A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country. • The open country near or belonging to a town or city. • A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier. • When coupled with a number (e.g. two-field) used to define types of crop rotation, denoting the number of different crop types (and possibly fallow) that are used. • A region containing a particular mineral. • An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways. • A place where competitive matches are carried out. • A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield. • An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force. • The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat). • The outfield. • A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game. • A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals. • All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting. • Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. • 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. • Any of certain structures serving cognition. • The extent of a given perception. • A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory. • A domain of study, knowledge or practice. • An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement. • A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring. • A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols. • The background of the shield. • The background of the flag. • The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device. • A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data. • A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored. • An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls. • Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal. • Archaic form of fielder.