(n.) Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
(n.) A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
(n.) A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
(n.) An open space; an extent; an expanse.
(n.) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
(n.) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.
(n.) 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).
(n.) An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
(n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
(n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
(v. i.) To take the field.
(v. i.) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
(v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
Example Sentences:
(1) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
(2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
(3) 8.43am BST A little more from that Field interview on Today.
(4) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
(5) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
(6) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
(7) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
(8) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
(9) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
(10) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
(11) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
(12) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
(13) No biologic investigation of the hemostatic impairment could be performed under the emergency conditions of this field study.
(14) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
(15) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
(16) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
(17) Components of locomotor activity were measured in an open field.
(18) The field of labeling formed a continuous band from rostro-laterally to caudo-medially.
(19) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
(20) These are particularly common in the field of sport.
Lacrosse
Definition:
(n.) A game of ball, originating among the North American Indians, now the popular field sport of Canada, and played also in England and the United States. Each player carries a long-handled racket, called a "crosse". The ball is not handled but caught with the crosse and carried on it, or tossed from it, the object being to carry it or throw it through one of the goals placed at opposite ends of the field.
Example Sentences:
(1) Women's lacrosse is potentially hazardous because, unlike men's lacrosse, helmets and face masks are not required.
(2) On Monday it issued a recall for another 3.36m cars including Chevrolet Impala, Cadillac Deville and Buick Lacrosse for an ignition issue that can lead to power steering and power braking being turned off while the car is being driven.
(3) As part of a continuing investigation on the ecology of LaCrosse virus in Wisconsin, field and laboratory studies were conducted to explore the possibility that the virus is transmitted transovarially in A. triseriatus mosquitoes.
(4) I was in my second season as the head women’s lacrosse coach at Drew University, and there was a game on the spring 2014 schedule that I dreaded: the University of Scranton.
(5) Few children will experience hockey, netball, lacrosse, rugby or trampolining without it.
(6) Aedes triseriatus mosquitoes became dually infected after ingesting two mutants of LaCrosse (LAC) virus simultaneously or after ingesting, by interrupted feeding, the two viruses sequentially within a 2-day period.
(7) Clavicular fractures and acromioclavicular joint dislocations occur frequently in high school lacrosse players.
(8) Disruption of the medial supporting structures of the knee occurs commonly in contact sports such as American football and lacrosse.
(9) Should a LaCrosse virus variant or reassortant evolve that was efficiently vectored by Ae.
(10) The purpose of this article is to document one case of a finger fracture and another of a nasal fracture caused by an impact injury from lacrosse sticks in women field-lacrosse players.
(11) The development of this injury is attributed to a defect in the design of the lacrosse chest protector.
(12) Some other infectious diseases such as LaCrosse encephalitis and Lyme disease are caused by agents closely dependent on the integrity of their environment.
(13) LaCrosse virus was recovered from F1 eggs, larvae, and adults that originated from the infected parent mosquitoes.
(14) Ann Thornber said that her son was a keen lacrosse player and he believed that a criminal conviction would destroy his life chances.
(15) It is seen almost exclusively in adolescentes or young adults engaged in active sports, notably basketball, but also football, lacrosse, tennis, and so forth.
(16) MANOVA analysis revealed that bracing did not significantly affect the performance of football players (males) but did inhibit the overall performance of lacrosse players (females) (P less than 0.05).
(17) His columns for The Chronicle range in subject from multiculturalism (which he calls “ segregation ”); to paid family leave (which results in men “getting laid off because [their] boss was losing too much money by paying absent employees ”); to the Duke lacrosse scandal (“a large number of people – instead of rejoicing at our peers’ innocence – will insist it is a conspiracy of white privilege ”).
(18) It is anticipated that when women midshipmen begin to participate in the same vigorous sports as men, e.g., soccer, lacrosse, and others, that injuries will increase.
(19) It’s like shutting down the Australian cricket team, saying we need a lacrosse team, and spending three decades investing in that.” He said several key capabilities will be lost from the country and the world.
(20) An immunoglobulin M (IgM) antibody capture enzyme immunoassay (MAC-EIA) was developed for the rapid and early diagnosis of LaCrosse (LAC) virus infections.