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Meadow
A meadow is an open habitat, or field, vegetated by grass and other non-woody plants. They attract a multitude of wildlife and support flora and fauna that could not thrive in other conditions. They provide areas for courtship displays, nesting, food gathering, pollinating insects, and sometimes sheltering, if the vegetation is high enough, making them ecologically important. There are multiple types of meadows, such as agricultural, transitional, and perpetual, each important to the ecosystem. Meadows may be naturally occurring or artificially created from cleared shrub or woodland.
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Field (noun)
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
“There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.”
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Field (noun)
The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
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Field (noun)
A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
“There were some cows grazing in a field.”
“A crop circle was made in a corn field.”
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Field (noun)
An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
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Field (noun)
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
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Field (noun)
A region containing a particular mineral.
“oil field;”
“gold field”
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Field (noun)
A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
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Field (noun)
An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
“soccer field”
“Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.”
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Field (noun)
The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
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Field (noun)
The outfield.
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Field (noun)
A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game.
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Field (noun)
A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
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Field (noun)
Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
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Field (noun)
All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
“This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.”
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Field (noun)
A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
“magnetic field;”
“gravitational field;”
“scalar field”
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Field (noun)
Any of certain structures serving cognition.
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Field (noun)
The extent of a given perception.
“field of view”
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Field (noun)
A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
“The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.”
“Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists.”
“He needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted.”
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Field (noun)
A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
“He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.”
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Field (noun)
An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
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Field (noun)
A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
“The set of rational numbers, mathbb{Q}, is the prototypical field.”
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Field (noun)
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
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Field (noun)
The background of the shield.
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Field (noun)
The background of the flag.
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Field (noun)
A concrete section in a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
“The form has fields for each element of the customer’s home address and ship-to address.”
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Field (noun)
A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
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Field (verb)
To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
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Field (verb)
To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
“The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.”
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Field (verb)
To place (a team) in a game.
“The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.”
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Field (verb)
To answer; to address.
“She will field questions immediately after her presentation.”
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Field (verb)
To defeat.
“They fielded a fearsome army.”
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Field (verb)
To execute research (in the field).
“He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.”
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Field (verb)
To deploy in the field.
“to field a new land-mine detector”
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Meadow (noun)
A field or pasture; a piece of land covered or cultivated with grass, usually intended to be mown for hay.
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Meadow (noun)
Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rivers and in marshy places by the sea.
“the salt meadows near Newark Bay”
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Meadow (noun)
a piece of grassland, especially one used for hay
“a meadow ready for cutting”
“143 acres of meadow and pasture”
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Meadow (noun)
a piece of low ground near a river
“a pleasant campsite in a meadow, complete with sparkling stream”