Definition of Right field

1. Noun. The piece of ground in the outfield on the catcher's right.

Exact synonyms: Right, Rightfield
Group relationships: Outfield
Generic synonyms: Parcel, Parcel Of Land, Piece Of Ground, Piece Of Land, Tract
Derivative terms: Right Fielder

2. Noun. The fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is expected to field balls in the right third of the outfield (looking from home plate).
Exact synonyms: Rightfield
Generic synonyms: Position
Group relationships: Baseball Team
Derivative terms: Right Fielder

Definition of Right field

1. Noun. (baseball) The part of a baseball field which is beyond the infield and to your right if you stand on home plate and face the pitcher. ¹

2. Noun. (baseball) The defensive position in the outfield to the right, typically played by a player who can throw well. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Right Field

right branch of proper hepatic artery
right colic artery
right colic flexure
right colic lymph nodes
right colic vein
right coronary artery
right coronary artery branches
right coset
right cosets
right cross
right crosses
right crus of atrioventricular bundle
right crus of diaphragm
right duct of caudate lobe
right fibrous trigone
right field (current term)
right fielder
right fielders
right gastric artery
right gastric lymph nodes
right gastric vein
right gastro-omental artery
right gastro-omental lymph nodes
right gastroepiploic artery
right gastroepiploic lymph nodes
right gastroepiploic vein
right gastroomental vein
right hand
right handed
right hander

Literary usage of Right field

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1912)
"Players who "pull" Fig3 to right field (Fig. 4), all slow ones to left (the natural hit) ; others, by some peculiar mental twist, swing more quickly on fast ..."

2. Principles of Foreign Trade by Norbert Savay (1919)
"The Right Man for the right field In selecting salesmen for the foreign field the sales manager will be called upon to show the same nice discrimination ..."

3. Transactions of the Pathological Society of London by Pathological Society of London (1890)
"... obscuration of the left half of the left field does not even reach a point which would correspond in the right field to the limit of the normal field. ..."

4. Studies in Philosophy and Psychology by Charles Edward Garman, James Hayden Tufts, Edmund Burke Delabarre, Frank Chapman Sharp, Arthur Henry Pierce, Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge (1906)
"Number of individuals tested 17 Number of separate series of tests 68 Number of testa 2389 Typical result: With right field open, line seems inclined upward ..."

5. Studies in Philosophy and Psychology by Charles Edward Garman, James Hayden Tufts, Edmund Burke Delabarre, Frank Chapman Sharp, Arthur Henry Pierce, Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge (1906)
"For eleven individuals, this preponderance of the right field was evident, ranging in amount from 14% to 66%, and averaging 43% ±18. ..."

6. Catalogue of the Greek and Roman Coins in the Numismatic Collection of Yale by Yale University, Jonathan Edwards (1880)
"... on the right one of which rests a small bird; in right field the letters HA, and in left h, L. AA (year 31). do 16.24 JE 29.1 Head of queen to right, ..."

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