to field
- verb
- /fiːld/
- I field a very strong team.
- field a team
- field candidates
- enough to field
One's a for profit, one's a nonprofit trying to figure out how to field, you know, large scale systems in schools.
- One's a for profit, one's a nonprofit trying to figure out how to field, you know, large scale systems in schools.
- Occasionally they even fielded the boy's anti tank rifle, as seen during the making raid.
- Those tropes make no sense in an era where the DNC is fielding Joe Biden in his state of of disrepair.
- Some of this had to do with who the GOP was fielding and some of these races.
Examples
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Before the championship, the coach needed to field a strong team to compete against their rivals.
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I don't even know if I'll have enough kids to field a team next week.
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We can hardly field a team.
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We want to field our strongest runners.
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If you can't field a team, the league'll drop ya.
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It would be 40 years before the US fielded a World Cup team again.
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Georgia was one of four campuses that participated in this preflight program, all four of which fielded top football teams.
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We all know I can't field a competitive team with a bunch of 18-year-olds, that haven't played a meaningful snap since high school.
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The manager decided to field the best players available for the important match this Saturday.
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In order to be competitive, they must field a diverse group of athletes who excel in different areas.
Synonyms
Choose a person to take a position in a team
To pick teams or sides for a game
Antonyms
Idioms
Make the situation different so some people have a better chance to win
Phrasal Verbs
- Informal
Date several different people without wanting a serious relationship
- Informal
To move quickly and forcefully forward across a playing field in sports to try to score
- Specialized
To stop growing crops on a field for a time to let the soil get better
Compounds
- Specialized
An area around a magnet or electric current where a magnet's force moves objects
The part of the outfield on the left side in baseball and the player who plays there
- US
An area of grass or artificial grass marked for playing soccer with goalposts
A team sport played on grass where players use curved sticks to hit a small hard ball into a goal
- Specialized
A temporary hospital near a disaster or battlefield that treats injured people
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The space around a planet or other object that pulls things toward it
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The area you can see at one time, for example through a camera or telescope
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An area around a charged object that pushes or pulls other small charged things
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A measure of how strong an electric or magnetic field is at a place
- US
The part of the baseball outfield behind second base between left and right field
An area of land people prepare and keep for playing sports like soccer or track
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A wire wrapped around a magnet that makes a magnetic field in motors and generators
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An idea in physics that explains forces and particles as things spread through space and time, like gravity or electricity
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Large mobile guns that armies use to fire at enemy positions to help front-line troops
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A person in the army with the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
A competition on the field where athletes jump or throw, like long jump and shot put
- Jargon
A player who leads and directs the team's play on the field, often the quarterback
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An imaginary line that shows the direction of the force around magnets or electric charges
Part of business that helps companies tell people about and sell products or services
- Specialized
A microscope that makes tiny particles too small for an ordinary microscope appear bright on a dark background
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An area around electric charges that pushes or pulls other charges
A situation where everyone has an equal chance and no one has unfair advantages
- Specialized
A large movable weapon soldiers use on the battlefield to fire at enemy troops
- Specialized
Electrons leave a material's surface when a strong electric field pulls them into empty space
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How strong and which way an electric or magnetic field is at a point
- Specialized
An area where soldiers fight and do military work during a war
Surface Forms
Etymology
Field used to mean 'send out into the open land', so to field a team is to send players out to take part in a match or competition.