Field vs. Industry
Fieldnoun
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
Fieldnoun
The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
Fieldnoun
A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
Fieldnoun
(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
Fieldnoun
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
Fieldnoun
A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
Fieldnoun
An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
Fieldnoun
A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game.
Fieldnoun
A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
Fieldnoun
(metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
Fieldnoun
Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
Fieldnoun
(physics) 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.
Fieldnoun
Any of certain structures serving cognition.
Fieldnoun
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
Fieldverb
To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
Fieldverb
To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.
Fieldverb
To place (a team) in a game.
Fieldverb
(transitive) To answer; to address.
Fieldverb
(transitive) To defeat.
Fieldverb
(transitive) To execute research (in the field).
Fieldverb
To deploy in the field.
Fieldnoun
Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
Fieldnoun
A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
Fieldnoun
A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
Fieldnoun
An open space; an extent; an expanse.
Fieldnoun
The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).
Fieldnoun
An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
Fieldnoun
A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
Fieldnoun
That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; - called also outfield.
Fieldverb
To take the field.
Fieldverb
To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
Fieldverb
To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
Fieldnoun
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed;
Fieldnoun
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought;
Fieldnoun
somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected;
Fieldnoun
a branch of knowledge;
Fieldnoun
the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
Fieldnoun
a particular kind of commercial enterprise;
Fieldnoun
a particular environment or walk of life;
Fieldnoun
a piece of land prepared for playing a game;
Fieldnoun
extensive tract of level open land;
Fieldnoun
(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;
Fieldnoun
a region in which active military operations are in progress;
Fieldnoun
all of the horses in a particular horse race
Fieldnoun
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
Fieldnoun
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found;
Fieldnoun
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
Fieldnoun
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
Fieldnoun
a place where planes take off and land
Fieldverb
catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
Fieldverb
play as a fielder
Fieldverb
answer adequately or successfully;
Fieldverb
select (a team or individual player) for a game;
Industrynoun
(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.
Industrynoun
Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.
Industrynoun
Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.
Industrynoun
The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.
Industrynoun
Automated production of material goods{{cite-web
Industrynoun
(archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.
Industrynoun
Habitual diligence in any employment or pursuit, either bodily or mental; steady attention to business; assiduity; - opposed to sloth and idleness; as, industry pays debts, while idleness or despair will increase them.
Industrynoun
Any department or branch of art, occupation, or business; especially, one which employs much labor and capital and is a distinct branch of trade; as, the sugar industry; the iron industry; the cotton industry.
Industrynoun
Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.
Industrynoun
the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise;
Industrynoun
the organized action of making of goods and services for sale;
Industrynoun
persevering determination to perform a task;
Industrynoun
economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories
Industrynoun
a particular form or branch of economic or commercial activity
Industrynoun
an activity or domain in which a great deal of effort is expended
Industrynoun
hard work
