a particular kind of commercial enterprise | the first or preliminary coat of paint or size applied to a surface |
a place where planes take off and land | (art) the surface (as a wall or canvas) prepared to take the paint for a painting |
a branch of knowledge | a connection between an electrical device and a large conducting body, such as the earth (which is taken to be at zero voltage) |
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) | the part of a scene (or picture) that lies behind objects in the foreground |
(mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1 | a relatively homogeneous percept extending back of the figure on which attention is focused |
all of the horses in a particular horse race | a position to be won or defended in battle (or as if in battle) |
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event | a rational motive for a belief or action |
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information | the solid part of the earth's surface |
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed | material in the top layer of the surface of the earth in which plants can grow (especially with reference to its quality or use) |
somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected | a relation that provides the foundation for something |
a piece of land prepared for playing a game | the loose soft material that makes up a large part of the land surface |
a region in which active military operations are in progress | |
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | |
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found | |
extensive tract of level open land | |
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it | |
a particular environment or walk of life | |