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  • 61Field — (horseracing) 1. all of the horses running in a race: running at the tail end of the field ; not hampered by a big field ; 2. lay odds; work as a bookmaker ; 3. the field call used by bookmakers in order to drum up business, meaning that the… …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 62field — Australian Slang (horseracing) 1. all of the horses running in a race: running at the tail end of the field ; not hampered by a big field ; 2. lay odds; work as a bookmaker ; 3. the field call used by bookmakers in order to drum up business,… …

    English dialects glossary

  • 63field — /fi:ld/ noun ♦ in the field outside the office, among the customers ● We have sixteen reps in the field. ♦ first in the field being the first company to bring out a product or to start a service ● Smith Ltd has a great advantage in being first in …

    Marketing dictionary in english

  • 64Field —    (Heb. sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture (Gen. 29:2; 31:4; 34:7), or tillage (Gen. 37:7; 47:24). It is also applied to woodland (Ps. 132:6) or mountain top (Judg. 9:32, 36; 2 Sam.… …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 65field — n 1. pasture, clearing, Archaic. glebe; meadow, Archaic. mead, lea; sward, green, lawn, lot, common, campus. 2. playing field, the turf, track, hippodrome; ball field, diamond, gridiron, arena, lists; parade ground, Sl. grinder, drill field;… …

    A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

  • 66field — A cultivated tract of land. State v McMinn, 81 NC 585, 587. A tract of land cultivated or pastured. An area where athletic games are played, for example, Soldiers Field, in Chicago. An area of special knowledge or scientific endeavor, as the… …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 67field — 1) one of the four sectors of a scale, namely anterior (basal or imbedded), posterior (apical or exposed) and the two lateral fields (the upper and lower sectors) 2) the smallest unit of data in a database 3) a general term for the place where… …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 68field — 1. noun /fiːld/ a) A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field. b) A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals. There were some… …

    Wiktionary

  • 69field — 1) All the runners in a race. 2) Some sportsbooks or bookmakers may well group all the outsiders in a competition under the banner headline of Field and put it head to head with the favorite. This is known as favorite vs the field betting and is… …

    Equestrian sports dictionary

  • 70field — [OE] Like plain, field seems originally to have meant ‘area of flat, open land’. It comes ultimately from the Indo European base *plth , which also produced Greek platús ‘broad’, English place and plaice, and possibly also English flan and flat.… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins