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What is the noun for field?

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field
  1. a land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country
    1. the open country near or belonging to a town or city (usually used in plural)
  2. a wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals
    1. (geology) a region containing a particular mineral
  3. a place where competitive matches are carried out
    1. a place where a battle is fought; a battlefield
    2. an area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force
    3. a place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game
    4. a competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals
    5. (metonymy) all of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting
  4. various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors
    1. a physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region
    2. structures serving cognition
    3. a physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “We'll forget the sun, in his jealous sky, as we lie in a field of gold.”
      “The travelers and townsmen had begun walking as soon as they heard the chatter of the drums in the festival field.”
      “There were many talented and skillful athletes on the field.”
fielder
  1. (cricket) A player of the fielding side, whose task is to gather the ball after the batsman has hit it, to catch the batsman out, or to prevent him from scoring.
  2. (baseball, softball) A defensive player in the field.
  3. A dog trained in pursuit of game in the field.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Bob Bartum then pinch-hit for center fielder Don Landrum and hit a sacrifice fly to bring home the winning run.”
      “A hard-hitting right hander and an off-spinner, he has another string to his bow, being a very good fielder.”
      “Credit the batter with a double, an assist to the right fielder and a putout to the shortstop.”
fieldwork
  1. (uncountable) work done out in the real world rather than in controlled conditions
  2. (in scientific research) The collection of raw data in the field.
  3. (countable) A temporary fortification built by troops in the field.
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  5. Examples:
    1. “He recently conducted fieldwork in the Western Desert of Egypt and in Tunisia.”
      “I conducted extensive fieldwork to study the behavior of wild dolphins in their natural habitat, an experience that provided valuable insights beyond controlled laboratory settings.”
      “Research projects, fieldwork, and dietetic rotations in ethnic communities would be helpful.”
fieldman
  1. (now rare) A farmer, an agricultural labourer. [from 15th c.]
  2. (cricket) A fielder. [from 18th c.]
  3. An employee who works in the field rather than at at office; a field agent. [from 19th c.]
fieldling
  1. (rare) A dweller or inhabitant of the fields; countryman; farmer.
fieldlore
  1. Knowledge or skill gained in the fields; knowledge of rural pursuits.
fieldnote
  1. (plural) A note taken while working "in the field", i.e. in a real-world situation.
fieldstone
  1. A stone found in fields and used for building.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The fieldstone fireplace and comfortable furnishings help everyone feel welcome relaxed.”
      “A 1970's-style breezeway became a family room, with a warming Connecticut fieldstone fireplace and barn wood paneling.”
      “Walls of dry-stacked Sonoma fieldstone hold back the slope and define the edge of the patio.”
fieldsite
  1. A site where fieldwork is carried out.
fieldfolk
  1. labourers who work in the fields
fieldscape
  1. A landscape made up of fields.
fielding
  1. The action of the verb field.
fieldworker
  1. A person who does fieldwork.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “A fieldworker can learn more from perturbing the system than from pretending to be an invisible fly on the wall.”
      “His father took a job as a fieldworker, and his mother picked cotton in the day and swept lumber shacks at night.”
      “She became a fieldworker for the Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts in the 1940s and was later its executive secretary.”
fieldsman
  1. (cricket, chiefly Australia, dated in Britain) fielder
  2. Examples:
    1. “A batsman tries to stop the fieldsman from getting the ball by getting in his way.”
      “Mr Taylforth, who is fieldsman for the scheme, will then go and select a lamb from the member farms to fulfil the order.”
      “Reserve placing in the native breeds went to Mule Wether lamb entries from Andrew Fisher of Pateley Bridge, a fieldsman for Craven Cattle Marts.”
fieldworkers
fieldstones
  1. plural of fieldstone
fieldscapes
  1. plural of fieldscape
fieldsmen
  1. plural of fieldsman
  2. Examples:
    1. “If anything, he should have directed his ire at the umpires, who are required to regulate the comings and goings of fieldsmen.”
      “I can't describe it explicitly without pictures, but suffice it to say that there are definite positions for fieldsmen in cricket.”
      “The batsmen then keep hitting it down the throats of the ready set fieldsmen.”
fieldlings
  1. plural of fieldling
fieldnotes
  1. plural of fieldnote
  2. Examples:
    1. “The language of learning was the second subcategory for analysis of the fieldnotes.”
      “Wherever we went, I dragged the boxes of fieldnotes and files with me, my own emotional excess baggage.”
fieldsites
  1. plural of fieldsite
fieldworks
fieldmen
  1. plural of fieldman
fielders
fields
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