field

There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.

en:land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country

A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.

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 rector. “You can come to church, at any rate,” his father said, “for he certainly will not be there while you are at the parsonage.” Oh yes, Harry would go to the church. “I have yet to understand that Mr. Prosper is owner of the church, and the path there from the rectory is, at any rate, open to the public;” for at Buston the church stands on one corner of the park.

1883, Anthony Trollope, Mr. Scarborough's Family, Chap. XXIV:

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 Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing.

1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

(usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.

The open country near or belonging to a town or city.

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 which promise corn and wine
And scatter’d cities crowning these
Whose far white walls along them shine,
Have strew’d a scene, which I should see
With double joy wert thou with mo.

1816, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third, LV:

Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.”

1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:

en:wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals

A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.

an oil field; a gold field

en:geology: region containing a particular mineral

(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

A region containing a particular mineral.

An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.

Tarry, sweet soul, for mine; then fly abreast,
As in this glorious and well-foughten field
We kept together in our chivalry!

c. 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry V, act IV, scene VI:

[…] 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 never shall his wrath or might!

1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, Verses 105–110:

A place where competitive matches are carried out.

A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

A place where competitive matches are carried out.

An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.

(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).

en:sports: area reserved for playing a game

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 almost as closely as the person whom he paid for doing so. But it was in the betting-ring that he was most formidable. It was said, in Kildare Street, that no one at Tattersall's could beat him at a book. He had latterly been trying a wider field than the Curragh supplied him and had, on one or two occasions, run a horse in England with such success, as had placed him, at any rate, quite at the top of the Irish sporting tree.

1848, Anthony Trollope, The Kellys and the O’Kellys, Chap. III:

A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.

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.

1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn, Chap. XXV:

A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.

This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.

(metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

(physics) 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.

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

en:physics: region affected by a particular force

field of view

Any of certain structures serving cognition.

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 realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.

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 as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.

2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:

He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.

A domain of study, knowledge or practice.

en:course of study or domain of knowledge or practice

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 notions more correct than were, in his day, common even among men of enlarged minds: and as the proprietor and legislator of a province which, being almost uninhabited when it came into his possession, afforded a clear field for moral experiments, he had the rare good fortune of being able to carry his theories into practice without any compromise, and yet without any shock to existing institutions.

1848, Thomas Macaulay, chapter IV, in The History Of England From the Accession of James II, volume 1:

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, she might give a wide field to her hopes.

1875, Anthony Trollope, chapter 2, in The Way We Live Now, London: Chapman and Hall, […]:

An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.

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 and (4) a divisive operator. (N.B.: Only the additive and multiplicative operators are axiomatic. The subtractive operator may be derived by combining the additive and the unary negative operators; the divisive operator may be derived by combining the multiplicative and the unary inversive operators.)

Any of certain structures serving cognition.

(algebra) A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.

A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.

(heraldry) The background of the shield.

(vexillology) The background of the flag.

(numismatics) The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.

The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.

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 be filled out in the HTML form.

A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.

A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.

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.

2007, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# with .NET 3.0, Special Edition, page 82:

object-oriented programming
object-oriented programming

(computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.

en:computing: area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value

(electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.

Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.

The manager should always choose his own Eleven; and, we have already hinted that fielding, rather than batting, is the qualification. A good field is sure to save runs, though the best batsman may not make any.

Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain

Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

→ Japanese: フィールド (fīrudo)

veld

land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country

veld

wide, open space used to grow crops or to hold farm animals

zonë

geology: region containing a particular mineral

fushë

sports: area reserved for playing a game

pole závodníků

all of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting

fushë

physics: region affected by a particular force

fushë

course of study or domain of knowledge or practice

veld

mathematics (algebra): a commutative ring satisfying the field axioms

字段

From 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 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.

der

Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”)

cog

Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”)


field

(transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.

The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.

(intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.

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.

2012 August 23, Alasdair Lamont, “Hearts 0-1 Liverpool”, in BBC Sport:

(transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.

She will field questions immediately after her presentation.

He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.

(transitive) To execute research (in the field).

to field a new land-mine detector

(transitive, military) To deploy in the field.

en-verb

field (third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)

fields (present singular third-person)
fielding (participle present)
fielded (participle past)
fielded (past)

bat

antonym(s) of “be the team throwing and catching the ball”

hrát v poli

to be the team catching and throwing the ball

Field in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)