Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Off the usual or desired track.
- adverb Away from one's home or usual environment.
- adverb To or on a field.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In or to the field or fields: as, “we drove a field,” Milton, Lycidas, l. 27; “Æneas is a field,”
- Abroad; off the beaten path; far and wide.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb To, in, or on the field.
- adverb Out of the way; astray.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb
Digressing from thetopic at hand. - adverb On the
field .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb far away from home or one's usual surroundings
- adverb off the subject; beyond the point at issue
- adverb in or into a field (especially a field of battle)
Etymologies
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Examples
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I don't know about the rest of you but the cost of going afield is as much to blame as anything.
young hunters 2009
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I don't know about the rest of you but the cost of going afield is as much to blame as anything.
young hunters 2009
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As the old saying goes, the worst day afield is better than the best day at work.
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You can wind up wasting a lot of your time addressing their nonsensical points which spread farther and farther afield from the discussion.
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As the old saying goes, the worst day afield is better than the best day at work.
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And again, that is afield from the narrow point you were making, that Democrats are not sympathetic to al-Qaeda.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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This is getting far afield from the subject of this thread, but the point is that cost-benefit considerations are not immoral.
The Volokh Conspiracy » 1. Science, Faith, and Not Ruling Out Possibilities 2010
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Law schools do tolerate some non-PC thinking, but not anything to far afield from the orthodoxy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? 2010
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Andy McGill: Law schools do tolerate some non-PC thinking, but not anything to far afield from the orthodoxy.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Add Bad Ethics to the Problems of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”? 2010
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Pretty far afield from the topic. joe from Lowell says:
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Morel mushroom season coincides with turkey season, so respect others afield. --Missouri Conservationist, March 2024.
February 23, 2024