A field on which a game, especially a ball game, is played. / (figuratively) Any place or context within which competitive activity takes place, such as market competition between companies.

(military) A day for manoeuvres and tactical exercises in "the field". / A school day for athletic events; a sports day. / A day of class taken away from school for a field trip.

(alternative medicine) The spiritual or etheric energy produced by an individual living being.

The field of fire of a machine gun or artillery. / A place of mass slaughter, especially the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

A number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.

(electricity, physics) A region of space around a charged particle, or between two voltages, which exerts a force on charged objects in its vicinity.

(cricket) To get out by deliberately obstructing a fielder in order to prevent him from making a catch or run out, or from gathering the ball (very rare).

(American football, Canadian football) A kick of the ball through the uprights and over the crossbar (not after a touchdown). It scores 3 points.

(cricket) An attacking ring of infielders, square and in front of the wicket - point, cover, mid off, mid on, midwicket, square leg.

(Canada, US) A small vole such as the meadow vole. / One of several species of mice in genus Apodemus found in Eurasia and Africa. / One of several species of mice in genus Akodon found in South America.