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Field work   /fild wərk/   Listen
Field work

noun
1.
An investigation carried out in the field rather than in a laboratory or headquarters.





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"Field work" Quotes from Famous Books



... should combine his field work with a study of botany. Like most subjects in school books, botany may seem dry and uninteresting but when we learn it for some definite purpose such as knowing the wild flowers and calling them our friends, we must accept the few strange ...
— Outdoor Sports and Games • Claude H. Miller
... of lecture method, laboratory work, recitations, research, case method, field work, assignment from a single text ...
— College Teaching - Studies in Methods of Teaching in the College • Paul Klapper
... two months' field work pursued during May and June, 1903. Accompanied by Mr. J. Diamond, a photographer, the writer went in the latter part of April to Iba, Zambales, where a few days were spent in investigating the dialects of the Zambal people and in preparation for ...
— Negritos of Zambales • William Allan Reed
... And all nations in time of war have employed relays of men with flags, stationed at fixed intervals for scores of miles, for the sending of despatches and important news. Napoleon used the system on a great scale, and, until the telegraph was invented and made practicable for field work, that was the only way it could ...
— The Boy Scout Automobilists - or, Jack Danby in the Woods • Robert Maitland
... babies was kept at home by de fire and nursed and cared fer by de ole wimmens dat couldn't do no field work. De chief one on our plantation during my 'membrance was ole aunt Abbie. She had head o' de chilluns all over de plantation when dey mamies was a working in de field. Marse Tom used to ride through de 'quarters' every day to see about ole lady Abbie and de chilluns when dey parents was at work ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration


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