Field vs. Industry

A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.

Example: ‘There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.’;

The open country near or belonging to a town or city.

A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.

Example: ‘There were some cows grazing in a field.’; ‘A crop circle was made in a corn field.’;

(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

Example: ‘oil field;’; ‘gold field’;

A place where competitive matches are carried out.

A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.

Example: ‘soccer field’; ‘Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.’;

A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game.

A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.

(metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

Example: ‘This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.’;

Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.

(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.

Example: ‘magnetic field;’; ‘gravitational field;’; ‘scalar field’;

Any of certain structures serving cognition.

A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.

To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.

To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.

Example: ‘The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.’;

To place (a team) in a game.

Example: ‘The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.’;

(transitive) To answer; to address.

Example: ‘She will field questions immediately after her presentation.’;

(transitive) To defeat.

Example: ‘They fielded a fearsome army.’;

(transitive) To execute research (in the field).

Example: ‘He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.’;

To deploy in the field.

Example: ‘to field a new land-mine detector’;

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.

Example: ‘Fields which promise corn and wine.’;

A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.

Example: ‘In this glorious and well-foughten field.’; ‘What though the field be lost?’;

An open space; an extent; an expanse.

Example: ‘Without covering, save yon field of stars.’; ‘Ask of yonder argent fields above.’;

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).

An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.

Example: ‘Afforded a clear field for moral experiments.’;

A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.

That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; - called also outfield.

To take the field.

To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.

To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.

a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed;

Example: ‘he planted a field of wheat’;

a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought;

Example: ‘they made a tour of Civil War battlefields’;

somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected;

Example: ‘anthropologists do much of their work in the field’;

a branch of knowledge;

Example: ‘in what discipline is his doctorate?’; ‘teachers should be well trained in their subject’; ‘anthropology is the study of human beings’;

the space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

a particular kind of commercial enterprise;

Example: ‘they are outstanding in their field’;

a particular environment or walk of life;

Example: ‘his social sphere is limited’; ‘it was a closed area of employment’; ‘he's out of my orbit’;

a piece of land prepared for playing a game;

Example: ‘the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field’;

extensive tract of level open land;

Example: ‘they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain’; ‘he longed for the fields of his youth’;

(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;

Example: ‘the set of all rational numbers is a field’;

a region in which active military operations are in progress;

Example: ‘the army was in the field awaiting action’; ‘he served in the Vietnam theater for three years’;

all of the horses in a particular horse race

all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found;

Example: ‘the diamond fields of South Africa’;

(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

a place where planes take off and land

catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

play as a fielder

answer adequately or successfully;

Example: ‘The lawyer fielded all questions from the press’;

select (a team or individual player) for a game;

Example: ‘The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl’;

(uncountable) The tendency to work persistently. Diligence.

Example: ‘Over the years, their industry and business sense made them wealthy.’;

Businesses of the same type, considered as a whole. Trade.

Example: ‘The software and tourism industries continue to grow, while the steel industry remains troubled.’; ‘The steel industry has long used blast furnaces to smelt iron.’;

Businesses that produce goods as opposed to services.

The sector of the economy consisting of large-scale enterprises.

Example: ‘There used to be a lot of industry around here, but now the economy depends on tourism.’;

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(archaeology) A typological classification of stone tools, associated with a technocomplex.

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.

Example: ‘We are more industrious than our forefathers, because in the present times the funds destined for the maintenance of industry are much greater in proportion to those which are likely to be employed in the maintenance of idleness, than they were two or three centuries ago.’;

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.

Human exertion of any kind employed for the creation of value, and regarded by some as a species of capital or wealth; labor.

the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise;

Example: ‘each industry has its own trade publications’;

the organized action of making of goods and services for sale;

Example: ‘American industry is making increased use of computers to control production’;

persevering determination to perform a task;

Example: ‘his diligence won him quick promotions’; ‘frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues’;

economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories

Example: ‘new investment incentives for British industry’;

a particular form or branch of economic or commercial activity

Example: ‘the car industry’;

an activity or domain in which a great deal of effort is expended

Example: ‘the Shakespeare industry’;

hard work

Example: ‘the kitchen became a hive of industry’;