field
field is a valid 5-letter word worth 9 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words with Friends.
What does field mean?
A branch of knowledge.
A region in which active military operations are in progress.
“the army was in the field awaiting action”
A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found.
“the diamond fields of South Africa”
All of the horses in a particular horse race.
All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event.
A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed.
“he planted a field of wheat”
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information.
(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”
A particular kind of commercial enterprise.
“they are outstanding in their 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”
The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument).
A particular environment or walk of life.
The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it.
A piece of land prepared for playing a game.
“the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field”
A place where planes take off and land.
Extensive tract of level open land.
“he longed for the fields of his youth”
A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought.
“they made a tour of Civil War battlefields”
Answer adequately or successfully.
“The lawyer fielded all questions from the press”
Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.
Play as a fielder.
Select (a team or individual player) for a game.
“The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl”