[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

gun \gun\ gu^n, n. oe. gonne, gunne; of uncertain origin;
   cf. ir., gael.,  ll. gunna, w. gum; possibly like cannon
   fr. l. canna reed, tube; or abbreviated fr. of. mangonnel, e.
   mangonel, a machine for hurling stones.
   1. a weapon which throws or propels a missile to a distance;
      any firearm or instrument for throwing projectiles,
      consisting of a tube or barrel closed at one end, in which
      the projectile is placed, with an explosive charge such
      as guncotton or gunpowder behind, which is ignited by
      various means. pistols, rifles, carbines, muskets, and
      fowling pieces are smaller guns, for hand use, and are
      called small arms. larger guns are called cannon,
      ordnance, fieldpieces, carronades, howitzers, etc.
      see these terms in the vocabulary.
      1913 webster

            as swift as a pellet out of a gunne
            when fire is in the powder runne.     --chaucer.
      1913 webster

            the word gun was in use in england for an engine to
            cast a thing from a man long before there was any
            gunpowder found out.                  --selden.
      1913 webster

   2. mil. a piece of heavy ordnance; in a restricted sense, a
      cannon.
      1913 webster

   3. pl. naut. violent blasts of wind.
      1913 webster

   note: guns are classified, according to their construction or
         manner of loading as rifled or smoothbore,
         breech-loading or muzzle-loading, cast or
         built-up guns; or according to their use, as field,
         mountain, prairie, seacoast, and siege guns.
         1913 webster

   armstrong gun, a wrought iron breech-loading cannon named
      after its english inventor, sir william armstrong.

   big gun or great gun, a piece of heavy ordnance; hence
      fig., a person superior in any way; as, bring in the big
      guns to tackle the problem.

   gun barrel, the barrel or tube of a gun.

   gun carriage, the carriage on which a gun is mounted or
      moved.

   gun cotton chem., a general name for a series of
      explosive nitric ethers of cellulose, obtained by steeping
      cotton in nitric and sulphuric acids. although there are
      formed substances containing nitric acid radicals, yet the
      results exactly resemble ordinary cotton in appearance. it
      burns without ash, with explosion if confined, but quietly
      and harmlessly if free and open, and in small quantity.
      specifically, the lower nitrates of cellulose which are
      insoluble in ether and alcohol in distinction from the
      highest pyroxylin which is soluble. see pyroxylin, and
      cf. xyloidin. the gun cottons are used for blasting and
      somewhat in gunnery: for making celluloid when compounded
      with camphor; and the soluble variety pyroxylin for
      making collodion. see celluloid, and collodion. gun
      cotton is frequenty but improperly called
      nitrocellulose. it is not a nitro compound, but an ester
      of nitric acid.

   gun deck. see under deck.

   gun fire, the time at which the morning or the evening gun
      is fired.

   gun metal, a bronze, ordinarily composed of nine parts of
      copper and one of tin, used for cannon, etc. the name is
      also given to certain strong mixtures of cast iron.

   gun port naut., an opening in a ship through which a
      cannon's muzzle is run out for firing.

   gun tackle naut., the blocks and pulleys affixed to the
      side of a ship, by which a gun carriage is run to and from
      the gun port.

   gun tackle purchase naut., a tackle composed of two
      single blocks and a fall. --totten.

   krupp gun, a wrought steel breech-loading cannon, named
      after its german inventor, herr krupp.

   machine gun, a breech-loading gun or a group of such guns,
      mounted on a carriage or other holder, and having a
      reservoir containing cartridges which are loaded into the
      gun or guns and fired in rapid succession. in earlier
      models, such as the gatling gun, the cartridges were
      loaded by machinery operated by turning a crank. in modern
      versions the loading of cartidges is accomplished by
      levers operated by the recoil of the explosion driving the
      bullet, or by the pressure of gas within the barrel.
      several hundred shots can be fired in a minute by such
      weapons, with accurate aim. the gatling gun, gardner
      gun, hotchkiss gun, and nordenfelt gun, named for
      their inventors, and the french mitrailleuse, are
      machine guns.

   to blow great guns naut., to blow a gale. see gun, n.,
      3.
      1913 webster +pjc
see also:
small arms cannon ordnance fieldpieces carronades howitzers 
rifled smoothbore breech-loading muzzle-loading cast 
built-up guns field mountain prairie seacoast 
siege guns armstrong gun big gun great gun gun barrel 
gun carriage gun cotton pyroxylin xyloidin celluloid 
collodion nitrocellulose gun deck deck gun fire 
gun metal gun port gun tackle gun tackle purchase krupp gun 
machine gun gatling gun gardner gun hotchkiss gun nordenfelt gun 
mitrailleuse to blow great guns gun 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

field \field\ f=eld, n. oe. feld, fild, as. feld; akin to
   d. veld, g. feld, sw. faumlt, dan. felt, icel. fold field
   of grass, as. folde earth, land, ground, os. folda.
   1. cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture;
      cultivated ground; the open country.
      1913 webster

   2. a piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece
      inclosed for tillage or pasture.
      1913 webster

            fields which promise corn and wine.   --byron.
      1913 webster

   3. a place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
      1913 webster

            in this glorious and well-foughten field. --shak.
      1913 webster

            what though the field be lost?        --milton.
      1913 webster

   4. an open space; an extent; an expanse. esp.:
      a any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn
          or projected.
      b the space covered by an optical instrument at one
          view; as, wide-field binoculars.
          1913 webster + pjc

                without covering, save yon field of stars.
                                                  --shak.
          1913 webster

                ask of yonder argent fields above. --pope.
          1913 webster

   5. her. the whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much
      of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon
      it. see illust. of fess, where the field is represented
      as gules red, while the fess is argent silver.
      1913 webster

   6. an unresticted or favorable opportunity for action,
      operation, or achievement; province; room.
      1913 webster

            afforded a clear field for moral experiments.
                                                  --macaulay.
      1913 webster

   7. sports an open, usually flat, piece of land on which a
      sports contest is played; a playing field; as, a football
      field; a baseball field.

   syn: playing field, athletic field, playing area.
        pjc

   8. specifically: baseball that part of the grounds reserved
      for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called
      also outfield.
      1913 webster

   9. a geographic region land or sea which has some notable
      feature, activity or valuable resource; as, the diamond
      fields of south africa; an oil field; a gold field; an ice
      field.
      wordnet 1.6

   10. a facility having an airstrip where airplanes can take
       off and land; an airfield.

   syn: airfield, landing field, flying field, aerodrome.
        wordnet 1.6

   11. a collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor
       contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the
       betting.
       1913 webster

   12. a branch of knowledge or sphere of activity; especially,
       a learned or professional discipline; as, she's an expert
       in the field of geology; in what field did she get her
       doctorate?; they are the top company in the field of
       entertainment.

   syn: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field
        of study, study, branch of knowledge.
        wordnet 1.6

   note: within the master text files of this electronic
         dictionary, where a word is used in a specific sense in
         some specialized field of knowledge, that field is
         indicated by the tags:  preceding that sense of the
         word.
         pjc

   13. a location, usually outdoors, away from a studio or
       office or library or laboratory, where practical work is
       done or data is collected; as, anthropologists do much of
       their work in the field; the paleontologist is in the
       field collecting specimens. usually used in the phrase

   in the field.
      wordnet 1.6

   14. physics the influence of a physical object, such as an
       electrically charged body, which is capable of exerting
       force on objects at a distance; also, the region of space
       over which such an influence is effective; as, the
       earth's gravitational field; an electrical field; a
       magnetic field; a force field.
       pjc

   15. math. a set of elements within which operations can be
       defined analagous to the operations of addition,
       subtraction, multiplication, and division on the real
       numbers; within such a set of elements addition and
       multiplication are commutative and associative and
       multiplication is distributive over addition and there
       are two elements 0 and 1; a commutative division ring;
       as, the set of all rational numbers is a field.
       wordnet 1.6

   note: field is often used adjectively in the sense of
         belonging to, or used in, the fields; especially with
         reference to the operations and equipments of an army
         during a campaign away from permanent camps and
         fortifications. in most cases such use of the word is
         sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field
         fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. a field
         geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes
         investigations or collections out of doors. a survey
         uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e.,
         measurment, observations, etc., made in field work
         outdoor operations. a farmer or planter employs field
         hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick.
         field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc.
         1913 webster

   coal field geol. see under coal.

   field artillery, light ordnance mounted on wheels, for the
      use of a marching army.

   field basil bot., a plant of the mint family calamintha
      acinos; -- called also basil thyme.

   field colors mil., small flags for marking out the
      positions for squadrons and battalions; camp colors.

   field cricket zool., a large european cricket gryllus
      campestric, remarkable for its loud notes.

   field day.
       a a day in the fields.
       b mil. a day when troops are taken into the field for
           instruction in evolutions. --farrow.
       c a day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day.

   field driver, in new england, an officer charged with the
      driving of stray cattle to the pound.

   field duck zool., the little bustard otis tetrax,
      found in southern europe.

   field glass. optics
       a a binocular telescope of compact form; a lorgnette; a
           race glass.
       b a small achromatic telescope, from 20 to 24 inches
           long, and having 3 to 6 draws.
       c see field lens.

   field lark. zool.
       a the skylark.
       b the tree pipit.

   field lens optics, that one of the two lenses forming the
      eyepiece of an astronomical telescope or compound
      microscope which is nearer the object glass; -- called
      also field glass.

   field madder bot., a plant sherardia arvensis used in
      dyeing.

   field marshal mil., the highest military rank conferred
      in the british and other european armies.

   field officer mil., an officer above the rank of captain
      and below that of general.

   field officer's court u.s.army, a court-martial
      consisting of one field officer empowered to try all
      cases, in time of war, subject to jurisdiction of garrison
      and regimental courts. --farrow.

   field plover zool., the black-bellied plover charadrius
      squatarola; also sometimes applied to the bartramian
      sandpiper bartramia longicauda.

   field spaniel zool., a small spaniel used in hunting
      small game.

   field sparrow. zool.
       a a small american sparrow spizella pusilla.
       b the hedge sparrow. eng.

   field staff mil., a staff formerly used by gunners to
      hold a lighted match for discharging a gun.

   field vole zool., the european meadow mouse.

   field of ice, a large body of floating ice; a pack.

   field, or field of view, in a telescope or microscope,
      the entire space within which objects are seen.

   field magnet. see under magnet.

   magnetic field. see magnetic.

   to back the field, or to bet on the field. see under
      back, v. t. -- to keep the field.
       a mil. to continue a campaign.
       b to maintain one's ground against all comers.

   to lay against the field or to back against the field, to
      bet on a horse, etc. against all comers.

   to take the field mil., to enter upon a campaign.
      1913 webster
see also:
fess outfield in the field coal field coal field artillery 
field basil calamintha acinos basil thyme field colors field cricket 
gryllus campestric field day field driver field duck otis tetrax 
field glass field lens field lark field glass field madder 
sherardia arvensis field marshal field officer field officer's court field plover 
charadrius squatarola bartramia longicauda field spaniel field sparrow spizella pusilla 
field staff field vole field of ice field field of view 
field magnet magnet magnetic field magnetic to back the field 
to bet on the field back to keep the field to lay against the field to back against the field 
to take the field 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

field \field\, v. i. imp.  p. p. fielded; p. pr.  vb. n.
   fielding.
   1. to take the field. obs. --spenser.
      1913 webster

   2. ball playing to stand out in the field, ready to catch,
      stop, or throw the ball.
      1913 webster
see also:
fielded fielding 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

field \field\, v. t. ball playing
   to catch, stop, throw, etc. the ball, as a fielder.
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

field
     n 1: a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he
          planted a field of wheat"
     2: a region where a battle is being or has been fought; "they
        made a tour of civil war battlefields" syn: battlefield,
         battleground, field of battle, field of honor
     3: somewhere away from a studio or office or library or
        laboratory where practical work is done or data is
        collected; "anthropologists do much of their work in the
        field"
     4: a branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his
        doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their
        subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings"
        syn: discipline, subject, subject area, subject
        field, field of study, study, bailiwick, branch of
        knowledge
     5: the space around a radiating body within which its
        electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another
        similar body not in contact with it syn: field of force,
         force field
     6: a particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are
        outstanding in their field" syn: field of operation, line
        of business
     7: a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere
        is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's
        out of my orbit" syn: sphere, domain, area, orbit,
         arena
     8: a piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd
        cheered when princeton took the field" syn: playing
        field, athletic field, playing area
     9: extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the
        woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields
        of his youth" syn: plain, champaign
     10: mathematics a set of elements such that addition and
         multiplication are commutative and associative and
         multiplication is distributive over addition and there
         are two elements 0 and 1; "the set of all rational
         numbers is a field"
     11: a region in which active military operations are in
         progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action";
         "he served in the vietnam theater for three years" syn:
         field of operations, theater, theater of operations,
          theatre, theatre of operations
     12: all of the horses in a particular horse race
     13: all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting
         event
     14: a geographic region land or sea under which something
         valuable is found; "the diamond fields of south africa"
     15: computer science a set of one or more adjacent characters
         comprising a unit of information
     16: the area that is visible as through an optical instrument
         syn: field of view
     17: a place where planes take off and land syn: airfield, landing
         field, flying field
     v 1: catch or pick up balls in baseball or cricket
     2: play as a fielder
     3: answer adequately or successfully; "the lawyer fielded all
        questions from the press"
     4: select a team or individual player for a game; "the
        patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the rose
        bowl"
see also:
battlefield battleground field of battle field of honor discipline subject 
subject area subject field field of study study bailiwick 
branch of knowledge field of force force field field of operation line of business 
sphere domain area orbit arena 
playing field athletic field playing area plain champaign 
field of operations theater theater of operations theatre theatre of operations 
field of view airfield landing field flying field 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

461 moby thesaurus words for "field":
   dmz, academic discipline, academic specialty, aceldama,
   achievement, acreage, aerodrome, agora, air base, airdrome,
   airfield, airport, alerion, ambit, amphitheater, ample scope,
   animal charge, annulet, answer, applicants, applied science,
   arable, archery ground, area, arena, argent, armorial bearings,
   armory, arms, art, athletic field, auditorium, azure, back,
   backdrop, background, badminton court, bag, bailiwick, bandeau,
   bar, bar sinister, baseball field, basketball court, baton,
   battle line, battle site, battlefield, battleground, bear garden,
   bearings, beat, bend, bend sinister, billet, billiard parlor,
   blank check, blazon, blazonry, block, border, borderland, bordure,
   bounds, bowl, bowling alley, bowling green, boxing ring, breadth,
   broad arrow, bull ring, cadency mark, campus, candidates, canton,
   canvas, carte blanche, catch, champaign, chaplet, charge, chevron,
   chief, cincture, circle, circuit, circus, classical education,
   clearance, clearing, clos, close, coat of arms, cockatrice,
   cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, combat area, combat zone, common,
   compass, competition, competitor, competitors, concern, confine,
   confines, container, contender, contestant, continuum, coop,
   cope with, core curriculum, corn field, coronet, corrival, course,
   course of study, court, courtyard, crescent, crest, cricket ground,
   croft, croquet ground, croquet lawn, cross, cross moline, crown,
   cultivated land, cup of tea, curriculum, curtilage, deal with,
   delimited field, demesne, department, department of knowledge,
   device, diamond, difference, differencing, dimension, discipline,
   distance, division, domain, dominion, eagle, elbowroom, elective,
   emptiness, empty space, emulator, enclave, enclosure, enemy line,
   entrant, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, expanse,
   expansion, expertise, extension, extent, fairway, falcon, fess,
   fess point, field of battle, field of blood, field of inquiry,
   field of study, file, firing line, flanch, fleur-de-lis, floor,
   fold, football field, forte, forty, forum, free course, free hand,
   free play, free scope, fret, front line, full scope, full swing,
   fur, fusil, galactic space, garland, general education,
   general studies, glaciarium, golf course, golf links, grassland,
   green, greensward, gridiron, griffin, ground, gules, gym,
   gymnasium, gyron, hall, handle, hatchment, hayfield, heliport,
   helmet, hemisphere, heraldic device, hinterland, humanities,
   ice rink, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, infield,
   infinite space, interest, interstellar space, island,
   judicial circuit, jurisdiction, killing ground, kraal, label, land,
   landing, landing beach, landing field, latitude, lawn, lea, leeway,
   liberal arts, limits, line, line of battle, links, lion, list,
   lists, locale, long rope, long suit, lot, lozenge, main interest,
   major, maneuvering space, manipulate, manner, mantling, march,
   margin, marketplace, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mat, mead,
   meadow, measure, metal, metier, milieu, minor, mise-en-scene,
   motto, mullet, natural science, no holds barred, nombril point,
   nothingness, octofoil, ology, open forum, open space, or, orb,
   orbit, ordinary, orle, outer space, outfield, oval, paddy,
   palaestra, pale, paling, paly, parade ground, parcel of land, park,
   pasture, patch, pean, pen, pet subject, pheon, pick up,
   piece of land, pit, place, plat, platform, play, player,
   playground, playing field, playroom, plot, plot of ground,
   polo ground, pool hall, poolroom, port, possibilities, precinct,
   prize ring, proportion, proseminar, province, public square,
   pure science, purlieu, purpure, pursuit, purview, putting green,
   quad, quadrangle, quadrivium, quarter, quartering, racecourse,
   racket court, range, reach, real estate, realm, rear,
   refresher course, region, reply to, respond to, retrieve, return,
   rice paddy, ring, rink, rival, room, rope, rose, round, sable,
   saltire, scene, scene of action, scenery, science,
   scientific education, scope, scutcheon, sea room, seat of war,
   section, seminar, setting, shambles, shield, site, skating rink,
   soccer field, social science, space, spatial extension, specialism,
   speciality, specialization, specialty, sphere, spread,
   spread eagle, square, squared circle, squash court, stadium, stage,
   stage set, stage setting, stop, strength, stretch, strong point,
   study, style, subdiscipline, subject, subordinary,
   superficial extension, surface, sward, sweep, swing,
   technical education, technicality, technicology, technics,
   technology, tenne, tennis court, terrain, territory, the field,
   the front, theater, theater of operations, theater of war, thing,
   tilting ground, tiltyard, tincture, toft, tolerance, torse, track,
   tract, tressure, trivium, turf, type, unicorn, vair, vert, vier,
   vocation, void, walk, way, weakness, wheat field, wide berth,
   wreath, wrestling ring, yale, yard, zone of communications

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

field
     
         an area of a database record, or
        graphical user interface form, into which a particular
        item of data is entered.
     
        example usage: "the telephone number field is not really a
        numerical field", "why do we need a four-digit field for the
        year?".
     
        a database column is the set of all instances of a given
        field from all records in a table.
     
        1999-04-26
     
     
see also:
database record graphical user interface form column table 

[8] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

field
   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. 1:21. it denotes
   sometimes a cultivated region as opposed to the wilderness gen.
   33:19; 36:35. unwalled villages or scattered houses are spoken
   of as "in the fields" deut. 28:3, 16; lev. 25:31; mark 6:36,
   56. the "open field" is a place remote from a house gen. 4:8;
   lev. 14:7, 53; 17:5. cultivated land of any extent was called a
   field gen. 23:13, 17; 41:8; lev. 27:16; ruth 4:5; neh. 12:29.
   

[9] : Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)

field. a part of a farra separately enclosed; a close. 1 chit. pr. 160. the 
digest defines a field to be a piece of land without a house; ager est 
locus, que sine villa est. dig. 50, 16, 27. 

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