Word: field Part of Speech: noun Etymology: From Middle English feeld, feld (“field”), from Old English feld (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut). Cognates Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fial, fälj (“field”), Saterland Frisian Fäild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German and Luxembourgish Feld (“field”), Vilamovian fald (“field”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk felt (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”), Finnish pelto (“field”), Asturian and Leonese platu (“plate”), Aragonese and Spanish plato (“plate”), Catalan plat (“plate”), French plat (“dish”), Galician, Mirandese, and Portuguese prato (“plate”), Italian piatto (“plate”), Latin *plattus (“flattened”), Greek πλατύς (platýs, “wide, broad”). Doublet of plate. Related also to Middle English flat (“flat”), Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at flat, fold. Not related to English felt. Pronunciation: /ˈfi(ː)ld/, [ˈfɪi̯ɫd], /ˈfi(ː)ʊ̯d/, [ˈfɪi̯ʊd] 1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country. Example: There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field. 2. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country. Labels: plural-normally Example: 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. Example: 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. 3. A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier. Example: There were some cows grazing in a field. Example: A crop circle was made in a corn field. 4. A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier. 5. A region containing a particular mineral. Example: an oil field; a gold field 6. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways. 7. A place where competitive matches are carried out. Example: Tarry, sweet soul, for mine; then fly abreast, As in this glorious and well-foughten field We kept together in our chivalry! Example: […] 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! 8. A place where competitive matches are carried out. Example: soccer field Example: Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked. 9. A place where competitive matches are carried out. Labels: obsolete 10. A place where competitive matches are carried out. 11. A place where competitive matches are carried out. 12. A place where competitive matches are carried out. Example: 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. 13. A place where competitive matches are carried out. Labels: metonymically Example: This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field. 14. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. Example: magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field 15. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. Example: field of view 16. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. Example: The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture. Example: Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists. 17. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. Example: 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. Example: He was an expert in the field of Chinese history. 18. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. Example: 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. Example: 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. 19. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. Example: The set of rational numbers, #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;, is the prototypical field. Example: 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.) 20. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. Example: The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain. 21. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. 22. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. 23. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. Example: The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and shipping address. Example: 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. 24. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. 25. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. Example: 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. 26. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors. 27. Archaic form of fielder. Labels: alt-of, archaic Example: 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.