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FIELDS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)
Synonyms:
Fields; W. C. Fields; William Claude Dukenfield
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb field
Context examples:
An immature teratoma that arises from the ovary and is characterized by the presence of foci of immature neuroepithelial tissue that occupy one to three low power fields (40x) in any slide.
(Grade 2 Immature Ovarian Teratoma, NCI Thesaurus)
The motions of the sun’s plasma constantly twist and tangle solar magnetic fields . Twisted magnetic fields can lead to solar storms that can negatively affect our technology-dependent modern lifestyles.
(Newest solar telescope produces first images, National Science Foundation)
There are too many special fields for any one man, in a whole lifetime, to master a tithe of them.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Problems due to excessive torque created by the application of magnetic fields.
(Device Magnetically Induced Torque Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
He could number the fields in every direction, and could tell how many trees there were in the most distant clump.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The land was divided by long rows of trees, not regularly planted, but naturally growing; there was great plenty of grass, and several fields of oats.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Device problems that result from the gradient induced fields generated during radiologic procedures e.g. magnetic resonance imaging.
(Device Gradient Induced Field Problem Evaluation Result, Food and Drug Administration)
Predefined values for some elements (fields) on a data entry workform.
(Constant Data Value, NCI Thesaurus)
Those fields of study concerned with observation and treatment of patients.
(Clinical Sciences, NCI Thesaurus)
Soon they rolled the Lion out of the poppy bed to the green fields, where he could breathe the sweet, fresh air again, instead of the poisonous scent of the flowers.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
