Definitions for Fielding

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Fielding Field·ing

Spelling: [feel-ding]

IPA: /ˈfil dɪŋ/

Fielding is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 181 anagrams from letters in Fielding (defgiiln).

Definitions for Fielding

noun

1. Henry, 1707–54, English novelist, dramatist, and essayist.
2. an expanse of open or cleared ground, especially a piece of land suitable or used for pasture or tillage.
3. Sports. a piece of ground devoted to sports or contests; playing field. (in betting) all the contestants or numbers that are grouped together as one: (in football) the players on the playing ground. the area in which field events are held.
4. Baseball. the team in the field, as opposed to the one at bat. the outfield.
5. a sphere of activity, interest, etc., especially within a particular business or profession:
6. the area or region drawn on or serviced by a business or profession; outlying areas where business activities or operations are carried on, as opposed to a home or branch office:
7. a job location remote from regular workshop facilities, offices, or the like.
8. Military. the scene or area of active military operations. a battleground. a battle. Informal. an area located away from the headquarters of a commander.
9. an expanse of anything:
10. any region characterized by a particular feature, resource, activity, etc.:
11. the surface of a canvas, shield, etc., on which something is portrayed:
12. (in a flag) the ground of each division.
13. Physics. the influence of some agent, as electricity or gravitation, considered as existing at all points in space and defined by the force it would exert on an object placed at any point in space. Compare electric field, gravitational field, magnetic field.
14. Also called field of view. Optics. the entire angular expanse visible through an optical instrument at a given time.
15. Electricity. the structure in a generator or motor that produces a magnetic field around a rotating armature.
16. Mathematics. a number system that has the same properties relative to the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division as the number system of all real numbers; a commutative division ring.
17. Photography. the area of a subject that is taken in by a lens at a particular diaphragm opening.
18. Psychology. the total complex of interdependent factors within which a psychological event occurs and is perceived as occurring.
19. Computers. one or more related characters treated as a unit and constituting part of a record, for purposes of input, processing, output, or storage by a computer: (in a punch card) any number of columns regularly used for recording the same information.
20. Television. one half of the scanning lines required to form a complete television frame. In the U.S., two fields are displayed in 1/30 second: all the odd-numbered lines in one field and all the even lines in the next field. Compare frame (def 9).
21. Numismatics. the blank area of a coin, other than that of the exergue.
22. Fox Hunting. the group of participants in a hunt, exclusive of the master of foxhounds and his staff.
23. Heraldry. the whole area or background of an escutcheon.

Idioms

1. in the field, in actual use or in a situation simulating actual use or application; away from a laboratory, workshop, or the like: in contact with a prime source of basic data: within a given profession:
2. keep the field, to remain in competition or in battle; continue to contend:
3. out in left field. left field (def 3).
4. play the field, Informal. to vary one's activities. to date a number of persons rather than only one:
5. take the field, to begin to play, as in football or baseball; go into action. to go into battle:

adjective

1. Sports. of, taking place, or competed for on the field and not on the track, as the discus throw or shot put. of or relating to field events.
2. Military. of or relating to campaign and active combat service as distinguished from service in rear areas or at headquarters:
3. of or relating to a field.
4. grown or cultivated in a field.
5. working in the fields of a farm:
6. working as a salesperson, engineer, representative, etc., in the field:

verb (used with object)

1. Baseball, Cricket. to catch or pick up (the ball) in play: to place (a player, group of players, or a team) in the field to play.
2. to place in competition:
3. to answer or reply skillfully:
4. to put into action or on duty:
5. Informal. field-test.

verb (used without object)

1. to act as a fielder; field the ball.
2. to take to the field.

Origin of Fielding

before 1000; Middle English, Old English feld; cognate with German Feld

Examples for Fielding

The appearance which Fielding makes is no doubt the most modest of the four.

The champions of that great movement were Fielding, Ferrand, and Oastler.

His first piece was Fielding's "Opera of Operas," produced in 1733.

Spenser may have lost by being less realistic than Fielding.

The GOP is Fielding its strongest slate of presidential candidates in forever.

Soon after the publication of the book, a great calamity came on Fielding.

He's dazzling, Fielding questions, spinning out anecdotes and limericks, sounding 35 and hungry for publicity.

Lou agreed, until the photographer suggested that Dahlgren pose in a Fielding position at first base, with Lou cheering him on.

No one in the Hall of Fame was the very best at every hitting or Fielding measurement all the time either.

But here Virgin was Fielding only one test vehicle that embodied a whole set of completely untried systems.