field
/ˈfi(ː)ld/ verb C2- To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it. · The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
- To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game. · The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
- To answer; to address. · She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
- To execute research (in the field). · He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.
- To deploy in the field. · to field a new land-mine detector
He/she/it fields · Past fielded · Past participle fielded · -ing form fielding
Verb forms
- Base form
- field
- He/she/it
- fields
- Past
- fielded
- Past participle
- fielded
- -ing form
- fielding
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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Barry’s back field and past Willowmere.
The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe crop, said, “The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors to help me with my harvest.” One of the young Larks heard his speech and related it to his mother, inquiring of her to what place they should move for safety.
“There is no occasion to move yet, my son,” she replied; “the man who only sends to his friends to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest.” The owner of the field came again a few days later and saw the wheat shedding the grain from excess of ripeness.
He said, “I will come myself tomorrow with my laborers, and with as many reapers as I can hire, and will get in the harvest.” The Lark on hearing these words said to her brood, “It is time now to be off, my little ones, for the man is in earnest this time; he no longer trusts his friends, but will reap the field himself.”
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