ˈɛə̯ɹɪə̯ ˈæɹ.i.ə əˈɹiːnə ˈbeɪ.lɪ.wɪk ˈbætəlˌɡɹaʊnd ˈtʃæmpeɪn ˈdɪ.sə.plɪn dəˈmeɪn doʊˈmeɪn fiːld fild fiːld fild ˈɔː.bɪt ˈɔɹ.bɪt sfɪə sfɪɹ ˈsʌb.dʒɛkt ˈθi(ə)tɚ ˈθiːə.tə ˈθiətə select (a team or individual player) for a game The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl answer adequately or successfully The lawyer fielded all questions from the press play as a fielder catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket a particular kind of commercial enterprise they are outstanding in their field a place where planes take off and land the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) 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 all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event all of the horses in a particular horse race (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 (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought they made a tour of Civil War battlefields 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 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 a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed he planted a field of wheat a piece of land prepared for playing a game the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found the diamond fields of South Africa extensive tract of level open land they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain he longed for the fields of his youth the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it 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