Noun

(en noun)

A length of some object.

One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.

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(label) A portion.

# A straight path between two points that is the shortest distance between them.

# (label) The part of a circle between its circumference and a chord (usually other than the diameter).

# (label) Any of the pieces that comprise an order tree.

(label) A portion.

# (label) A discrete unit of speech: a consonant or a vowel.

# (label) A portion of an organ whose cells are derived from a single cell within the primordium from which the organ developed.

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In Lejeuneaceae vegetative branches normally originate from the basiscopic basal portion of a lateral segment half, as in the Radulaceae, and the associated leaves, therefore, are quite unmodified.

# (label) One of several parts of an organism, with similar structure, arranged in a chain; such as a vertebra, or a third of an insect's thorax.

(label) A part of a broadcast program, devoted to a topic.

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 29, author=Nathan Rabin

, title= TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992) , passage=In “Treehouse Of Horror” episodes, the rules aren’t just different—they don’t even exist. If writers want Homer to kill Flanders or for a segment to end with a marriage between a woman and a giant ape, they can do so without worrying about continuity or consistency or fans griping that the gang is behaving out of character.}}

(label) An Ethernet bus.

(label) A region of memory or a fragment of an executable file designated to contain a particular part of a program.

(label) A portion of an itinerary; can be a flight or train between two cities, a car or hotel booked in a particular city.

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.

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, 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.