Idioms for field
Origin of field
before 1000; Middle English, Old English
feld; cognate with German
Feld
OTHER WORDS FROM field
mis·field, verb un·field·ed, adjectiveWords nearby field
fidus achates,
fie,
fiedler,
fief,
fiefdom,
field,
field ambulance,
field army,
field artillery,
field battery,
field bed
Definition for field (2 of 2)
Field
[ feeld ]
/ fild /
noun
Example sentences from the Web for field
British Dictionary definitions for field (1 of 2)
field
/ (fiːld) /
noun
verb
Word Origin for field
Old English
feld; related to Old Saxon, Old High German
feld, Old English
fold earth, Greek
platus broad
British Dictionary definitions for field (2 of 2)
Field
/ (fiːld) /
noun
John . 1782–1837, Irish composer and pianist, lived in Russia from 1803: invented the nocturne
Scientific definitions for field
field
[ fēld ]
A distribution in a region of space of the strength and direction of a force, such as the electrostatic force near an electrically charged object, that would act on a body at any given point in that region. See also electric field magnetic field.
The region whose image is visible to the eye or accessible to an optical instrument.
A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition, that the set is a group under addition, and that the elements with the exception of the additive identity (0) form a group under multiplication. The set of all rational numbers is a field.
- In a database, a space for a single item of information contained in a record.
- An interface element in a graphical user interface that accepts the input of text.
Idioms and Phrases with field
field