landing | the act of coming to land after a voyage |
landing | the act of coming down to the earth (or other surface), the plane made a smooth landing, his landing on his feet was catlike |
forced landing emergency landing | an unscheduled airplane landing that is made under circumstances (engine failure or adverse weather) not under the pilot's control |
amphibious landing | a military action of coordinated land, sea, and air forces organized for an invasion, MacArthur staged a massive amphibious landing behind enemy lines |
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 |
landing approach | the approach to a landing field by an airplane |
blind flying blind landing | using only instruments for flying an aircraft because you cannot see through clouds or mists etc. |
aircraft landing airplane landing | landing an aircraft |
crash landing | an emergency landing under circumstances where a normal landing is impossible (usually damaging the aircraft) |
three-point landing | a landing in which all three wheels of the aircraft touch the ground at the same time |
instrument landing | an aircraft landing made entirely by means of instruments |
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 |
diversionary landing | an amphibious diversionary attack |
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 |
Shiloh battle of Shiloh battle of Pittsburgh Landing | the second great battle of the American Civil War (), the battle ended with the withdrawal of Confederate troops but it was not a Union victory |
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 |
airstrip flight strip landing strip strip | an airfield without normal airport facilities |
auxiliary airfield | an airfield that functions in a subsidiary capacity |
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 |