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 |
magnetic resonance imaging MRI | the use of nuclear magnetic resonance of protons to produce proton density images |
functional magnetic resonance imaging fMRI | a form of magnetic resonance imaging of the brain that registers blood flow to functioning areas of the brain |
blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging BOLD FMRI | functional magnetic resonance imaging that relies on intrinsic changes in hemoglobin oxygenation |
magnetic levitation maglev | high-speed rail technology, train is suspended on a magnetic cushion above a magnetized track and so travels free of friction |
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 |
core magnetic core | (computer science) a tiny ferrite toroid formerly used in a random access memory to store one bit of data, now superseded by semiconductor memories, each core has three wires passing through it, providing the means to select and detect the contents of each bit |
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 |
magnetic bottle | container consisting of any configuration of magnetic fields used to contain a plasma during controlled thermonuclear reactions |