an expanse of open or cleared ground, esp. a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
2.
Sports.
a.
a piece of ground devoted to sports or contests; playing field.
b.
(in betting) all the contestants or numbers that are grouped together as one: to bet on the field in a horse race.
c.
(in football) the players on the playing ground.
d.
the area in which field events are held.
3.
Baseball.
a.
the team in the field, as opposed to the one at bat.
b.
the outfield.
4.
a sphere of activity, interest, etc., esp. within a particular business or profession: the field of teaching; the field of Shakespearean scholarship.
5.
the area or region drawn on or serviced by a business or profession; outlying areas where business activities or operations are carried on, as opposed to a home or branch office: our representatives in the field.
6.
a job location remote from regular workshop facilities, offices, or the like.
7.
Military.
a.
the scene or area of active military operations.
b.
a battleground.
c.
a battle.
d.
Informal. an area located away from the headquarters of a commander.
8.
an expanse of anything: a field of ice.
9.
any region characterized by a particular feature, resource, activity, etc.: a gold field.
10.
the surface of a canvas, shield, etc., on which something is portrayed: a gold star on a field of blue.
11.
(in a flag) the ground of each division.
12.
Physics. the influence of some agent, as electricity or gravitation, considered as existing at all points in space and defined by the force it would exert on an object placed at any point in space. Compare electric field, gravitational field, magnetic field.
13.
Also called field of view.Optics. the entire angular expanse visible through an optical instrument at a given time.
14.
Electricity. the structure in a generator or motor that produces a magnetic field around a rotating armature.
15.
Mathematics. a number system that has the same properties relative to the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as the number system of all real numbers; a commutative division ring.
16.
Photography. the area of a subject that is taken in by a lens at a particular diaphragm opening.
17.
Psychology. the total complex of interdependent factors within which a psychological event occurs and is perceived as occurring.
18.
Computers.
a.
one or more related characters treated as a unit and constituting part of a record, for purposes of input, processing, output, or storage by a computer: If the hours-worked field is blank or zero, the program does not write a check for that employee.
b.
(in a punch card) any number of columns regularly used for recording the same information.
19.
Television. one half of the scanning lines required to form a complete television frame. In the U.S., two fields are displayed in 1/30 second: all the odd-numbered lines in one field and all the even lines in the next field. Compare frame(def. 9).
20.
Numismatics. the blank area of a coin, other than that of the exergue.
21.
Fox Hunting. the group of participants in a hunt, exclusive of the master of foxhounds and his staff.
22.
Heraldry. the whole area or background of an escutcheon.
–verb (used with object)
23.
Baseball,Cricket.
a.
to catch or pick up (the ball) in play: The shortstop fielded the grounder and threw to first for the out.
b.
to place (a player, group of players, or a team) in the field to play.
24.
to place in competition: to field a candidate for governor.
25.
to answer or reply skillfully: to field a difficult question.
26.
to put into action or on duty: to field police cars to patrol an area.
of, taking place, or competed for on the field and not on the track, as the discus throw or shot put.
b.
of or pertaining to field events.
31.
Military. of or pertaining to campaign and active combat service as distinguished from service in rear areas or at headquarters: a field soldier.
32.
of or pertaining to a field.
33.
grown or cultivated in a field.
34.
working in the fields of a farm: field laborers.
35.
working as a salesperson, engineer, representative, etc., in the field: an insurance company's field agents.
—Idioms
36.
in the field,
a.
in actual use or in a situation simulating actual use or application; away from a laboratory, workshop, or the like: The machine was tested for six months in the field.
b.
in contact with a prime source of basic data: The anthropologist is working in the field in Nigeria.
c.
within a given profession: The public knows little of him, but in the field he's known as a fine mathematician.
37.
keep the field, to remain in competition or in battle; continue to contend: The troops kept the field under heavy fire.
A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop: a field of corn.
A portion of land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource.
A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice.
A battleground.
A battle.
The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers.
A military area away from headquarters.
A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin: a blue insignia on a field of red.
Heraldry The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background.
An area in which an athletic event takes place, especially the area inside or near to a running track, where field events are held.
The portion of a playing field having specific dimensions on which the action of a game takes place.
All the contestants or participants in an event, especially all the contestants except the favorite or the winner in a contest of more than two.
The members of a team engaged in active play.
The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.
An area of human activity or interest: several fields of endeavor.
A topic, subject, or area of academic interest or specialization.
Profession, employment, or business.
An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory: biologists working in the field; a product tested in the field.
An area or region where business activities are conducted: sales representatives in the field.
A defined area of a storage medium, such as a set of bit locations or a set of adjacent columns on a punch card, used to record a type of information consistently.
An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.
An interface element in a GUI that accepts the input of text.
A battleground.
A battle.
The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers.
A military area away from headquarters.
A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin: a blue insignia on a field of red.
Heraldry The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background.
An area in which an athletic event takes place, especially the area inside or near to a running track, where field events are held.
The portion of a playing field having specific dimensions on which the action of a game takes place.
All the contestants or participants in an event, especially all the contestants except the favorite or the winner in a contest of more than two.
The members of a team engaged in active play.
The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.
An area of human activity or interest: several fields of endeavor.
A topic, subject, or area of academic interest or specialization.
Profession, employment, or business.
An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory: biologists working in the field; a product tested in the field.
An area or region where business activities are conducted: sales representatives in the field.
A defined area of a storage medium, such as a set of bit locations or a set of adjacent columns on a punch card, used to record a type of information consistently.
An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.
An interface element in a GUI that accepts the input of text.
A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin: a blue insignia on a field of red.
Heraldry The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background.
An area in which an athletic event takes place, especially the area inside or near to a running track, where field events are held.
The portion of a playing field having specific dimensions on which the action of a game takes place.
All the contestants or participants in an event, especially all the contestants except the favorite or the winner in a contest of more than two.
The members of a team engaged in active play.
The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.
An area of human activity or interest: several fields of endeavor.
A topic, subject, or area of academic interest or specialization.
Profession, employment, or business.
An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory: biologists working in the field; a product tested in the field.
An area or region where business activities are conducted: sales representatives in the field.
A defined area of a storage medium, such as a set of bit locations or a set of adjacent columns on a punch card, used to record a type of information consistently.
An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.
An interface element in a GUI that accepts the input of text.
Sports
An area in which an athletic event takes place, especially the area inside or near to a running track, where field events are held.
The portion of a playing field having specific dimensions on which the action of a game takes place.
All the contestants or participants in an event, especially all the contestants except the favorite or the winner in a contest of more than two.
The members of a team engaged in active play.
The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.
An area of human activity or interest: several fields of endeavor.
A topic, subject, or area of academic interest or specialization.
Profession, employment, or business.
An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory: biologists working in the field; a product tested in the field.
An area or region where business activities are conducted: sales representatives in the field.
A defined area of a storage medium, such as a set of bit locations or a set of adjacent columns on a punch card, used to record a type of information consistently.
An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.
An interface element in a GUI that accepts the input of text.
An area of human activity or interest: several fields of endeavor.
A topic, subject, or area of academic interest or specialization.
Profession, employment, or business.
An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory: biologists working in the field; a product tested in the field.
An area or region where business activities are conducted: sales representatives in the field.
A defined area of a storage medium, such as a set of bit locations or a set of adjacent columns on a punch card, used to record a type of information consistently.
An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.
An interface element in a GUI that accepts the input of text.
Mathematics A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition, that the set is a group under addition, and that the elements with the exception of the additive identity form a group under multiplication.
Physics A region of space characterized by a physical property, such as gravitational or electromagnetic force or fluid pressure, having a determinable value at every point in the region.
The usually circular area in which the image is rendered by the lens system of an optical instrument. Also called field of view.
Computer Science
A defined area of a storage medium, such as a set of bit locations or a set of adjacent columns on a punch card, used to record a type of information consistently.
An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.
An interface element in a GUI that accepts the input of text.
adj.
Growing, cultivated, or living in fields or open land.
Made, used, or carried on in the field: field operations.
Working, operating, or active in the field: field representatives of a firm.
v.
field·ed, field·ing, fields
v.
tr.
Sports
To retrieve (a ball) and perform the required maneuver, especially in baseball.
To place in the field to play: field a team.
To place in competition.
To put into action: field an army of campaign workers.
To respond to: fielded tough questions from the press.
To place in competition.
To put into action: field an army of campaign workers.
Computer Science To enter (data) into a field.
v.
intr.Sports
To play as a fielder.
[Middle English, from Old English feld; see pelə-2 in Indo-European roots.]
Synonyms: These nouns denote an area of activity, thought, study, or interest: the field of comparative literature; considers marketing to be her bailiwick; the domain of physics; the province of politics; the realm of constitutional law; a task within his assistant's sphere; the territory of historical research.
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American merchant and financier who planned and oversaw the laying of the transatlantic telegraph cable (completed 1866).
Field, Marshall 1834-1906.
American merchant who organized Marshall Field and Company, the largest wholesale and retail dry goods establishment of the late 1800s.
O.E. feld "plain, open land" (as opposed to woodland), also "a parcel of land marked off and used for pasture or tillage," probably related to O.E. folde "earth, land," from P.Gmc. *felthuz "flat land," from PIE *pel(e)-tu-, from base *pele- "flat, to spread" (cf. L. planus "flat, level," O.C.S. polje "field;" see plane (1)). Common W.Gmc. (cf. O.Fris. feld, M.H.G. velt, Ger. Feld), but not found outside it (Sw. fält, Dan. felt are borrowed from Ger.), though Finnish pelto "field" is believed to have been adapted from P.Gmc. The Eng. spelling with -ie- is probably the work of Anglo-Fr. scribes. The verb meaning "to go out to fight" is 16c., from the n. in the sense of "battlefield" (c.1300). Collective use for "all engaged in a sport" (or, in horseracing, all but the favorite) is 1742; play the field "avoid commitment" (1936) is from notion of gamblers betting on other horses than the favorite. The verb meaning "to stop and return the ball" is first recorded 1823, originally in cricket; figurative sense is from 1902. Field day (1747) was originally a day of military exercise and review; fig. sense is from 1827.
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"
2.
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields" [syn: battlefield]
3.
somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected; "anthropologists do much of their work in the field"
4.
a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" [syn: discipline]
5.
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
6.
a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field"
7.
a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" [syn: sphere]
8.
a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field" [syn: playing field]
9.
extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" [syn: plain]
10.
(mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; "the set of all rational numbers is a field"
11.
a region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years"
12.
all of the horses in a particular horse race
13.
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
14.
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa"
15.
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
16.
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
17.
a place where planes take off and land [syn: airfield]
verb
1.
catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
2.
play as a fielder
3.
answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press"
4.
select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl"
A distribution in a region of space of the strength and direction of a force, such as the electrostatic force near an electrically charged object, that would act on a body at any given point in that region. See also electric field, magnetic field.
The region whose image is visible to the eye or accessible to an optical instrument.
A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition, that the set is a group under addition, and that the elements with the exception of the additive identity (0) form a group under multiplication. The set of all rational numbers is a field.
In a database, a space for a single item of information contained in a record.
An interface element in a graphical user interface that accepts the input of text.
fielddata, database An area of a databaserecord, or graphical user interfaceform, into which a particular item of data is entered. Example usage: "The telephone number field is not really a numerical field", "Why do we need a four-digit field for the year?". A databasecolumn is the set of all instances of a given field from all records in a table. (1999-04-26)
Paine Field-Lake Stickney, WA (CDP, FIPS 52765) Location: 47.88705 N, 122.26237 W Population (1990): 18670 (8656 housing units) Area: 20.0 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water)
Bettles Field, AK Zip code(s): 99726
Brookley Field, AL Zip code(s): 36615
Moffett Field, CA Zip code(s): 94035
Napier Field, AL (town, FIPS 53256) Location: 31.31511 N, 85.45531 W Population (1990): 462 (215 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 36303
Ault Field, WA (CDP, FIPS 3215) Location: 48.33711 N, 122.67616 W Population (1990): 3795 (321 housing units) Area: 17.8 sq km (land), 9.1 sq km (water)
Old Field, NY (village, FIPS 54617) Location: 40.96227 N, 73.13077 W Population (1990): 765 (325 housing units) Area: 5.3 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water)
Es*cutch"eon\, n. [OF. escusson, F. ['e]cusson, from OF. escu shield, F. ['e]cu. See Esquire, Scutcheon.]1. (Her.) The surface, usually a shield, upon which bearings are marshaled and displayed. The surface of the escutcheon is called the field, the upper part is called the chief, and the lower part the base (see Chiff, and Field.). That side of the escutcheon which is on the right hand of the knight who bears the shield on his arm is called dexter, and the other side sinister. Note: The two sides of an escutcheon are respectively designated as dexter and sinister, as in the cut, and the different parts or points by the following names: A, Dexter chief point; B, Middle chief point; C, Sinister chief point; D, Honor or color point; E, Fesse or heart point; F, Nombrill or navel point; G, Dexter base point; H, Middle base point; I, base point. 2. A marking upon the back of a cow's udder and the space above it (the perineum), formed by the hair growing upward or outward instead of downward. It is esteemed an index of milking qualities. --C. L. Flint. 3. (Naut.) That part of a vessel's stern on which her name is written. --R. H. Dane, Jr. 4. (Carp.) A thin metal plate or shield to protect wood, or for ornament, as the shield around a keyhole. 5. (Zo["o]l.) The depression behind the beak of certain bivalves; the ligamental area. Escutcheon of pretense, an escutcheon used in English heraldry to display the arms of the bearer's wife; -- not commonly used unless she an heiress. Cf. Impalement.
Field\, n. [OE. feld, fild, AS. feld; akin to D. veld, G. feld, Sw. f["a]lt, Dan. felt, Icel. fold field of grass, AS. folde earth, land, ground, OS. folda.]1. Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country. 2. A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture. Fields which promise corn and wine. --Byron. 3. A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself. In this glorious and well-foughten field. --Shak. What though the field be lost? --Milton. 4. An open space; an extent; an expanse. Esp.: (a) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected. (b) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. Without covering, save yon field of stars. --Shak. Ask of yonder argent fields above. --Pope. 5. (Her.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver). 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room. Afforded a clear field for moral experiments. --Macaulay. 7. A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting. 8. (Baseball) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield. Note: Field is often used adjectively in the sense of belonging to, or used in, the fields; especially with reference to the operations and equipments of an army during a campaign away from permanent camps and fortifications. In most cases such use of the word is sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. A field geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes investigations or collections out of doors. A survey uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e., measurment, observations, etc., made in field work (outdoor operations). A farmer or planter employs field hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick. Field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc. Coal field (Geol.) See under Coal. Field artillery, light ordnance mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army. Field basil (Bot.), a plant of the Mint family (Calamintha Acinos); -- called also basil thyme. Field colors (Mil.), small flags for marking out the positions for squadrons and battalions; camp colors. Field cricket (Zo["o]l.), a large European cricket (Gryllus campestric), remarkable for its loud notes. Field day. (a) A day in the fields. (b) (Mil.) A day when troops are taken into the field for instruction in evolutions. --Farrow. (c) A day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day. Field driver, in New England, an officer charged with the driving of stray cattle to the pound. Field duck (Zo["o]l.), the little bustard (Otis tetrax), found in Southern Europe. Field glass. (Optics) (a) A binocular telescope of compact form; a lorgnette; a race glass. (b) A small achromatic telescope, from 20 to 24 inches long, and having 3 to 6 draws. (c) See Field lens. Field lark. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The skylark. (b) The tree pipit. Field lens (Optics), that one of the two lenses forming the eyepiece of an astronomical telescope or compound microscope which is nearer the object glass; -- called also field glass. Field madder (Bot.), a plant (Sherardia arvensis) used in dyeing. Field marshal (Mil.), the highest military rank conferred in the British and other European armies. Field mouse (Zo["o]l.), a mouse inhabiting fields, as the campagnol and the deer mouse. See Campagnol, and Deer mouse. Field officer (Mil.), an officer above the rank of captain and below that of general. Field officer's court (U.S.Army), a court-martial consisting of one field officer empowered to try all cases, in time of war, subject to jurisdiction of garrison and regimental courts. --Farrow. Field plover (Zo["o]l.), the black-bellied plover (Charadrius squatarola); also sometimes applied to the Bartramian sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda). Field spaniel (Zo["o]l.), a small spaniel used in hunting small game. Field sparrow. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small American sparrow (Spizella pusilla). (b) The hedge sparrow. [Eng.] Field staff> (Mil.), a staff formerly used by gunners to hold a lighted match for discharging a gun. Field vole (Zo["o]l.), the European meadow mouse. Field of ice, a large body of floating ice; a pack. Field, or Field of view, in a telescope or microscope, the entire space within which objects are seen. Field magnet. see under Magnet. Magnetic field. See Magnetic. To back the field, or To bet on the field. See under Back, v. t. -- To keep the field. (a) (Mil.) To continue a campaign. (b) To maintain one's ground against all comers. Tolay, or back, against the field, to bet on (a horse, etc.) against all comers. To take the field (Mil.), to enter upon a campaign.
Field\, n. [OE. feld, fild, AS. feld; akin to D. veld, G. feld, Sw. f["a]lt, Dan. felt, Icel. fold field of grass, AS. folde earth, land, ground, OS. folda.]1. Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country. 2. A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture. Fields which promise corn and wine. --Byron. 3. A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself. In this glorious and well-foughten field. --Shak. What though the field be lost? --Milton. 4. An open space; an extent; an expanse. Esp.: (a) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected. (b) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view. Without covering, save yon field of stars. --Shak. Ask of yonder argent fields above. --Pope. 5. (Her.) The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver). 6. An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room. Afforded a clear field for moral experiments. --Macaulay. 7. A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting. 8. (Baseball) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield. Note: Field is often used adjectively in the sense of belonging to, or used in, the fields; especially with reference to the operations and equipments of an army during a campaign away from permanent camps and fortifications. In most cases such use of the word is sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. A field geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes investigations or collections out of doors. A survey uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e., measurment, observations, etc., made in field work (outdoor operations). A farmer or planter employs field hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick. Field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc. Coal field (Geol.) See under Coal. Field artillery, light ordnance mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army. Field basil (Bot.), a plant of the Mint family (Calamintha Acinos); -- called also basil thyme. Field colors (Mil.), small flags for marking out the positions for squadrons and battalions; camp colors. Field cricket (Zo["o]l.), a large European cricket (Gryllus campestric), remarkable for its loud notes. Field day. (a) A day in the fields. (b) (Mil.) A day when troops are taken into the field for instruction in evolutions. --Farrow. (c) A day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day. Field driver, in New England, an officer charged with the driving of stray cattle to the pound. Field duck (Zo["o]l.), the little bustard (Otis tetrax), found in Southern Europe. Field glass. (Optics) (a) A binocular telescope of compact form; a lorgnette; a race glass. (b) A small achromatic telescope, from 20 to 24 inches long, and having 3 to 6 draws. (c) See Field lens. Field lark. (Zo["o]l.) (a) The skylark. (b) The tree pipit. Field lens (Optics), that one of the two lenses forming the eyepiece of an astronomical telescope or compound microscope which is nearer the object glass; -- called also field glass. Field madder (Bot.), a plant (Sherardia arvensis) used in dyeing. Field marshal (Mil.), the highest military rank conferred in the British and other European armies. Field mouse (Zo["o]l.), a mouse inhabiting fields, as the campagnol and the deer mouse. See Campagnol, and Deer mouse. Field officer (Mil.), an officer above the rank of captain and below that of general. Field officer's court (U.S.Army), a court-martial consisting of one field officer empowered to try all cases, in time of war, subject to jurisdiction of garrison and regimental courts. --Farrow. Field plover (Zo["o]l.), the black-bellied plover (Charadrius squatarola); also sometimes applied to the Bartramian sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda). Field spaniel (Zo["o]l.), a small spaniel used in hunting small game. Field sparrow. (Zo["o]l.) (a) A small American sparrow (Spizella pusilla). (b) The hedge sparrow. [Eng.] Field staff> (Mil.), a staff formerly used by gunners to hold a lighted match for discharging a gun. Field vole (Zo["o]l.), the European meadow mouse. Field of ice, a large body of floating ice; a pack. Field, or Field of view, in a telescope or microscope, the entire space within which objects are seen. Field magnet. see under Magnet. Magnetic field. See Magnetic. To back the field, or To bet on the field. See under Back, v. t. -- To keep the field. (a) (Mil.) To continue a campaign. (b) To maintain one's ground against all comers. Tolay, or back, against the field, to bet on (a horse, etc.) against all comers. To take the field (Mil.), to enter upon a campaign.
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