fielder

«fielder» in Mova's school dictionary: a player in cricket, baseball or rounders whose team is… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a fielder, fielders)

meaning for a pupil

A fielder is a player in cricket, baseball or rounders whose team is not batting, who tries to catch or stop the ball. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE and sport lessons, fielders stand at positions round the field and work as a team to get batters out. Phrases: «a good fielder», «outfielder», «the fielder caught it».

examples

• The fielder caught the ball and the batter was out. tree →
• In cricket there are eleven fielders including the bowler and the wicketkeeper. tree →
• The fielder threw the ball back to the bowler. tree →
• Our best fielder dived for the ball. tree →
• In baseball the outfielders stand far from the batter. tree →
• Fielders must watch the ball all the time. tree →
• Two fielders ran for the same catch and bumped into each other. tree →

note

Countable. Related: «field» (verb, to catch and return the ball), «fielding». The team batting has batters; the team in the field has fielders.

In the corpora

• Fielders close to the batter wear a helmet or stand further back, because hard shots hit them.
• A cricket or hockey ball is hard enough to break bones, so close fielders and goalies wear helmets and pads.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «fielder» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.