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Definition: Field |
FieldNoun1. A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat". 2. A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields". 3. 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". 4. A branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings". 5. The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it. 6. A particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field". 7. A particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit". 8. A piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field". 9. Extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth". 10. : (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". 11. : a region in which military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action". 12. : (horse racing) all of the horses in a particular race. 13. : all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event. 14. : a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa". 15. : (computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information. 16. : the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument). 17. : a place where planes take off and land. Verb1. Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket. 2. Play as a fielder, in baseball or cricket. 3. Answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "field" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Field |
Aerospace | A region of space within which each point has a definite value of a given physical or mathematical quantity has some definite value.One may speak of a gravitation field, magnetic field, electric field, pressure field, temperature field, etc. If the quantity specified at each point is a vector quantity, the field is said to be a vector field. (references) |
Bible | Field (Heb. sadeh), a cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture (Gen. 29:2; 31:4; 34:7), or tillage (Gen. 37:7; 47:24). It is also applied to woodland (Ps. 132:6) or mountain top (Judg. 9:32, 36; 2 Sam. 1:21). It denotes sometimes a cultivated region as opposed to the wilderness (Gen. 33:19; 36:35). Unwalled villages or scattered houses are spoken of as "in the fields" (Deut. 28:3, 16; Lev. 25:31; Mark 6:36, 56). The "open field" is a place remote from a house (Gen. 4:8; Lev. 14:7, 53; 17:5). Cultivated land of any extent was called a field (Gen. 23:13, 17; 41:8; Lev. 27:16; Ruth 4:5; Neh. 12:29). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of dead corn or stubble fields, indicates to the dreamer dreary prospects for the future. To see green fields, or ripe with corn or grain, denotes great abundance and happiness to all classes. To see newly plowed fields, denotes early rise in wealth and fortunate advancement to places of honor. To see fields freshly harrowed and ready for planting, denotes that you are soon to benefit by your endeavor and long struggles for success. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Electrical Engineering | A region of space in which some physical phenomenon is representable by a vector. Source: European Union. (references) |
Fine Arts | With a lens, the extent of the scene in front of it that it is capable of reproducing as an acceptably sharp image. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The size of the area to be photographed. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Literature | Field (Anglo-Saxon, feld.) In agricultural parlance, a field is a portion of land belonging to a farm. In huntsman's language, it means all the riders. In heraldry, it means the entire surface of the shield. In military language, it means a battle; the place where a battle is fought, or is about to be fought; a campaign. In sportsmen's language it means all the horses of any one race. Against the field. In horse-racing, to bet against the field means to back a particular horse against all the rest entered for the race. In the field. A competitor for a prize. A term in horse-races, as, so-and-so was in the field. Also in war, as, the French were in the field already. Master of the field. In military parlance, means the conqueror in a battle. To keep back the field, is to keep back the riders. To take the field. To move the army preparatory to battle. To win the field. To win the battle. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Mathematics | The physical quantity defined at all points in a region. By extension, the region in which the distribution exists. Source: European Union. (references) |
Mining | A. A region or area that possesses or is characterized by a particular mineral resource; e.g., goldfield, coalfield b. A broad term for the area, away from the laboratory and esp. outdoors, in which a geologist makes observations and collects data, rock and mineral samples, and fossils c. That space in which an effect, e.g., gravity or magnetism, occurs and is measurable. It is characterized by continuity; i.e., there is a value associated with every location within the space d. A section of land containing, yielding, or worked for a natural resource; e.g., goldfield, coalfield i.e., there is a value associated with every location within the space. (references) |
Physics | In monochrome television, a subdivision of the complete television picture consisting of a series of sequentially scanned lines spaced equidistantly over the whole picture area, the repetition rate of the series being a multiple of that for the picture. Source: European Union. (references) |
Post & Telecom | A set of scanning lines, which, when interlaced with other such sets, construct the complete picture. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A location in a record in which a particular type of data is stored. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Science | The set of influences (electricity, magnetism, gravity) that extend throughout space. (references) |
Space | The region in which a particular type of force can be observed; depending on the force, one can thus speak of a gravity field, magnetic field, electric field (or when the two are linked by fast oscillations, electromagnetic field) and nuclear field. The laws of physics suggest that fields represent more than a possibility of force being observed, but that they can also transmit energy and momentum, e.g. a light wave is a phenomenon completely defined by fields. For that reason a field is often viewed as a space which was modified by the sources of the force which the field represents. (references) |
| An area in which a gravitational, electric, or magnetic force occurs. (references) | |
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In physics, an electric field is the effect produced by the existence of an electric charge, such as an electron, ion, or proton, in the volume of space or medium that surrounds it.
The mathematical definition of the electric field is developed as follows. Coulomb's Law gives the force between two point charges as
This was known empirically (note - the equation is given for SI units). Suppose we take one of the charges to be fixed, and the other one to be a moveable "test charge". We note that according to this equation, the force on the test object is proportional to its charge. We define the electric field to be the proportionality constant between charge and force:
Hence, electric field is dependent on position. A field, in this context, means a vector which is dependent on another vector - a vector valued vector function.
Another empirically known fact was that in the presence of a more complicated fixed object, the electric forces from the constituent charges can simply be added together. Hence, the electric field due to a composite object becomes
where E1, E2, etc. are the electric fields due to individual charges making up the object. This is what is meant when it is said that the electric field is "linear". For a continuous distribution of charge (rather than discrete points), we can define the electric field to be:
where ρ is the charge density - i.e. charge per unit volume.
See Maxwell's equations for the full set of equations governing electric fields.
See also electromagnetism, magnetism
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In abstract algebra, a field is an algebraic structure in which the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division (except division by zero) may be performed and the associative, commutative, and distributive rules hold, which are familiar from the arithmetic of ordinary numbers.Fields are important objects of study in algebra since they provide the proper generalization of number domains, such as the sets of rational numbers, real numbers, or complex numbers. Fields used to be called rational domains.
The concept of a field is of use, for example, in defining vectorss and matrices, two structures in linear algebra whose components can be elements of an arbitrary field. Galois theory studies the symmetry of equations by investigating the ways in which fields can be contained in each other. See Field theory (mathematics) for more.
Definition
A field is a commutative ring (F, +, *) such that 0 does not equal 1 and all elements of F except 0 have a multiplicative inverse.Spelled out, this means that the following hold:
; Closure of F under + and * : For all a,b belonging to F, both a + b and a * b belong to F (or more formally, + and * are binary operations on F);
; Both + and * are associative : For all a,b,c in F, a + (b + c) = (a + b) + c and a * (b * c) = (a * b) * c.
; Both + and * are commutative : For all a,b belonging to F, a + b = b + a and a * b = b * a.
; The operation * is distributive over the operation + : For all a,b,c, belonging to F, a * (b + c) = (a * b) + (a * c).
; Existence of an additive identity : There exists an element 0 in F, such that for all a belonging to F, a + 0 = a.
; Existence of a multiplicative identity : There exists an element 1 in F different from 0, such that for all a belonging to F, a * 1 = a.
; Existence of additive inverses : For every a belonging to F, there exists an element -a in F, such that a + (-a) = 0.
; Existence of multiplicative inverses : For every a ≠ 0 belonging to F, there exists an element a-1 in F, such that a * a-1 = 1.
The requirement 0 ≠ 1 ensures that the set which only contains a single zero is not a field. Directly from the axioms, one may show that (F, +) and (F - {0}, *) are commutative groups and that therefore (see elementary group theory) the additive inverse -a and the multiplicative inverse a-1 are uniquely determined by a. Furthermore, the multiplicative inverse of a product is equal to the product of the inverses:
provided both a and b are non-zero. Other useful rules include
- (a*b)-1 = a-1 * b-1
and more generally
- -a = (-1) * a
as well as
- -(a * b) = (-a) * b = a * (-b)
all rules familiar from elementary arithmetic.
- a * 0 = 0,
Examples of Fields
- The rational numbers Q = { a/b | a, b in Z, b ≠ 0 } where Z is the set of integers.
- The real numbers R .
- The complex numbers C.
- The smallest field has only two elements: 0 and 1. It is sometimes denoted by F2 or Z2 and can be defined by the two tables
+ 0 1 * 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 0 1
- It has important uses in computer science, especially in cryptography and coding theory.
- More generally: if q > 1 is a power of a prime number, then there exists (up to isomorphism) exactly one finite field with q elements. No other finite fields exist. For instance, for a prime number p, the set of integers modulo p is a finite field with p elements: this is often written as Zp = {0,1,...,p-1} where the operations are defined by performing the operation in Z, dividing by p and taking the remainder, see modular arithmetic.
- The real numbers contain several interesting fields: the real algebraic numbers, the computable numbers, and the definable numbers.
- The complex numbers contain the field of algebraic numbers, the algebraic closure of Q.
- The rational numbers can be extended to the fields of p-adic numbers for every prime number p.
- Let E and F be two fields with E a subfield of F (i.e., a subset of F containing 0 and 1, closed under the operations + and * of F and with its own operations defined by restriction). Let x be an element of F not in E. Then E(x) is defined to be the smallest subfield of F containing E and x. For instance, Q(i) is the subfield of the complex numbers C consisting of all numbers of the form a+bi where both a and b are rational numbers.
- For a given field F, the set F(X) of rational functions in the variable X with coefficients in F is a field; this is defined as the set of quotients of polynomials with coefficients in F.
- If F is a field, and p(X) is an irreducible polynomial in the polynomial ring F[X], then the quotient F[X]/<p(X)> is a field with a subfield isomorphic to F. For instance, R[X]/<X2+1> is a field (in fact, it is isomorphic to the field of complex numbers).
- When F is a field, the set F((X)) of formal Laurent series over F is a field.
- If V is an algebraic variety over F, then the rational functions V → F form a field, the function field of V.
- If S is a Riemann surface, then the meromorphic functions S → C form a field.
- If I is an index set, U is an ultrafilter on I, and Fi is a field for every i in I, the ultraproduct of the Fi (using U) is a field.
- The hyperreal numbers form a field containing the reals, plus infinitesimal and infinite numbers.
- The surreal numbers form a field containing the reals, except for the fact that they are a proper class, not a set. The set of all surreal numbers with birthday smaller than some inaccessible cardinal number form a field.
- The nimbers form a field, again except for the fact that they are a proper class. The set of nimbers with birthday smaller than 2^(2^n), the nimbers with birthday smaller than any infinite cardinal are all examples of fields.
Some first theorems
- The set of non-zero elements of a field F (typically denoted by F×) is an abelian group under multiplication. Every finite subgroup of F× is cyclic.
- The characteristic of any field is zero or a prime number. (The characteristic is defined as the smallest positive integer n such that n·1 = 0, or zero if no such n exists; here n·1 stands for n summands 1 + 1 + 1 + ... + 1.)
- The number of elements in finite fields is a prime power.
- As a ring, a field has no ideals except {0} and itself.
- For every field F, there exists a (up to isomorphism) unique field G which contains F, is algebraic over F, and is algebraically closed. G is called the algebraic closure or F.
Constructing new fields from given ones
- If a subset E of a field (F,+,*) together with the operations *,+ restricted to E is itself a field, then it is called a subfield of F. Such a subfield has the same 0 and 1 as F.
- The polynomial field F(x) is the field of fractions of polynomials in x with coefficients in F.
- An algebraic extension of a field F is the smallest field containing F and a root of an irreducible polynomial p(x) in F[x]. Alternatively, it is identical to the factor ring F[x]/<p(x)>, where <p(x)> is the ideal generated by p(x).
History
See Field theory (mathematics).
Related topics
See Glossary of field theory for more definitions in field theory.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Field (mathematics)."
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In physics, a field is an assignment of a quantity to every point in space. We distinguish between scalar fields (such as the temperature at any given point) and vector fields (such as the electric or magnetic force at any given point).
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Field (physics)."
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Field is a town (~300 people) located in southeastern British Columbia, Canada within the confines of Yoho National Park. Field was established in 1885 during the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway. Field is 27 km west of Lake Louise along the Trans-Canada Highway, the only access to Field. The visitor centre for Yoho NP is located in Field where those wishing to visit the area around Lake O'Hara can obtain a camping permit.There are many hiking opportunities near the town including:
- Burgess Pass - 6.6 km one way, provides views of Emerald Lake and the Wapta Icefields.
- Emerald Lake - 11 km from Field on a paved road. A 5 km lakeshore trail circles the entire lake.
- Sherbrooke Lake - 3.1 km one way
- Twin Falls - 9th highest waterfall in Canada
- Wapta Falls - a short 2.4 km round trip trail to the waterfall that produces the largest volume of water in Yoho NP.
Sherbrooke Lake from Paget Peak
Scrambling options include: Mount Burgess (2599m), Mount Field (2635m), Mount Stephen (3199m) and Paget Peak (2560m).
There are several points of interests nearby including:
- Takakkaw Falls - second highest waterfall in Canada
- Burgess Shale - fossil beds (restricted access)
- Natural Bridge - Kicking Horse River has carved a natural bridge through solid rock.
- Spiral Tunnels Exhibit - railway tunnel carved through Cathedral Mountain.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Field, British Columbia."
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Lacrosse is a summer team sport of Native American origin played with netted sticks.The game is popular in Canada (chiefly in British Columbia and southern Ontario) and in New England and other areas in the northeast United States. The colleges, high schools and "pee wee" leagues in the United States support many teams. Princeton, Syracuse, and Johns Hopkins have dominated in the Division I collegiate ranks, while the American teams have won recent World Championships for both men and women. The Iroquois nation is also allowed to enter a team in the World Championships.
The game is also played in Australia, and in England. In 1994 lacrosse became the official national summer sport of Canada.
The Game
Outdoor men's lacrosse involves two teams of 10 players each competing by projecting a small solid rubber ball into the opposing team's goal. The field of play is approximately 110 yards (100 m) long and 40 yards (37 m) wide. The goals are 6 feet (1.8 m) by 6 feet and contain a mesh netting similar to an ice hockey goal.
Diagram of a men's lacrosse field. Larger Version
Players line up based on 3 offensive players called "attackmen", 3 "midfielders", 3 "defensemen", and 1 goaltender. Each player carries a stick (the French settlers on seeing the Native Americans using the stick called it la crossier (crozier) hence the name "Lacrosse") of varying length from 40 inches (1.0 m) to 72 inches (1.8 m). The sticks have a metal shaft and a plastic head with a string and leather basket called the "pocket".
Players scoop the ball off the ground and hurl the ball in the air to other players. Players are allowed to run carrying the ball. There are a number of complicating rules for positioning and offsides of players, but, in general, to the uninitiated, think a combination of soccer and hockey. Games consist of 4 fifteen minute periods. The scores of games typically consist of a total of twenty or so goals being scored.
Canadians most commonly play box lacrosse, an indoor version of the game played by teams of six players on ice hockey rinks from which the ice has been removed; the enclosed playing area is called the box, in contrast to the open playing field of the traditional game. This version of the game was introduced in the 1930s to promote business for hockey arenas, and within a few years had almost entirely supplanted field lacrosse in Canada.
In box lacrosse the goal is smaller (4' X 4') than in outdoor lacrosse (and the goaltender usually bigger). The attacking team must take a shot on goal within 30 seconds of gaining possession of the ball, and play is rougher than in the field game (see below).
A national senior men's lacrosse championship (the Mann Cup) has been awarded in Canada since 1901. It has been played under box lacrosse rules since 1935. A junior men's championship (the Minto Cup) has been awarded since 1937 (the Minto Cup was also awarded to a senior men's champion from 1901 to 1934). Since 1908 all national senior and junior men's champions have come from either Ontario or British Columbia. The Canadian Lacrosse Association also holds tournaments to determine national junior and senior women's box lacrosse champions and junior and senior men's and women's field lacrosse champions.
Indoor lacrosse is a less violent version of box lacrosse played professionally during the winter not only in regions where summer lacrosse is popular but also in regions where lacrosse is rarely played in summer. Players may use only sticks with hollow metal shafts (box lacrosse permits solid wooden sticks) and may not crosscheck (crosschecking – hitting another player with the stick with one's hands apart on the shaft – is legal, within limits, in box lacrosse). These two differences encourage a running rather than a passing game. The inaugural World Indoor Lacrosse Championships, won by Canada, were held in 2003.
See: National Lacrosse League Box lacrosse Indoor lacrosse Major League Lacrosse
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A vector field associates a vector to every point in space; the vectors may change from point to point. Vector fields are often used in physics, for instance to indicate the speed and direction of a moving fluid throughout space, or the strength and direction of some force, such as the magnetic or gravitational force, as it changes from point to point.In the rigorous mathematical treatment, vector fields are defined on manifolds: a vector field is a section of the manifold's tangent bundle. While the underlying manifold is often the 2-dimensional or 3-dimensional Euclidean space (in which case the tangent space is equal to the same Euclidean space), other manifolds are also useful: describing the wind distribution on the surface of the Earth for instance requires a vector field on the sphere, a 2-dimensional manifold; the spacetime of relativity is a 4-dimensional manifold; and phase spaces of complicated physical systems are often modeled as high dimensional manifolds with a vector field indicating how the system changes over time.
Vector fields should be compared to scalar fields, which associate a number or scalar to every point in space (or every point of some manifold).
The gradient of a scalar field is a vector field. The derivatives of a vector field using a scalar product or a cross product, resulting in a scalar field or another vector field, are called the divergence and curl respectively.
Common vector fields
- A vector field for the movement of air on Earth will associate for every point on the surface of the Earth a vector with the wind speed and direction for that point. This can be drawn using arrows to represent the wind; the length (magnitude) of the arrow will be an indication of the wind speed. A "high" on the usual barometric pressure map would then act as a source (arrows pointing away), and a "low" would be a sink (arrows pointing towards), since air tends to move from high pressure areas to low pressure areas.
- Velocity field of a moving fluid. In this case, a velocity vector is associated to each point in the fluid. In wind tunnels, the fieldlines can be revealed using smoke.
- Magnetic fields. The fieldlines can be revealed using small iron filings.
- Maxwell's equations allow us to use a given set of initial conditions to deduce, for every point in Euclidean space, a magnitude and direction for the force experienced by a charged test particle at that point; the resulting vector field is the electromagnetic field.
Sources
- 3D Magnetic field viewer
- Vector fields and field lines
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| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
FIELD | English | First Integrated Experiment for Lunar Development | Geography |
| FI | English | Field Ionization | N/A |
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Synonyms: FieldSynonyms: airfield (n), area (n), arena (n), athletic field (n), bailiwick (n), battlefield (n), battleground (n), branch of knowledge (n), champaign (n), discipline (n), domain (n), field of battle (n), field of force (n), field of operation (n), field of study (n), field of view (n), flying field (n), force field (n), landing field (n), line of business (n), orbit (n), plain (n), playing area (n), playing field (n), sphere (n), study (n), subject (n), subject area (n), subject field (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Arena | Noun: arena, field, platform; scene of action, theater; walk, course; hustings; stare, boards; (playhouse); amphitheater; Coliseum, Colosseum; Flavian amphitheater, hippodrome, circus, race course, corso, turf, bear garden, playground, gymnasium, palestra, ring, lists; tiltyard, tilting ground; Campus Martins, Champ de Allars; campus. |
Business | Part, role, cue; province, function, lookout, department, capacity, sphere, orb, field, line; walk, walk of life; beat, round, routine; race, career. |
Plain | Meadow, mead, haugh, pasturage, park, field, lawn, green, plat, plot, grassplat, greensward, sward, turf, sod, heather; lea, ley, lay; grounds; maidan, agostadero. |
Region | Noun: region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle; reservation, pale; (limit); compartment, department; clearing. |
Arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march; patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court; enclave, reserve, preserve; street; (abode). | |
Space | Noun: space, extension, extent, superficial extent, expanse, stretch, hyperspace; room, scope, range, field, way, expansion, compass, sweep, swing, spread. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Field |
| English words defined with "field": ball field, bit field ♦ center field, corn field ♦ electric field, electrostatic field ♦ field artillery, field coil, field day, field emission, field event, field game, field glass, field guide, field gun, field hockey, field hockey ball, field intensity, Field lens, field line, field magnet, field of view, Field of vision, Field officer's court, field pea, field ration, field strength, field tent, field winding, field work, football field ♦ grain field, gravitational field ♦ left field ♦ paddy field, Potter's field ♦ radiation field, right field ♦ scalar field, solar magnetic field ♦ take the field, To bet on the field, To take the field, track and field ♦ War field, wheat field. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "field": Veldt. (references) |
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Screenplays | He conducted a parent teacher interview yesterday and organized a field trip to a French bread factory in Trenton (Catch Me If You Can; writing credit: Frank Abagnale Jr.; Stan Redding) Ha ha ha ha. No, really, what field are you in (Meet the Parents; writing credit: Greg Glienna; Mary Ruth Clarke) And the field agents get older and older (In the Line of Fire; writing credit: Jeff Maguire) I am essential to the theatre - as ants to a picnic, as the boll weavil to a cotton field. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) Where's your field box (The Bourne Identity; writing credit: Tony Gilroy) | |
Lyrics | Well it's set way back in the middle of a field, (Love Shack; performing artist: B-52'S) Her eyes shine like diamonds in a field of snow (Pass You By; performing artist: Boyz II Men) I can plow a field all day long (A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Verison); performing artist: Chad Brock) You always play the field (Upside Down; performing artist: Diana Ross) Looking out on a vacant field (Long Time Gone; performing artist: Dixie Chicks) | |
Clever | How to act insane: In the memo field of all your checks, write "FOR SEXUAL FAVORS. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Field Trip (1996) A Field of Honor (1973) Sexual Meditation: Open Field (1972) Field (1970) The Field Day (1963) | |
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 | Members of the first National Advisory Cancer Council at the groundbreaking ceremonies at the NCI's building 6 in June, 1938. (Left to right) Francis Wood, C.C Little, James Ewing, Arthur Compton, James Conant, Thomas Parran, and Ludwig Hektoen. This new building, erected on land donated by Mrs. Luke J. Wilson was the fourth to be constructed in the complex that is now the National Institutes of Health. The structure was unique in that year of 1939, with its physical equipment and facilities designed solely for scientific research in a specialized field of science. Building 6 was to house the National Cancer Institute, the first of the nine specialized institutes that would comprise NIH. See also ar003810. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Shown is the senior staff of the office field investigation of cancer, PHS. Included is (l-r) Floyd Turner, Howard Andervont, Egon Lorens, Thomas White, Murray Shear, Jonathan Hartwell, Joseph Leiter and Harold Stewart in the summer of 1937. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | The compound microscope on the right is used to identify mounted specimens, while the stereoscopic microscope, along with chemicals on the left is used to observe living larvae captured from the field. Credit: CDC. |  | With slight magnification, the main body divisions and gross morphological characteristics of mosquito larvae can be observed. In this manner, scientists can quickly identify larvae in the field, rather than returning to the laboratory. Credit: CDC. |
 | "Velocity Field for a Stream" by Tom Tredon. Use DPGraph's Scrollbar to vary A (one river bank), B (the other river bank), or C (the speed of the stream). Click on Edit inside DPGraph for more info. |  | "X Component of the Quadrupole Electric Field in the Z Plane" (movie) by Сергей Бирюков (Sergei Biryukov). |
 | Republic F-84F on the Ramp at Moffett Field. Credit: NASA. |  | The Dirigible Hanger at Moffett Field. Credit: NASA. |
 | This Hubble telescope photo mosaic shows a field of distant galaxies. ... Credit: NASA. |  | Astronomers analyzing the Hubble Deep Field — the faintest view of the universe taken ... Credit: NASA. |
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| "Kerala Tea Field" by Sam Dhargalkar Commentary: "Workers in a plantation picking tea leaves. Taken in November 2002 in the mountains of Kerala - a southern state in India." | "Field of flowers" by lolly99 Commentary: "Field of yellow flowers, roses." |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Gun going off in the distance in an open field. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Arthur Schopenhauer | Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world. |
Author Unknown | You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind. |
Eugene Field | A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet. |
Henry Mencken | Time is a great legalizer, even in the field of morals. |
John Milton | The serpent subtlest beast of all the field. |
Louis Pasteur | In the field of observation, chance favors only the prepared minds. |
Marshall Field | Right or wrong, the customer is always right. |
| Goodwill is the one and only asset that competition cannot undersell or destroy. | |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. (The Gettysburg Address) |
Treaty of Versailles | 1919 | The following units may each have their own depot: An Infantry regiment; A Cavalry regiment; A regiment of Field Artillery; A battalion of Pioneers. (reference) |
Brown v. Board of Education | 1954 | We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of "separate but equal" has no place. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Sylvie and Bruno Concluded | Carroll, Lewis | When we overtook him he was climbing a gate, and was gazing earnestly into the field, where a horse, a cow, and a kid were browsing amicably together |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had recipes for clearing a field of rust, of vetches, of moles, of doggrass, and all the parasitic herbs which live upon the grain |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A field of stiff weeds and thistles and tufted nettlebunches |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | Here pitch our tent, even here in Bosworth field. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | Tom Joad and the preacher walked quickly along a road that was only wheel tracks and beaten caterpillar tracks through a cotton field. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I fell into a high road, for so I took it to be, though it served to the inhabitants only as a footpath through a field of barley |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | There is no rawness nor imperfection in its edge there, as where the axe has cleared a part, or a cultivated field abuts on it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | To narrow the search, you can also select the "Title" field. (references) | |
Persons working with the plague bacterium in the laboratory or in the field. (references) | ||
Defective vision or blindness that impairs half of the normal field of vision. (references) | ||
Business | Wind turbines are a rapidly growing field. (references) | |
A special opportunity lies in the field of IT training. (references) | ||
OKIOC plans to select a sole operator for the field this November. (references) | ||
Children | Egypt | Many of the resources for children's welfare are provided by international donors, especially in the field of child immunization. (references) |
Turkmenistan | Wages for teachers and administrators are in arrears in many districts; this, coupled with the fact that salaries are low, has caused some teachers to leave the field and seek jobs in the private sector, increasing the ratio of pupils to teachers. (references) | |
Israel and the occupied territories | NGO's in the field of children's welfare concentrate their efforts on public education, on promoting the concept of children's rights as citizens, on improving legal representation for minors, and on combating the problems of poverty, which are most notable for the Bedouin children of the south. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Colombia | Any legal organization is free to associate with international groups in its field. (references) |
Tanzania | They have 6 months to submit lists of at least 200 members in 10 of the country's 25 regions, including 2 regions in Zanzibar, in order to secure full registration and to be eligible to field candidates for election. (references) | |
Cote d'Ivoire | The UNHCR announced plans to close three field offices in the western part of the country; however, the Government protested the decision, and the UNHCR decided to retain two field offices: one in Guiglo and one in Tabou. (references) | |
Economic History | Switzerland | Flag: Square, white cross on red field. (references) |
Bahrain | Note: Includes oil from the Abu Saafa Field. (references) | |
Turkey | Flag: White crescent and star on a red field. (references) | |
Human Rights | Congo | ICRC field operations in the Ituri district still were suspended at year's end. (references) |
Namibia | Both the NSHR and the Namibia Institute for Democracy (NID) maintained field offices in the Kavango region. (references) | |
Sri Lanka | The HRC also has been criticized for micromanaging the activities of field offices, which are equipped poorly. (references) | |
Minorities | Albania | The Soros Foundation supported various initiatives sponsored by the Association Amaro Drom, particularly in the field of education. (references) |
Political Economy | GREECE | Intellectual property appears to be adequately protected in the field of patents. (references) |
Austria | The new government says that one of its priorities is to reduce political influence in this field. (references) | |
Political Rights | Seychelles | Only the chief opposition party, the SNP, chose to contest the election; the Democratic Party did not field a candidate. (references) |
Nicaragua | The latter provision greatly reduced the number of parties eligible to field candidates in the November general elections--only 3 national parties competed in the elections, compared with over 20 parties in the 1996 elections. (references) | |
Maldives | From a field of five candidates, President Gayoom was nominated by the Majlis and was confirmed by referendum for a fifth 5-year term in 1998. Observers from the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation found the referendum to be free and fair. (references) | |
Trade | Qatar | The development of Qatar's North Field dominates all projects in Qatar. (references) |
Netherlands | U.S. financial services providers in the Netherlands play on a level legal field. (references) | |
Austria | The Austrian Government has neither a countertrade policy nor specific regulations in this field. (references) | |
Travel | Bolivia | Visiting U.S. travelers will find that their Bolivian counterparts for the most part are adept and sophisticated in their respective field of interest. (references) |
Italy | A person seeking to work in Italy in an independent or self-employed capacity files an application directly with the Italian Embassy or Consulate along with needed credentials demonstrating experience in the field of work. (references) | |
Women | Angola | Some women hold senior positions in the armed forces (primarily in the medical field) and civil service, but women mostly are relegated to low-level positions in state-run industries and in the small private sector. (references) |
Worker Rights | Syria | Large companies, such as oil field contractors, employ safety engineers. (references) |
China | SAWS has 2,950 employees in 9 departments and 68 field offices around the country. (references) | |
Dominican Republic | Field guards reportedly kept workers' clothes and documents to prevent them from leaving. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SALACITY, n. A certain literary quality frequently observed in popular novels, especially in those written by women and young girls, who give it another name and think that in introducing it they are occupying a neglected field of letters and reaping an overlooked harvest. If they have the misfortune to live long enough they are tormented with a desire to burn their sheaves. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Dennis Miller | When it comes to helping mankind feed the world, the sky is the limit for the cloning and biological engineering field. |
House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner | Absolutely. And there is a disconnect between what the field offices are finding out and the headquarters of the FBI being able to properly connect the dots and put the pieces together. |
Regis Philbin | Here comes challenger. All of center field, coming closer and closer to second base. As challenger reaches second base, in swoops four Navy jets. Right over the stadium, Whoa with a tremendous roar. |
Rush Limbaugh | During that visit, Chirac said, "Iraq is in the process of beginning a coherent nuclear program, and France wants to associate herself with that effort in the field of reactors." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
James Madison | 1809-1817 | Nor is there any country which presents a field where nature invites more the art of man to complete her own work for his accommodation and benefit. |
Franklin Pierce | 1853-1857 | But the vast interests of commerce are common to all mankind, and the advantages of trade and international intercourse must always present a noble field for the moral influence of a great people. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Perhaps now, as we step back from danger, we can together make real progress in this vital field. |
Lyndon B. Johnson | 1963-1969 | Last year, with very little fanfare the Congress and the executive branch moved in that field. |
Gerald Ford | 1974-1977 | What has been achieved in the field of foreign affairs and what can be accomplished by the new administration demonstrate the genius of Americans working together for the common good. |
Jimmy Carter | 1977-1981 | Our international cooperation efforts in the energy field are not limited to crisis management. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | If the United States can trade with other nations on a level playing field, we can out-produce, out-compete, and out-sell anybody, anywhere in the world. |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | Every year, the press has a field day making fun of outrageous examples, a Lawrence Welk Museum, a research grant for Belgian Endive. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now is not the time to walk off the field and forfeit the victory. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Field" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 92.65% of the time. "Field" is used about 14,615 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 92.65% | 13,540 | 674 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.2% | 1,053 | 7,098 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.14% | 20 | 78,262 |
| Total | 100.00% | 14,615 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "field" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Field | Last name | 11,000 | 1,165 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "field". | |||
