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# field

«field» in Mova's school dictionary: **a big open piece of land, often with grass or crops** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (field, fields); verb (field, fields, fielded — to catch the ball in cricket or baseball)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A field is a big open piece of land, often with grass or crops. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#m1)

2) A field is a place for playing sports, like a football field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#m2)

3) A field is a subject or area of work, like the field of science. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#m3)

4) To field is to catch or stop the ball in cricket or baseball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

maths: an area or a shape with length and width; perimeter (fence around: add the sides) or area (grass, crops inside: length × width); rows of crops; science: field trips, studying plants in a field; everyday life: playing fields, sports day; phrases: «field trip», «a level playing field»

### examples

- The field is 60 m long and 40 m wide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#x1)
- How long is the fence around the field? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#x2)
- Each field has 30 rows of corn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#x3)
- The football field is 100 yards long. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#x4)
- Cows are eating grass in the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#x5)
- Our class went on a field trip. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#x6)
- She works in the field of medicine. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#x7)
- He fielded the ball and threw it back. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/#x8)

### note

Fencing around = perimeter (add sides); covering = area (length × width). Trap: decide whether the problem asks around or inside. Spelling: «i before e»: f-i-e-l-d.

### In the corpora

- [The common pheasant in British fields was brought from Asia long ago for hunting.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/93-the-aviary-the-walk-through-tropical-house/10/)
- [Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/141-zootopia-real-foxes-and-rabbits/16/)
- [In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/149-myth-check-are-elephants-scared-of-mice/5/)
- [Gulls follow a tractor ploughing a field, because ploughing turns up worms and grubs.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/223-gulls-chip-thieves-rain-dances-and-salty-water/12/)
- [Beaver dams slow floods, clean water and make ponds full of life, though some farmers worry about flooded fields.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/283-wolves-in-yellowstone-beavers-in-britain-and-bringing-nature-back/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «field» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/field/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.