Found 4 items, similar to field.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: field bidang
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: field ajang, lahan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: field field n 1: 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, battleground, field of battle, field of honor] 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, subject, subject area, subject field , field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of knowledge ] 5: the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it [syn: field of force, force field] 6: a particular kind of commercial enterprise; “they are outstanding in their field” [syn: field of operation, line of business ] 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, domain, area, orbit, arena] 8: a piece of land prepared for playing a game; “the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field” [syn: playing field , athletic field, playing area] 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, champaign] 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” [syn: field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations] 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) [syn: field of view] 17: a place where planes take off and land [syn: airfield, landing field , flying field] field v 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 Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl”
English → English (gcide) Definition: field Gun \Gun\ (g[u^]n), n. [OE. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin; cf. Ir., Gael., & LL. gunna, W. gum; possibly (like cannon) fr. L. canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. OF. mangonnel, E. mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.] 1. A weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance; any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles, consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge (such as guncotton or gunpowder) behind, which is ignited by various means. Pistols, rifles, carbines, muskets, and fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are called small arms. Larger guns are called cannon, ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc. See these terms in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster] As swift as a pellet out of a gunne When fire is in the powder runne. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] The word gun was in use in England for an engine to cast a thing from a man long before there was any gunpowder found out. --Selden. [1913 Webster] 2. (Mil.) A piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a cannon. [1913 Webster] 3. pl. (Naut.) Violent blasts of wind. [1913 Webster] Note: Guns are classified, according to their construction or manner of loading as rifled or smoothbore, breech-loading or muzzle-loading, cast or built-up guns; or according to their use, as field, mountain, prairie, seacoast, and siege guns. [1913 Webster] Armstrong gun, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named after its English inventor, Sir William Armstrong. Big gun or Great gun, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence (Fig.), a person superior in any way; as, bring in the big guns to tackle the problem. Gun barrel, the barrel or tube of a gun. Gun carriage, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or moved. Gun cotton (Chem.), a general name for a series of explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. Although there are formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. It burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity. Specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the highest (pyroxylin) which is soluble. See Pyroxylin, and cf. Xyloidin. The gun cottons are used for blasting and somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded with camphor; and the soluble variety (pyroxylin) for making collodion. See Celluloid, and Collodion. Gun cotton is frequenty but improperly called nitrocellulose. It is not a nitro compound, but an ester of nitric acid. Gun deck. See under Deck. Gun fire, the time at which the morning or the evening gun is fired. Gun metal, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. The name is also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron. Gun port (Naut.), an opening in a ship through which a cannon's muzzle is run out for firing. Gun tackle (Naut.), the blocks and pulleys affixed to the side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from the gun port. Gun tackle purchase (Naut.), a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall. --Totten. Krupp gun, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named after its German inventor, Herr Krupp. Machine gun, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns, mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the gun or guns and fired in rapid succession. In earlier models, such as the Gatling gun, the cartridges were loaded by machinery operated by turning a crank. In modern versions the loading of cartidges is accomplished by levers operated by the recoil of the explosion driving the bullet, or by the pressure of gas within the barrel. Several hundred shots can be fired in a minute by such weapons, with accurate aim. The Gatling gun, Gardner gun , Hotchkiss gun, and Nordenfelt gun, named for their inventors, and the French mitrailleuse, are machine guns. To blow great guns (Naut.), to blow a gale. See Gun, n., 3. [1913 Webster +PJC]