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How to sign: a piece of land prepared for playing a game
"the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field";
Similiar / Same: athletic field, playing area, playing field
Categories: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract
Within this category: arena, ball field, bowling green, court, football field, palestra
How to sign: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed
"he planted a field of wheat";
Categories: parcel, parcel of land, piece of ground, piece of land, tract
Within this category: campus, firebreak, grainfield, lawn, paddy, yard
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: discipline, subject area, subject field, field of study, branch of knowledge, bailiwick, subject, study
Categories: knowledge base, knowledge domain
Within this category: allometry, architecture, bibliotics, communications, engineering, frontier, futurology, humanistic discipline, major, military science, numerology, occultism, ology, protology, science, theogony, theology
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: sphere, domain, arena, area, orbit
Categories: environment
Within this category: distaff, front, kingdom, lap, political arena, preserve, province
How to sign: (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
Categories: set
Within this category: bit field
