| field goal | a score in American football, a score made by kicking the ball between the opponents' goal posts |
basket
field goal | a score in basketball made by throwing the ball through the hoop |
| field trip | a group excursion (to a museum or the woods or some historic place) for firsthand examination |
outdoor sport
field sport | a sport that is played outdoors |
| track and field | participating in athletic sports performed on a running track or on the field associated with it |
| field game | an outdoor game played on a field of specified dimensions |
field hockey
hockey | a game resembling ice hockey that is played on an open field, two opposing teams use curved sticks try to drive a ball into the opponents' net |
| field work | an investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquarters |
dark ground illumination
dark field illumination | a form of microscopic examination of living material by scattered light, specimens appear luminous against a dark background |
left field
leftfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the left third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
center field
centerfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the central third of the outfield |
right field
rightfield | the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate) |
quarterback
signal caller
field general | (American football) the position of the football player in the backfield who directs the offensive play of his team, quarterback is the most important position on the team |
| field trial | a test of young hunting dogs to determine their skill in pointing and retrieving |
| field press censorship | security review of news (including all information or material intended for dissemination to the public) subject to the jurisdiction of the armed forces |
field
field of operation
line of business | a particular kind of commercial enterprise, they are outstanding in their field |
| Bosworth Field | the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (), Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned as Henry VII |
Flodden
Battle of Flodden Field | a battle in , the English defeated the invading Scots and James IV was killed |
field sparrow
Spizella pusilla | common North American finch of brushy pasturelands |
| field spaniel | large usually black hunting and retrieving spaniel with a dense flat or slightly wavy coat, cross between cocker and Sussex spaniel |
field cricket
Acheta assimilis | common American black cricket, attacks crops and also enters dwellings |
| field mouse fieldmouse | any nocturnal Old World mouse of the genus Apodemus inhabiting woods and fields and gardens |
vole
field mouse | any of various small mouselike rodents of the family Cricetidae (especially of genus Microtus) having a stout short-tailed body and inconspicuous ears and inhabiting fields or meadows |
airfield
landing field
flying field
field | a place where planes take off and land |
ball field
baseball field
diamond | the baseball playing field |
binoculars
field glasses
opera glasses | an optical instrument designed for simultaneous use by both eyes |
center field
centerfield
center | the piece of ground in the outfield directly ahead of the catcher, he hit the ball to deep center |
field artillery
field gun | movable artillery (other than antiaircraft) used by armies in the field (especially for direct support of front-line troops) |
field coil
field winding | the electric coil around a field magnet that produces the magneto motive force to set up the flux in an electric machine |
field-effect transistor
FET | a transistor in which most current flows in a channel whose effective resistance can be controlled by a transverse electric field |
| field-emission microscope | electron microscope used to observe the surface structure of a solid |
field glass
glass spyglass | a small refracting telescope |
| field hockey ball | ball used in playing field hockey |
| field hospital | a temporary military hospital near the battle lines |
| field house | an athletic facility where athletes prepare for sport |
| field house sports arena | a building for indoor sports |
| field lens | the lens that is farthest from the eye in an optical device with more than one lens |
| field magnet | a magnet that provides a magnetic field in a dynamo or electric motor |
field-sequential color television
field-sequential color TV
field-sequential color television system
field-sequential color TV system | an early form of color TV in which successive fields are scanned in three primary colors |
| field tent | a canvas tent for use in the field |
football field
gridiron | the playing field on which football is played |
hop garden
hop field | a garden where hops are grown |
hut army hut
field hut | temporary military shelter |
left field
leftfield
left | the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's left, the batter flied out to left |
right field
rightfield
right | the piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right |
ultramicroscope
dark-field microscope | light microscope that uses scattered light to show particles too small to see with ordinary microscopes |
field strength
field intensity | the vector sum of all the forces exerted by an electrical or magnetic field (on a unit mass or unit charge or unit magnetic pole) at a given point in the field |
magnetic field strength
magnetic intensity
magnetic induction
magnetic flux density | the amount of magnetic flux in a unit area perpendicular to the direction of magnetic flow |
field trial
field test | a test of the performance of some new product under the conditions in which it will be used |
| field field of view | the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) |