Sweep vs Field - What's the difference?
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To clean (a surface) by means of a motion of a broom or brush.
* (Bible), (w) xiv. 23
To move through an (horizontal) arc or similar long stroke.
* 2005 , (Lesley Brown) (translator), Sophist by (Plato), :
To search (a place) methodically.
(figuratively) To travel quickly.
* {{quote-news, year=2011, date=February 1, author=Phil McNulty, work=BBC
, title= (cricket) To play a sweep shot.
(curling) To brush the ice in front of a moving stone, causing it to travel farther and to curl less.
(ergative) To move something in a particular motion, as a broom.
(sports) To win (a series) without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
(sports) To defeat (a team) in a series without drawing or losing any of the games in that series.
To remove something abruptly and thoroughly.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=
, volume=188, issue=26, page=6, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= To brush against or over; to rub lightly along.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*
To carry with a long, swinging, or dragging motion; hence, to carry in a stately or proud fashion.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
To strike with a long stroke.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(nautical) To draw or drag something over.
To pass over, or traverse, with the eye or with an instrument of observation.
The person who steers a dragon boat.
A person who stands at the stern of a surf boat, steering with a steering oar and commanding the crew.
A chimney sweep.
A search (typically for bugs [electronic listening devices]).
(cricket) A batsman's shot, played from a kneeling position with a swinging horizontal bat.
A lottery, usually on the results of a sporting event, where players win if their randomly chosen team wins.
A flow of water parallel to shore caused by wave action at an ocean beach or at a point or headland.
A single action of sweeping.
Violent and general destruction.
(metalworking) A movable templet for making moulds, in loam moulding.
(card games) In the game casino, the act of capturing all face-up cards from the table.
The compass of any turning body or of any motion.
Direction or departure of a curve, a road, an arch, etc. away from a rectilinear line.
* Sir Walter Scott
A large oar used in small vessels, partly to propel them and partly to steer them.
(refining, obsolete) The almond furnace.
A long pole, or piece of timber, moved on a horizontal fulcrum fixed to a tall post and used to raise and lower a bucket in a well for drawing water.
(in the plural) The sweepings of workshops where precious metals are worked, containing filings, etc.
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)
*{{quote-book, year=1927, author=
, chapter=5, title= 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= 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
, year=2012
, date=August 23
, author=Alasdair Lamont
, title=Hearts 0-1 Liverpool
, work=BBC Sport
To answer; to address.
To defeat.
In transitive terms the difference between sweep and field
is that sweep is to remove something abruptly and thoroughly while field is to defeat.As a proper noun Field is
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English
Verb
- to sweep a floor, the street, or a chimney
- I will sweep it with the besom of destruction.
- [H]as the course of the argument so accustomed you to agreeing that you were swept by it into a ready assent?
Arsenal 2-1 Everton, passage=Everton took that disputed lead in a moment that caused anger to sweep around the Emirates. }}
- The wind sweeps the snow from the hills.
- The flooded river swept away the wooden dam.
Ed Pilkington
‘Killer robots’ should be banned in advance, UN told, passage=In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.}}
- Their long descending train, / With rubies edged and sapphires, swept the plain.
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace, complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- And like a peacock sweep along his tail.
- Wake into voice each silent string, / And sweep the sounding lyre.
- to sweep the bottom of a river with a net
- to sweep the heavens with a telescope
Derived terms
* sweeper * sweep across * sweep someone off their feet * sweep something under the rug * sweep up * sweepyNoun
(en noun)- Jim will win fifty dollars in the office sweep if Japan wins the World Cup.
- the sweep of an epidemic disease
- the sweep''' of a door; the '''sweep of the eye
- the road which makes a small sweep
Derived terms
* chimney sweep * clean sweep * sweepstakeReferences
*field
English
Noun
(en noun)- fields which promise corn and wine
F. E. Penny
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 .”}}
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.
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.
- She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
