FIELDS

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• FIELDS (noun)
  The noun FIELDS has 1 sense:

1. United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)

  Familiarity information: FIELDS used as a noun is very rare.

• FIELDS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

United States comedian and film actor (1880-1946)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Fields; W. C. Fields; William Claude Dukenfield

Instance hypernyms:

comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)

 Context examples 

It is characterized by a maximum diameter greater than 5 cm and equal or less than 10 cm and no more than 5 mitotic figures per 50 high power fields.

(Gastric Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor of Uncertain Malignant Potential, NCI Thesaurus)

Here, in a clearing upon the green slope of a hill, stood a long, low, stone house, approached by a curving drive running through the fields.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The branch of physics concerned with the study of the interaction of magnetism with electrical currents and the properties of the currents and magnetic fields that are generated.

(Electromagnetism, NCI Thesaurus)

Made all my money at the gold fields.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Neutron stars generate magnetic fields so strong they can create "columns" that channel material down to the surface, generating powerful X-rays in the process.

(NASA Satellite Spots a Mystery That's Gone in a Flash, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Over-fertilization of agricultural fields is a growing environmental problem.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)

A measurement of the number of data fields, pixels or data points assigned to each linear dimension in a digital image.

(Image Acquisition Matrix Size, NCI Thesaurus)

We walked, that winter evening, in the fields together; and the blessed calm within us seemed to be partaken by the frosty air.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I was fortunate enough to discover that there was a deposit of fuller’s-earth in one of my fields.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An immature teratoma that arises from the ovary and is characterized by the presence of large amounts of immature neuroepithelial tissue that occupy more than three low power fields (40x) in any slide.

(Grade 3 Immature Ovarian Teratoma, NCI Thesaurus)