field
verb/fiːld/
/fiːld/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they field | /fiːld/ /fiːld/ |
| he / she / it fields | /fiːldz/ /fiːldz/ |
| past simple fielded | /ˈfiːldɪd/ /ˈfiːldɪd/ |
| past participle fielded | /ˈfiːldɪd/ /ˈfiːldɪd/ |
| -ing form fielding | /ˈfiːldɪŋ/ /ˈfiːldɪŋ/ |
- [transitive] field somebody/something to provide a candidate, speaker, team, etc. to represent you in an election, a competition, etc.
- Each of the main parties fielded more than 300 candidates.
- England fielded a young side in the World Cup.
- [intransitive] to be the person or the team that catches the ball and throws it back after somebody has hit it
- He won the toss and chose to field first.
- [transitive] field something to catch the ball and throw it back
- She fielded the ball expertly.
- [transitive] field something to receive and deal with questions or comments
- The BBC had to field more than 300 phone calls after last night's programme.
candidate/team
in cricket/baseball
questions
Word OriginOld English feld (also denoting a large tract of open country; compare with veld), of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch veld and German Feld.
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