(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.
Meadow
Definition:
(n.) A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
(n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
Example Sentences:
(1) Meadow vole dams, housed in a 14L:10D photoperiod were injected daily 3 h before onset of darkness with 10 micrograms melatonin.
(2) The results are negative in swampy meadow -- habitats on siliceous soils.
(3) On returning to the courtyard you can take an optional loop through the bee and butterfly wildflower meadow – the start of the path is just behind the engine shed building.
(4) The effect of irrigation of meadows with the water of the river.
(5) The hypothesis that sex differences in maze learning result from sex differences in activity was tested with wild-caught prairie (Microtus ochrogaster) and meadow (M. pennsylvanicus) voles.
(6) Meadow voles exposed to house dust mites from the homes of patients did not develop serologic or pathologic evidence of infection due to rickettsiae in the spotted fever and typhus groups or Coxiella burnetii.
(7) Land reclamation measures carried out on the territory of a flood-plain-paludal focus of tularemia change the ecological and biocenotic links, which leads to the formation of a meadow-field focus with other-than-before sources and vectors of tularemia infection.
(8) Three bacterial isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., a Bacillus sp., and an Arthrobacter sp., commonly isolated from a hummocky sedge-moss meadow at Devon Island, N.W.T., Canada, were selected for further taxonomic characterization and for a study of the effects of temperature and limiting carbon source on growth.
(9) The site of the crash was in the marshy Ruhr meadows.
(10) The results demonstrate that meadow-mice, Columbian ground-squirrels, golden-mantled ground-squirrels, chipmunks and snowshoe hares (the latter to a lesser extent), when bitten by infected ticks, respond with rickettsiaemias of sufficient length and degree to infect normal larval D. andersoni.
(11) Anna asks, practically hanging a bell round Jill's neck and herding her into a meadow.
(12) Strauss uses his vast orchestra to depict the experiences of his character on the mountain: a distant hunting party (listen for the 12 offstage horns), waterfalls, meadows, a dark, threatening forest, losing the path, the triumphant view from the summit and the best storm in music since Rossini's William Tell Overture (listen out for the wind machine).
(13) He is thought to live in the Boreham Wood area, and featured in the match at Meadow Park, although he was unable to get on the scoresheet as the hosts lost 5-0.
(14) Do I think it gives the president a loss?” asked Mark Meadows, the chairman of the Freedom Caucus.
(15) Mycocarriers were most frequently found among small mammals living in corn fields (5.9%), less frequently in water meadows (0.9) and sporadically in forests and bushes (0.1%).
(16) Back in the meadow I followed a worn path that was most likely part of the badger’s nightly beat.
(17) The results of a serological survey of a free-living population of meadow voles (Microtus pennsylvanicus) in Pinawa, Manitoba (Canada) showed that these animals possessed antibodies to six of the eleven viruses tested for, namely: reovirus type 3, murine encephalomyelitis agent, ectromelia virus, murine adenovirus, murine hepatitis virus and lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus.
(18) "Embarking on new projects, we sometimes encounter unexpected challenges, and Street View has been no exception," said Google spokesman Taj Meadows, adding that "Street View abides by Thailand's local laws and only features imagery taken on public property".
(19) A New Yorker cartoon portrays a woman in an elegant boutique asking whether they have something to, “Fill that dark empty space in my soul.” As Dana Meadows observed , we seek to meet non-material needs with things.
(20) Grass-mowing of swampy meadows at the beginning of summer drying distinctly restricts numbers of snails, when Zonitoides nitidus lives in the habitats.