Noun

(en noun)

A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.

A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.

* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

fields which promise corn and wine

*{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny

, chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields .”}}

The open country near or belonging to a town or city—usually used in plural.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields , in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.}}

A physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region.

(senseid)A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10, author=Audrey Garric

, volume=188, issue=22, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Urban canopies let nature bloom , passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field .}}

An area that can be seen at a given time.

(senseid)A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

this glorious and well-foughten field

* (John Milton) (1608-1674)

What though the field be lost?

An area reserved for playing a game.

A realm of practical, direct, or natural operation, contrasting with an office, classroom, or laboratory.

(senseid)(label) A commutative ring with identity for which every non element has a multiplicative inverse.

(label) A region containing a particular mineral.

(label) The background of the shield.

(label) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.

A component of a database record in which a single unit of information is stored.

A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of characters.

The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).

(label) The outfield.

An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.

* (1800-1859)

afforded a clear field for moral experiments

All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

Noun

(es)

A magnetic or electronic device used to determine the cardinal directions (usually magnetic or true north).

* John Locke

He that first discovered the use of the compass did more for the supplying and increase of useful commodities than those who built workhouses.

A pair of compasses (a device used to draw an arc or circle).

* Jonathan Swift

to fix one foot of their compass wherever they please

(music) The range of notes of a musical instrument or voice.

* Shakespeare

You would sound me from my lowest note to the top of my compass .

(obsolete) A space within limits; area.

* 1763 , M. Le Page Du Pratz, History of Louisiana (PG), page 47:

In going up the Missisippi [sic] , we meet with nothing remarkable before we come to the Detour aux Anglois, the English Reach: in that part the river takes a large compass .

* Addison

Their wisdom lies in a very narrow compass .

* 1913 ,

Clara thought she had never seen him look so small and mean. He was as if trying to get himself into the smallest possible compass .

(obsolete) An enclosing limit; boundary; circumference.

within the compass of an encircling wall

Moderate bounds, limits of truth; moderation; due limits; used with within .

* Sir J. Davies

In two hundred years before (I speak within compass ), no such commission had been executed.

Scope.

* Wordsworth

the compass of his argument

* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral , Oxford University Press (1973), section 8:

There is a truth and falsehood in all propositions on this subject, and a truth and falsehood, which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding.

* 1844 , (Edgar Allan Poe),

How very commonly we hear it remarked that such and such thoughts are beyond the compass of words! I do not believe that any thought, properly so called, is out of the reach of language.

(obsolete) A passing round; circuit; circuitous course.

* Bible, 2 Kings iii. 9

They fetched a compass of seven days' journey.

* Shakespeare

This day I breathed first; time is come round, / And where I did begin, there shall I end; / My life is run his compass .