Field vs Spot - What's the difference?
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A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)
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, chapter=5, title= The open country near or belonging to a town or city—usually used in plural.
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, passage=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.}}
A physical phenomenon, such as force, potential, or fluid velocity, that pervades a region.
(senseid)A course of study or domain of knowledge or practice.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-10, author=Audrey Garric
, volume=188, issue=22, page=30, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= An area that can be seen at a given time.
(senseid)A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
An area reserved for playing a game.
A realm of practical, direct, or natural operation, contrasting with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
(senseid)(label) A commutative ring with identity for which every non element has a multiplicative inverse.
(label) A region containing a particular mineral.
(label) The background of the shield.
(label) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value.
A component of a database record in which a single unit of information is stored.
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of characters.
The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
(label) The outfield.
An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
* (1800-1859)
All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
(sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
(baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
(sports) To place a team in (a game).
* {{quote-news
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, date=August 23
, author=Alasdair Lamont
, title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool
, work=BBC Sport
To answer; to address.
To defeat.
A round or irregular patch on the surface of a thing having a different color, texture etc. and generally round in shape.
A stain or disfiguring mark.
A pimple, papule or pustule.
A small, unspecified amount or quantity.
(slang, US) A bill of five-dollar or ten-dollar denomination in dollars.
A location or area.
* Milton
* Wordsworth
* 2011 , Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/15210221.stm]
A parking space.
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(sports) An official determination of placement.
A bright lamp; a spotlight.
(US, advertising) A brief advertisement or program segment on television.
Difficult situation; predicament
(gymnastics, dance, weightlifting) One who spots (supports or assists a maneuver, or is prepared to assist if safety dictates); a spotter
(soccer) penalty spot
* {{quote-news
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, date=January 8
, author=Chris Bevan
, title=Arsenal 1 - 1 Leeds
, work=BBC
The act of spotting or noticing something.
A variety of the common domestic pigeon, so called from a spot on its head just above the beak.
A food fish (Liostomus xanthurus ) of the Atlantic coast of the United States, with a black spot behind the shoulders and fifteen oblique dark bars on the sides.
The southern redfish, or red horse, which has a spot on each side at the base of the tail.
(in the plural, brokers' slang, dated) Commodities, such as merchandise and cotton, sold for immediate delivery.
An autosoliton.
To see, find; to pick out, notice, locate, distinguish or identify
(finance) To loan a small amount of money to someone.
(ambitransitive) To stain; to leave a spot (on).
To remove, or attempt to remove, a stain.
(gymnastics, dance, weightlifting, climbing) To support or assist a maneuver, or to be prepared to assist if safety dictates.
(dance) To keep the head and eyes pointing in a single direction while turning.
To stain; to blemish; to taint; to disgrace; to tarnish, as reputation.
* Sir Philip Sidney
* Beaumont and Fletcher
To cut or chip (timber) in preparation for hewing.
Field is a related term of spot.
As a proper noun field
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English
Noun
(en noun)- fields which promise corn and wine
F. E. Penny
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Urban canopies let nature bloom, passage=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 .}}
- this glorious and well-foughten field
- What though the field be lost?
- afforded a clear field for moral experiments
Synonyms
* (course of study or domain of knowledge) area, domain, sphere, realm * (area reserved for playing a game) course (for golf), court (for racquet sports), ground, pitchHypernyms
* (algebra) Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ringHyponyms
* (algebra) ordered field, Pythagorean fieldDerived terms
* center field * fieldwork * field marshal * field theory * finite field * field seam * infield * left field * number field * outfield * play the field * quadratic field * right field * scalar field * semantic field * splitting field * vector fieldUsage notes
In the mathematical sense, some languages, such as French, use a term that literally means "body". This denotes a division ring or skew field, not necessarily commutative. If it is clear from context that the quaternions and similar division rings are irrelevant, or that all division rings being considered are finite and therefore fields, this difference is ignored.Verb
(en verb)- The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
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- The away team field ed two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
- She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
Synonyms
* * * address, answer, deal with, respond toAntonyms
* (be the team throwing and catching the ball) batSee also
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* [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=field&searchmode=none] - Etymology of "field"spot
English
Noun
(en noun)- The leopard is noted for the spots of color in its fur.
- I have tried everything, and I can’t get this spot out.
- That morning, I saw that a spot had come up on my chin.
- I think she's got chicken pox; she's covered in spots .
- Would you like to come round on Sunday for a spot of lunch?
- Here's the twenty bucks I owe you, a ten spot''' and two five '''spots .
- I like to eat lunch in a pleasant spot outside.
- For our anniversary we went back to the same spot where we first met.
- That spot to which I point is Paradise.
- "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! / But something ails it now: the spot is cursed."
- Yachvilli made it 6-0 with a second sweet strike from 45 metres after Matt Stevens was penalised for collapsing a scrum, and then slid another penalty just wide from the same spot .
- The fans were very unhappy with the referee's spot of the ball.
- Did you see the spot on the news about the shoelace factory?
- She was in a real spot when she ran into her separated husband while on a date.
citation, page= , passage=The Gunners dominated for long periods but, against the run of play, Denilson fouled Max Gradel and Robert Snodgrass put Leeds ahead from the spot . }}
- - You've misspelled "terrapin" here.
- ''- Whoops. Good spot .
Derived terms
* on the spot * put someone on the spot * sitspot * shot spot * spot check * spot color / spot colour * spot market * spot on * spot remover * spotty * X marks the spotVerb
(spott)- Try to spot the differences between these two pictures.
- I’ll spot you ten dollars for lunch.
- Hard water will spot if it is left on a surface.
- a garment spotted with mould
- I spotted the carpet where the child dropped spaghetti.
- I can’t do a back handspring unless somebody spots me.
- Most figure skaters do not spot their turns like dancers do.
- My virgin life no spotted thoughts shall stain.
- If ever I shall close these eyes but once, / May I live spotted for my perjury.