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As nouns the difference between field and range

is that field is a land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country while range is a line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.

As verbs the difference between field and range

is that field is (sports) to intercept or catch (a ball) and play it while range is to travel (over) (an area, etc); to roam, wander.

field

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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)
    • fields which promise corn and wine
  • *{{quote-book, year=1927, author= F. E. Penny
    • , chapter=5, title= Pulling the Strings , passage=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 .”}}
  • The open country near or belonging to a town or city—usually used in plural.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8 , 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= 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 .}}
  • An area that can be seen at a given time.
  • (senseid)A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
  • * (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
    • this glorious and well-foughten field
  • * (John Milton) (1608-1674)
    • What though the field be lost?
  • 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)
    • afforded a clear field for moral experiments
  • All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

    • 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, pitch

    Hypernyms

    * (algebra) Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring

    Hyponyms

    * (algebra) ordered field, Pythagorean field

    Derived 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 field

    Usage 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)
  • (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.
    • The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
  • (sports) To place a team in (a game).
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=August 23 , author=Alasdair Lamont , title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=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.}}
    The away team field ed two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
  • To answer; to address.
    • She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
  • To defeat.

    • Synonyms

    * * * address, answer, deal with, respond to

    Antonyms

    * (be the team throwing and catching the ball) bat

    See also

    Statistics

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    Anagrams

    * * *

    References

    * [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=field&searchmode=none] - Etymology of "field"

    range

    English

    (wikipedia range)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A line or series of mountains, buildings, etc.
  • A fireplace; a fire or other cooking apparatus; now specifically, a large cooking stove with many hotplates.
  • * 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
    • Therein an hundred raunges weren pight, / And hundred fornaces all burning bright;
  • * L'Estrange
    • He was bid at his first coming to take off the range , and let down the cinders.
  • Selection, array.
  • * {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion
    • , chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal.}}
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
  • An area for practicing shooting at targets.
  • An area for military training or equipment testing.
  • The distance from a person or sensor to an object, target, emanation, or event.
  • Maximum distance of capability (of a weapon, radio, detector, fuel supply, etc.).
  • An area of open, often unfenced, grazing land.
  • Extent or space taken in by anything excursive; compass or extent of excursion; reach; scope.
  • * (Alexander Pope)
    • Far as creation's ample range extends.
  • * Bishop Fell
    • The range and compass of Hammond's knowledge filled the whole circle of the arts.
  • * Addison
    • A man has not enough range of thought.
  • (mathematics) The set of values (points) which a function can obtain.
  • (statistics) The length of the smallest interval which contains all the data in a sample; the difference between the largest and smallest observations in the sample.
  • (sports, baseball) The defensive area that a player can cover.
  • (music) The scale of all the tones a voice or an instrument can produce.
  • (ecology) The geographical area or zone where a species is normally naturally found.
  • (programming) A sequential list of iterators that are specified by a beginning and ending iterator.
  • An aggregate of individuals in one rank or degree; an order; a class.
  • * Sir M. Hale
    • The next range of beings above him are the immaterial intelligences.
  • (obsolete) The step of a ladder; a rung.
    • (Clarendon)
  • (obsolete, UK, dialect) A bolting sieve to sift meal.
  • A wandering or roving; a going to and fro; an excursion; a ramble; an expedition.
  • * South
    • He may take a range all the world over.
  • (US, historical) In the public land system, a row or line of townships lying between two succession meridian lines six miles apart.
  • The scope of something, the extent which something covers or includes.

    • Synonyms

    * (area for military training) base, training area, training ground * (distance to an object) distance, radius * compass

    Antonyms

    * (values a function can obtain) domain

    Holonyms

    * (values a function can obtain) codomain

    Derived terms

    * (area for practicing shooting) archery range * (area for practicing shooting) firing range * (area for practicing shooting) indoor range * (area for practicing shooting) shooting range * (area for practicing shooting) target range * (area for military training) air weapons range * (area for military training) artillery range * (area for military training) grenade range * (area for military training) live-fire range * (area for military training) missile range * (area for military training) rocket range * (area for military training) tank range * (maximum range) effective range * (maximum range) maximum range

    Related terms

    * shooting gallery * oven

    Verb

  • To travel (over) (an area, etc); to roam, wander.
  • To rove over or through.
    • to range the fields
  • * John Gay
    • Teach him to range the ditch, and force the brake.
  • (obsolete) To exercise the power of something over something else; to cause to submit (to), (over).
  • *, I.40:
    • The soule is variable in all manner of formes, and rangeth to her selfe, and to her estate, whatsoever it be, the senses of the body, and all other accidents.
  • To bring (something) into a specified position or relationship (especially, of opposition) with something else.
  • * 1851 , (Herman Melville), (Moby Dick) ,
    • At last we gained such an offing, that the two pilots were needed no longer. The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside.
  • * 1910 , (Saki), ‘The Bag’, Reginald in Russia :
    • In ranging herself as a partisan on the side of Major Pallaby Mrs. Hoopington had been largely influenced by the fact that she had made up her mind to marry him at an early date.
  • (mathematics, computing''; ''followed by over ) Of a variable, to be able to take any of the values in a specified range.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=Kevin Heng
    • , title= Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily? , volume=101, issue=3, page=184, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging' from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities ' range from that of styrofoam to iron.}}
  • To classify.
    • to range plants and animals in genera and species
  • To form a line or a row.
    • The front of a house ranges with the street.
  • * Dryden
    • which way the forests range
  • * 1873 , ,
    • The street-lamps burn amid the baleful glooms, / Amidst the soundless solitudes immense / Of ranged mansions dark and still as tombs.
  • To be placed in order; to be ranked; to admit of arrangement or classification; to rank.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And range with humble livers in content.
  • To set in a row, or in rows; to place in a regular line or lines, or in ranks; to dispose in the proper order.
  • * Bible, 2 Macc. xii. 20
    • Maccabeus ranged his army by hands.
  • To place among others in a line, row, or order, as in the ranks of an army; usually, reflexively and figuratively, to espouse a cause, to join a party, etc.
  • * Burke
    • It would be absurd in me to range myself on the side of the Duke of Bedford and the corresponding society.
  • (biology) To be native to, or live in, a certain district or region.
    • The peba ranges from Texas to Paraguay.
  • To separate into parts; to sift.
    • (Holland)
  • To sail or pass in a direction parallel to or near.
    • to range the coast
    * (English Citations of "range")

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