different between crowd vs field

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?a?d/
• Rhymes: -a?d

Etymology 1

From Middle English crouden, from Old English cr?dan, from Proto-Germanic *kr?dan?, *kreudan?. Cognate with Dutch kruien.

Verb

crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)

1. (intransitive) To press forward; to advance by pushing.

2. (intransitive) To press together or collect in numbers

   Synonyms: swarm, throng, crowd in

   • Images came crowding on his mind faster than he could put them into words.

3. (transitive) To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram.
4. (transitive) To fill by pressing or thronging together
   • 1875, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Philip the Second, King of Spain

     The balconies and verandas were crowded with spectators, anxious to behold their future sovereign.

5. (transitive, often used with "out of" or "off") To push, to press, to shove.
6. (nautical) To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way.
7. (nautical, of a square-rigged ship, transitive) To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster.
8. (transitive) To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably.

Synonyms

• becrowd (dated)

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

crowd (plural crowds)

1. A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order.
2. Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other.

3. (with definite article) The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar.
4. A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest.

Synonyms

• (group of things): aggregation, cluster, group, mass
• (group of people): audience, group, multitude, public, swarm, throng
• (the "lower orders" of people): everyone, general public, masses, rabble, mob, unwashed

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English crowde, from Welsh crwth or a Celtic cognate.

Noun

crowd (plural crowds)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of crwth
   • 1600, Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

     A lackey that […] can warble upon a crowd a little.

2. (now dialectal) A fiddle.

Derived terms

• crowder

Verb

crowd (third-person singular simple present crowds, present participle crowding, simple past and past participle crowded)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To play on a crowd; to fiddle.
   • 1656, Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, and Philip Massinger, The Old Law

     Fiddlers, crowd on, crowd on.

References

crowd in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• c-word

English

Etymology

From Middle English field, feeld, feld, from Old English feld (“field; open or cultivated land, plain; battlefield”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz, *felþaz, *felþ? (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“field, plain”) or *pleth?- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).

Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fi?ld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fild/
• Rhymes: -i?ld

Noun

field (plural fields)

2. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
   1. (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
      1. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
4. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
   2. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

5. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
   2. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
   4. An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
      1. (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
      2. (baseball) The outfield.
   5. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a board game or in a computer game.
   6. A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
   7. (metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

6. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
   2. (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.

   3. Any of certain structures serving cognition.
      1. The extent of a given perception.

      2. A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.

      4. A domain of study, knowledge or practice.

      5. An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
      7. (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.

   4. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
      2. (heraldry) The background of the shield.
      4. (vexillology) The background of the flag.
      5. The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
      6. A concrete section in a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
         • PHP 5 Forms Required Fields at W3Schools

           From the validation rules table on the previous page, we see that the "Name", "E-mail", and "Gender" fields are required. These fields cannot be empty and must be filled out in the HTML form.

      7. A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
         2. (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
   5. (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal

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, pitch (for soccer, rugby, cricket)
• (location for the input of information): input field, box

Hypernyms

• (algebra): Euclidean domain ? principal ideal domain ? unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain ? integral domain ? commutative ring;   simple ring

Hyponyms

• (algebra): ordered field, Pythagorean field, residue field, extension field

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (f?rudo)

Translations

Usage 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

field (third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)

1. (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
2. (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.

   The blue team are fielding first, while the reds are batting.

3. (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.

   The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.

4. (transitive) To answer; to address.

   She will field questions immediately after her presentation.

5. (transitive) To defeat.

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

7. (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.

   to field a new land-mine detector

Synonyms

• (intercept or catch (a ball) and play it):
• (place a team in (a game)):
• (answer, address): address, answer, deal with, respond to

Antonyms

• (be the team throwing and catching the ball): bat

Translations

See also

• Field in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “field”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Fidel, felid, filed, flied

Middle English

Noun

field

1. Alternative form of feeld