Field vs. Plain

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;

Plainadjective

Flat, level.

Plainadjective

Simple.

Plainadjective

Ordinary; lacking adornment or ornamentation; unembellished.

Plainadjective

Of just one colour; lacking a pattern.

Plainadjective

Simple in habits or qualities; unsophisticated, not exceptional, ordinary.

Plainadjective

(of food) Having only few ingredients, or no additional ingredients or seasonings; not elaborate, without toppings or extras.

Plainadjective

(computing) Containing no extended or nonprinting characters (especially in plain text).

Plainadjective

Obvious.

Plainadjective

Evident to one's senses or reason; manifest, clear, unmistakable.

Plainadjective

Downright; total, unmistakable (as intensifier).

Plainadjective

Open.

Plainadjective

Honest and without deception; candid, open; blunt.

Plainadjective

Clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.

Plainadjective

Not unusually beautiful; unattractive.

Plainadverb

(colloquial) Simply

Plainnoun

A lamentation.

Plainnoun

An expanse of land with relatively low relief.

Plainnoun

A battlefield.

Plainnoun

(obsolete) A plane.

Plainverb

To complain.

Plainverb

To lament, bewail.

Plainverb

To level; to raze; to make plain or even on the surface.

Plainverb

To make plain or manifest; to explain.

Plainverb

To lament; to bewail; to complain.

Plainverb

To lament; to mourn over; as, to plain a loss.

Plainverb

To plane or level; to make plain or even on the surface.

Plainverb

To make plain or manifest; to explain.

Plainadjective

Without elevations or depressions; flat; level; smooth; even. See Plane.

Plainadjective

Open; clear; unencumbered; equal; fair.

Plainadjective

Not intricate or difficult; evident; manifest; obvious; clear; unmistakable.

Plainadjective

Void of extraneous beauty or ornament; without conspicious embellishment; not rich; simple.

Plainadverb

In a plain manner; plainly.

Plainnoun

Level land; usually, an open field or a broad stretch of land with an even surface, or a surface little varied by inequalities; as, the plain of Jordan; the American plains, or prairies.

Plainnoun

A field of battle.

Plainnoun

extensive tract of level open land;

Plainnoun

a basic knitting stitch

Plainverb

express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness;

Plainadjective

clearly apparent or obvious to the mind or senses;

Plainadjective

not elaborate or elaborated; simple;

Plainadjective

lacking patterns especially in color

Plainadjective

not mixed with extraneous elements;

Plainadjective

free from any effort to soften to disguise;

Plainadjective

lacking embellishment or ornamentation;

Plainadjective

lacking stylistic embellishment;

Plainadjective

comprehensible to the general public;

Plainadjective

lacking in physical beauty or proportion;

Plainadverb

unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly');

Plainadjective

not decorated or elaborate; simple or basic in character

Plainadjective

without a pattern; in only one colour

Plainadjective

(of paper) without lines.

Plainadjective

bearing no indication as to contents or affiliation

Plainadjective

having no pretensions; not remarkable or special

Plainadjective

(of a person) without a special title or status

Plainadjective

easy to perceive or understand; clear

Plainadjective

(of written or spoken usage) clearly expressed, without the use of technical or abstruse terms

Plainadjective

not using concealment or deception; frank

Plainadjective

(of a person) not beautiful or attractive

Plainadjective

sheer; simple (used for emphasis)

Plainadjective

denoting or relating to a type of knitting stitch produced by putting the needle through the front of each stitch from left to right.

Plainadverb

used for emphasis

Plainadverb

clearly or unequivocally

Plainnoun

a large area of flat land with few trees

Plainverb

mourn or lament.

Plainverb

complain.

Plainverb

emit a mournful or plaintive sound.

Plain

In geography, a plain is a flat expanse of land that generally does not change much in elevation, and are primarily treeless. Plains occur as lowlands along valleys or at the base of mountains, as coastal plains, and as plateaus or uplands.In a valley, a plain is enclosed on two sides, but in other cases a plain may be delineated by a complete or partial ring of hills, by mountains, or by cliffs.