Meaning and Origin
What does the name Field mean? Keep reading to find the user submitted meanings, dictionary definitions, and more.
User Submitted Origins
- Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
- A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture." Fields which promise corn and wine." [Byron.]
- A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself."In this glorious and well-foughten field." [Shak.]"What though the field be lost?" [Milton.]
- An open space; an extent; an expanse.
- Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
- The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.
"Without covering, save yon field of stars." [Shak.]
"Ask of yonder argent fields above." [Pope.]
- Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
- [Her] The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).
- An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room."Afforded a clear field for moral experiments." [Macaulay.]
- A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
- [Baseball] That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
Note: ☞ Field is often used adjectively in the sense of belonging to, or used in the fields; especially with reference to the operations and equipments of an army during a campaign away from permanent camps and fortifications. In most cases such use of the word is sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. A field geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes investigations or collections out of doors. A survey uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e., measurment, observations, etc., made in field work (outdoor operations). A farmer or planter employs field hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick. Field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc.
Etymology: OE. feld fild, AS. feld; akin to D. veld, G. feld, Sw. fält, Dan. felt, Icel. fold field of grass, AS. folde earth, land, ground, OS. folda
- To take the field.(Obs)
- [Ball Playing] To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
- A particular kind of commercial enterprise ("they are outstanding in their field")
- A place where planes take off and land
- The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
- A branch of knowledge
- All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
- All of the horses in a particular horse race
- (mathematics) a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1 ("the set of all rational numbers is a field")
- (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
- A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought ("they made a tour of Civil War battlefields")
- A region in which active military operations are in progress ("the army was in the field awaiting action")
- Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected ("anthropologists do much of their work in the field")
- A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed ("he planted a field of wheat")
- A piece of land prepared for playing a game ("the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field")
- A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found ("the diamond fields of South Africa")
- Extensive tract of level open land ("he longed for the fields of his youth")
- The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
- A particular environment or walk of life
- Select (a team or individual player) for a game ("The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl")
- Answer adequately or successfully ("The lawyer fielded all questions from the press")
- Play as a fielder
- Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
From Middle English field, feeld, feld, from Old English feld (“field; open or cultivated land, plain; battlefield”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz, *felþaz, *felþą (“field”), from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“field, plain”). Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
- There are several species of wild flowers growing in this .
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- A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
- There were some cows grazing in a .
- A crop circle was made in a corn .
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- The open country near or belonging to a town or city—usually used in plural.
- A physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region.
- magnetic ; gravitational
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- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
- He was an expert in the of Chinese history.
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- The extent of a given perception.
- of view
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- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- An area reserved for playing a game.
- soccer
- Substitutes are only allowed onto the after their boots are checked.
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- A realm of practical, direct, or natural operation, contrasting with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- The design needs to be -tested before we commit to manufacture.
- work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists.
- He needs some time in the before his judgment can be trusted.
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- (algebra) A commutative ring with identity for which every nonzero element has a multiplicative inverse.
- The set of rational numbers, , is the prototypical .
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- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- oil ; gold
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- (heraldry) The background of the shield.
- (vexillology) The background of the flag.
- (computing) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
- A component of a database record in which a single unit of information is stored.
- A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of characters.
- The form has for each element of the customer's home address and ship-to address.
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- (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
- (baseball) The outfield.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
- All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
- This racehorse is the strongest in a weak .
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