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(land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country) A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.

(in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.

(wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals) A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.

(geology: region containing a particular mineral)(geology) 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.

(place where a battle is fought) A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

(sports: area reserved for playing a game) An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.

# (obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the ''bat'').

# (baseball) 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.

(metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

{{n-g|Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.}}

(physics: region affected by a particular force) (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.

{{n-g|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''.

# (course of study or domain of knowledge or practice) A domain of study, knowledge or practice.

# An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.

# (in mathematics)(algebra) 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.

# (heraldry: background of the shield)(heraldry) The background of the shield.

# (vexillology: background of the flag)(vexillology) The background of the flag.

# (numismatics) 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.

# (computing: area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value)(object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.

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

(cricket) (fielder).

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

(and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.

(sports) To place {{q|a team, its players, etc.}} in a game.

To answer; to address.

To execute research (in the field).

(military) To deploy in the field.