wood

Field

A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.

Plane

Travel on the surface of water

Field

Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal

Plane

Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane;
Plane the top of the door

Field

To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.

Plane

Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another;
A flat desk
Acres of level farmland
A plane surface

Field

To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.

Field

To place a team, its players, etc. in a game.
The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.

Field

(transitive) To answer; to address.
She will field questions immediately after her presentation.

Field

(transitive) To defeat.
They fielded a fearsome army.

Field

(transitive) To execute research (in the field).
He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.

Field

To deploy in the field.
To field a new land-mine detector

Field

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

Field

A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
Fields which promise corn and wine.

Field

A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
In this glorious and well-foughten field.
What though the field be lost?

Field

An open space; an extent; an expanse.
Without covering, save yon field of stars.
Ask of yonder argent fields above.

Field

The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).

Field

An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
Afforded a clear field for moral experiments.

Field

A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.

Field

That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; - called also outfield.

Field

To take the field.

Field

To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.

Field

To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.

Field

A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed;
He planted a field of wheat

Field

A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought;
They made a tour of Civil War battlefields

Field

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

Field

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

Field

The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

Field

A particular kind of commercial enterprise;
They are outstanding in their field

Field

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

Field

A piece of land prepared for playing a game;
The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field

Field

Extensive tract of level open land;
They emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
He longed for the fields of his youth

Field

(mathematics) 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

Field

A region in which active military operations are in progress;
The army was in the field awaiting action
He served in the Vietnam theater for three years

Field

All of the horses in a particular horse race

Field

All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

Field

A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found;
The diamond fields of South Africa

Field

(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

Field

The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

Field

A place where planes take off and land

Field

Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

Field

Play as a fielder

Field

Answer adequately or successfully;
The lawyer fielded all questions from the press

Field

Select (a team or individual player) for a game;
The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl

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