field

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
    — There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
  2. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.; The open country near or belonging to a town or city. plural-normally
    — Harry shook his head, and wandered away miserable through the fields, and would not in these days even set his foot upon the soil of the park. “He was not going to intrude any farther,” he said to the rector. “You can come to church, at any rate,” his father said, “for he certainly will not be there while you are at the parsonage.” Oh yes, Harry would go to the church. “I have yet to understand that Mr. Prosper is owner of the church, and the path there from the rectory is, at any rate, open to the public;” for at Buston the church stands on one corner of the park.
  3. A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
    — There were some cows grazing in a field.
  4. A region containing a particular mineral.
    — an oil field; a gold field
  5. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
  6. A place where competitive matches are carried out.; A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
    — Tarry, sweet soul, for mine; then fly abreast, As in this glorious and well-foughten field We kept together in our chivalry!
  7. A place where competitive matches are carried out.; An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
    — soccer field
  8. A place where competitive matches are carried out.; An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.; The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat). obsolete
  9. A place where competitive matches are carried out.; An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.; The outfield.
  10. A place where competitive matches are carried out.; A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
  11. A place where competitive matches are carried out.; A competitive situation, circumstance in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
    — Dr. Finn understood enough of elections for Parliament, and of the nature of boroughs, to be aware that a candidate’s chance of success is very much improved by being early in the field.
  12. A place where competitive matches are carried out.; All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting. metonymically
    — This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.
  13. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; A physical phenomenon (such as force, potential or fluid velocity) that pervades a region; a mathematical model of such a phenomenon that associates each point and time with a scalar, vector or tensor quantity.
    — magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field
  14. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; Any of certain structures serving cognition.; The extent of a given perception.
    — field of view
  15. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; Any of certain structures serving cognition.; A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
    — The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.
  16. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; Any of certain structures serving cognition.; A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
    — 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.
  17. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; Any of certain structures serving cognition.; An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
    — Penn was without doubt a man of eminent virtues. He had a strong sense of religious duty and a fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. On one or two points of high importance, he had notions more correct than were, in his day, common even among men of enlarged minds: and as the proprietor and legislator of a province which, being almost uninhabited when it came into his possession, afforded a clear field for moral experiments, he had the rare good fortune of being able to carry his theories into practice without any compromise, and yet without any shock to existing institutions.
  18. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; Any of certain structures serving cognition.; A non-zero commutative ring in which all non-zero elements are invertible; a simple commutative ring.
    — The set of rational numbers, #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;, is the prototypical field.
  19. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.; The background of the shield.
    — The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain.
  20. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.; The background of the flag.
  21. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.; The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
  22. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.; A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
    — The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and shipping address.
  23. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.; A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
  24. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.; An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
    — Read-only fields allow you to establish a point of data whose value is not known at compile time, but that should never change once established.
  25. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.; Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal.
  26. Archaic form of fielder. alt-of,archaic
    — The manager should always choose his own Eleven; and, we have already hinted that fielding, rather than batting, is the qualification. A good field is sure to save runs, though the best batsman may not make any.
动词 v.
  1. To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it. transitive
  2. To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it. intransitive
    — The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.
  3. To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game. transitive
    — The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
  4. To answer; to address. transitive
    — She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
  5. To execute research (in the field). transitive
    — He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.
  6. To deploy in the field. transitive
    — to field a new land-mine detector

词形变化

fields plural fields present,singular,third-person fielding participle,present fielded participle,past fielded past

词汇关系

近义词
course court ground pitch input field box
反义词
bat
上位词
Euclidean domain ⊂ principal ideal domain ⊂ unique factorization domain Noetherian domain ⊂ integral domain ⊂ commutative ring simple ring ⊂ local ring
下位词
ordered field Pythagorean field residue field extension field
衍生词
field off field out field up misfield
相关词
Field in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

词源

词源 1
From Middle English feeld, feld (“field”), from Old English feld (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fial, fälj (“field”), Saterland Frisian Fäild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German and Luxembourgish Feld (“field”), Vilamovian fald (“field”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk felt (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”), Finnish pelto (“field”), Asturian and Leonese platu (“plate”), Aragonese and Spanish plato (“plate”), Catalan plat (“plate”), French plat (“dish”), Galician, Mirandese, and Portuguese prato (“plate”), Italian piatto (“plate”), Latin *plattus (“flattened”), Greek πλατύς (platýs, “wide, broad”). Doublet of plate. Related also to Middle English flat (“flat”), Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at flat, fold.
Not related to English felt.
词源 2
From Middle English feeld, feld (“field”), from Old English feld (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fial, fälj (“field”), Saterland Frisian Fäild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German and Luxembourgish Feld (“field”), Vilamovian fald (“field”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk felt (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”), Finnish pelto (“field”), Asturian and Leonese platu (“plate”), Aragonese and Spanish plato (“plate”), Catalan plat (“plate”), French plat (“dish”), Galician, Mirandese, and Portuguese prato (“plate”), Italian piatto (“plate”), Latin *plattus (“flattened”), Greek πλατύς (platýs, “wide, broad”). Doublet of plate. Related also to Middle English flat (“flat”), Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at flat, fold.
Not related to English felt.
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