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  • 21field — I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English feld; akin to Old High German feld field, Old English flōr floor more at floor Date: before 12th century 1. a. (1) an open land area free of woods and buildings (2) an area of land marked by the …

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  • 22Wheat, Leonard F. —    After retiring as an economist with the Economic Development Administration of the U. S. Department of Commerce in 1997, Leonard F. Wheat wrote Kubrick’s 2001:A Triple Allegory, published by Scarecrow Press in June 2000. The book first… …

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  • 23field — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. clearing, grassland; expanse, range, plot; playground, links, court, airport, aerodrome, arena; scope, sphere, realm; battlefield, warfare. See region, business, agriculture, space. II (Roget s IV)… …

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  • 24field*/*/*/ — [fiːld] noun [C] I 1) an area of land that is used for keeping animals or growing food a field of wheat[/ex] 2) a subject that you study, or a type of work that you do Professor Edwards is one of the main experts in his field.[/ex] the field of… …

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  • 25Field mill (carriage) — For other uses, see Field mill (disambiguation) A field mill, also known as a camp mill, was a premodern vehicle which acted as a mobile mill used for grinding grains, which had the very practical use of feeding a moving army. It was first… …

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  • 26wheat — noun (U) 1 the grain that bread is made from 2 the plant that this grain grows on: a field of wheat 3 separate the wheat from the chaff to choose the good and useful things or people and get rid of the others …

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  • 27field of wheat — Cockney Rhyming Slang Street He out standing in the field, waiting for a bus …

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  • 28Red Fife wheat — Red Fife is a heritage bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) and is a landrace, meaning there is genetic variability in the wheat, allowing it to adapt to a diversity of growing conditions. Red Fife is the name of a bread wheat variety that David Fife… …

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  • 29Variation of the field — In heraldry, variations of the field are any of a number of ways that a field (or a charge) may be covered with a pattern, rather than a flat tincture or a simple division of the field. Contents 1 Patterning with ordinaries and subordinaries 1.1… …

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  • 30grain field — noun a field where grain is grown • Syn: ↑grainfield • Hypernyms: ↑field • Hyponyms: ↑cornfield, ↑corn field, ↑wheatfield, ↑wheat field …

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