Word Finder - fields

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

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There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.

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A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.

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A crop circle was made in a corn field.

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A place where competitive matches are carried out.

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Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.

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

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

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The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.

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To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.

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The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.

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To answer; to address.

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She will field questions immediately after her presentation.

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To defeat.

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They fielded a fearsome army.

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To execute research (in the field).

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He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.

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To deploy in the field.

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to field a new land-mine detector

I can see plenty of nice gardens and fields down below us, at the edge of this city.

The desert and lava fields behind them, they made good time.

We asked about buildings; there were none, only corn in the four fields separated by the cross roads.

She kept the doors locked and pulled Brutus in from the fields to walk with them when they did chores.

Of late years many experiments have been made on the influence of electric fields or currents on plant growth.

It was a year in which all agriculture was remitted, in which the fields lay unsown and the vines grew unpruned, only the spontaneous yield of the land might be gathered.

There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

The camping facilities were secondary to the main park functions, multiple ball fields, tennis courts and twenty-four horse shoe pits, for the serious pitcher.

The strongest magnetic fields employed for experimental purposes are obtained by the use of electromagnets.

These fields are about to explode with innovation and advancement.

Not till the 13th of February were the miserable remnants of the population permitted to rebuild their houses and cultivate their fields once more.

The output is to-day relatively small in comparison with that of many other fields, but there are one or two permanent gold mines of great value working low-grade ore.

A considerable number of men are engaged in the various states on alluvial fields, in hydraulic sluicing, and dredging is now adopted for the winning of gold in river deposits.

The fields of New South Wales have proved to be of immense value, the yield of silver and lead during 1905 being £2,500,000, and the total output to the end of the year named over £40,000,000.

Although indications of silver abound in all the other states, no fields of great importance have yet been discovered.

The returns from the copper fields in the state are at present a little over half a million sterling per annum, and would be still greater if it were not for the lack of suitable fuel for smelting purposes, which renders the economical treatment of the ore difficult; the development of the mines is also retarded by the want of easy and cheaper communication with the coast.

The yield of tin in Victoria is very small, and until lately no fields of importance have been discovered; but towards the latter end of 1890 extensive deposits were reported to exist in the Gippsland district - at Omeo and Tarwin.

Iron is distributed throughout Australia, but for want of capital for developing the fields this industry has not progressed.

The most extensive fields are in the Mittagong, Wallerawang and Rylstone districts, which are roughly estimated to contain in the aggregate 12,944,000 tons of ore, containing 5,853,000 tons of metallic iron.

In Queensland the fields were all showing development in 1891, when the output exhibited a very large increase compared with that of former years; but, as in the case of Victoria, the production of the metal seems to have ceased.

The establishment of the gold fields caused many people to move West.

Battersea Fields, bordering the river, were formerly a favourite resort, so that the park also perpetuates a memory.

Minerals remained for the most part unworked, though the profitable coal fields and oil wells in Ferghana were used when disturbances in Trans-Caspia cut Turkestan off from the Baku oil, on which it relies entirely for its industrial life.

It has large coal mines, which form the south-western portion of the extensive Upper Silesian coal fields, the largest Austrian deposit.

The Royalist cavalry was disorganized by victory as often as by defeat, and illustrated on numerous fields the now discredited maxim that cavalry cannot charge twice in one day.

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The Phlegraean Fields embrace all the country round Baiae and Pozzuoli and the adjoining islands.

The sugar-cane flourishes, the cotton-plant ripens to perfection, date-trees are seen in the gardens, the rocks are clothed with the prickly-pear or Indian fig, the enclosures of the fields are formed by aloes and sometimes pomegranates, the liquorice-root grows wild, and the mastic, the myrtle and many varieties of oleander and cistus form the underwood of the natural forests of arbutus and evergreen oak.

The fields of Tuscany for the most part bear wheat one year and maize the next, in perpetual interchanges, relieved to some extent by green crops.

Battles became all but bloodless; diplomacy and tactics superseded feats of arms and hard blows in pitched fields.

Life and Letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe, edited by Annie Fields (Boston, 1898).

A great deal of work still remains to be done in this department, which at the present time affords one of the most promising fields of anatomical investigation.

Experience with epidemics, dearly bought in the past, has shown that one fruitful cause is the laying open to the inroads of some Fungus or insect, hitherto leading a quiet endemic life in the fields and forests, large tracts of its special food, along which it may range rampant without check to its dispersal, nutrition and reproduction.

No measures had been taken to supply these voluntary crusaders with food or clothing; as harvest-time approached, the landlords commanded them to return to reap the fields, and on their refusing to do so, proceeded to maltreat their wives and families and set their armed retainers upon the half-starved multitudes.

Though feeding largely on worms and insects they ravage gardens and fields, on which account they are detested by the colonists.

Natural gas is piped to Frostburg from the West Virginia fields, 120 m.

If Britain and Sicily were the greatest fields of their enterprise, they were very far from being the only fields.

The circumstances of his settlement in his two great fields of conquest were widely different; his position when he was fully established in his two insular realms was widely different; but the end has been the same in both cases.

One good feature of the Russian primary school system, however, is that in many villages there are school gardens or fields; in nearly moo schools, bee-keeping, and in 300 silkworm culture is taught; while in some 900 schools the children receive instruction in various trades; and in 300 schools in slojd (a system of manual training originated in Finland).

Out of these have grown large factories, employing as many as 10,000 to 12,000 men each; but when harvest comes round, these men leave the factories and repair to their fields, and meantime the factories stand still for two or three months.

The remains were dismembered and carried to the fields, excepting the portion offered to the earth goddess, which was buried.

The Pawnees, however, had an elaborate ritual, in which a human victim was sacrificed to the Morning Star; the blood of the victims was sprinkled on the fields, and the details of the rite are not unlike those of the Khond custom.

Charles's ambition aimed at wider fields, and when Margaret, countess of Flanders, asked help of the French court against the German king William of Holland, by whom she had been defeated, he gladly accepted her offer of the county of; Hainaut in exchange for his assistance (1253); this arrangement was, however, rescinded by Louis of France, who returned from captivity in 1254, and Charles gave up Hainaut for an immense sum of money.

Semitic tribes wandered northwards from their home in Arabia to seek sustenance in its more fertile fields, to plunder, or to escape the pressure of tribes in the rear.

The study of the clan-group as an organization is as instructive here as in other fields.

The true nature of this relation can be readily observed in other fields (ancient Britain, Greece, Egypt, &c.), where, however, the native documents and sources have not that complexity which characterizes the composite biblical history.

In Elephantine, as in Nippur, the legal usages show that similar elements of Babylonio-Assyrian culture prevailed, and the evidence from two such widely separated fields is instructive for conditions in Palestine itself.3 20.

His miracles were reported and eagerly believed everywhere; " from Poland, Hamburg and Amsterdam treasures poured into his court; in the Levant young men and maidens prophesied before him; the Persian Jews refused to till the fields.

In all these fields they have achieved prominence.

The dry season lasts from October to May, the hottest months appear to be in March and April, when the heat is increased by the burning of the corn and henequen fields.