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Field can be a noun or a verb.

field used as a noun:

  1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
  2. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
  3. The open country near or belonging to a city -- usually used in plural.
  4. A region affected by a particular force.
    "magnetic field"
  5. A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
  6. A set having two operations called addition and multiplication under both of which all the elements of the set are commutative and associative; for which multiplication distributes over addition; and for both of which there exist an identity element and an inverse element.
    "The set of rational numbers, \mathbb{Q}, is the prototypical field."
  7. An area reserved for playing a game.
    "soccer field"
  8. A region containing a particular mineral.
    "oil field or oilfield"
  9. The background of the shield
  10. An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.

Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →

field used as a verb:

  1. To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
  2. To place a team in (a game).
  3. To answer; to address.
    "She will field questions immediately after her presentation."

Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →

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What type of word is field?

As detailed above, 'field' can be a noun or a verb. Here are some examples of its usage:
  1. Noun usage: magnetic field
  2. Noun usage: The set of rational numbers, \mathbb{Q}, is the prototypical field.
  3. Noun usage: soccer field
  4. Noun usage: oil field or oilfield
  5. Noun usage: gold field or goldfield
  6. Verb usage: She will field questions immediately after her presentation.

Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of field are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of field, and guess at its most common usage.

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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.

The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.

Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.

Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.

Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).

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