/fiːld/, /fild/
OriginFrom Middle English feeld, feld, from Old English feld, from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fial, fälj (“field”), Saterland Frisian Fäild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German, Luxembourgish Feld (“field”), Vilamovian fald (“field”), Danish, Norwegian felt (“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; an area of open country.
“There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.”
- plural-normallyThe open country near or belonging to a town or city.
“Harry shook his head, and wandered away miserable through the fields, and would not in these days even set his foot upon the soil of the park. “He was not going to intrude any farther,” he said to the”
“I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohai”
- A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
“There were some cows grazing in a field.”
“A crop circle was made in a corn field.”
“The castled crag of Drachenfels
Frowns o’er the wide and winding Rhine
Whose breast of waters broadly swells
Between the banks which bear the vine
And hills all rich with blossomed trees
And fields wh”
- A region containing a particular mineral.
“an oil field; a gold field”
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
“Tarry, sweet soul, for mine; then fly abreast,
As in this glorious and well-foughten field
We kept together in our chivalry!”
“[…] What though the field be lost?
All is not lost; th’ unconquerable will,
And study of revenge, immortal hate,
And courage never to submit or yield,
And what is else not to be overcome;
That glory n”
- An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
“soccer field”
“Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.”
“Blake was a thorough gambler, and knew well how to make the most of the numerous chances which the turf afforded him. He had a large stud of horses, to the training and working of which he attended al”
- obsoleteThe team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
- The outfield.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
- A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
“Dr. Finn understood enough of elections for Parliament, and of the nature of boroughs, to be aware that a candidate’s chance of success is very much improved by being early in the field.”
- metonymicallyAll 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 field.”
- A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
“magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field”
- The extent of a given perception.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
“The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.”
“Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists.”
“He needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted.”
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
“As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much ”
“He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.”
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
“Penn was without doubt a man of eminent virtues. He had a strong sense of religious duty and a fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. On one or two points of high importance, he had notio”
“Tidings had reached her of this and the other man’s success, and,—coming near to her still,—of this and that other woman’s earnings in literature. And it had seemed to her that, within moderate limits”
- A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
“The set of rational numbers, #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;, is the prototypical field.”
“Whereas a ring has three binary operators: (1) an additive operator, (2) a subtractive operator, and (3) a multiplicative operator, a field has four binary operators: the three ring binary operators a”
- The background of the shield.
“The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain.”
- The background of the flag.
- The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
“The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and shipping address.”
“PHP 5 Forms Required Fields at W3Schools
From the validation rules table on the previous page, we see that the "Name", "E-mail", and "Gender" fields are required. These fields cannot be empty and must”
- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
“Read-only fields allow you to establish a point of data whose value is not known at compile time, but that should never change once established.”
- Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
- transitiveTo intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- intransitiveTo be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
“The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.”
- transitiveTo place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
“The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.”
“On balance, it was harsh on Hearts, who had given as good as they got against their more-fancied opponents, who, despite not being at full strength, fielded a multi-million pound team.”
- transitiveTo answer; to address.
“She will field questions immediately after her presentation.”
- transitiveTo execute research (in the field).
“He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.”
- transitiveTo deploy in the field.
“to field a new land-mine detector”
- A surname.
“Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and ”
- A community near Field Hill within Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada, named after Cyrus West Field.
- A community in West Nipissing, Northeastern Ontario, Canada.
- An unincorporated community in Bell County, Kentucky, United States.
- A neighbourhood of Nokomis, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
- A locality in south-east South Australia.
- A hamlet in Leigh parish, East Staffordshire district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SK0233).
Formsfields(plural) · fields(present, singular, third-person) · fielding(participle, present) · fielded(participle, past) · fielded(past) · Feild(alternative)