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FIELDING

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• FIELDING (noun)
The noun FIELDING has 2 senses:

1. (baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field
2. English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)

Familiarity information: FIELDING used as a noun is rare.

• FIELDING (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

(baseball) handling the ball while playing in the field

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("fielding" is a kind of...):

handling; manipulation (the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means)

Domain category:

baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Henry Fielding; Fielding

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

"Mouth is in gear, brain is in neutral"
(English proverb)
"Force, no matter how concealed, begets resistance."
(Native American proverb, Lakota)

"Just toss it in my hat and I'll sort it to-morrow."
(Dutch proverb)

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