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field
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)
- A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
- (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
- An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
- (usually in the plural) 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.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
- 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.
- (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).
- (baseball) The outfield.
- A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a board game 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.
- A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
- Any of various figurative meanings, often 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.
- Any of certain structures serving cognition.
- The extent of a given perception.
- A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.
- A domain of study, knowledge or practice.
- An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
- (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.
- The extent of a given perception.
- A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
- (heraldry) The background of the shield.
- (vexillology) The background of the flag.
- The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
- A concrete section in a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
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- A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
- (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
- (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal
- (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.
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)
- (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
- (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.
- (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.
- The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
- (transitive) To answer; to address.
- She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
- (transitive) To defeat.
- (transitive) To execute research (in the field).
- (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
- Alternative form of feeld
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sophy
English
Etymology 1
From the Latin sophia, from the Ancient Greek ?????? (sophí?, “high knowledge”: “learning”, “wisdom”); compare Sophia.
Alternative forms
- sophie [15th–16th centuries]
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s??f?, IPA(key): /?s?f?/
Noun
sophy (uncountable)
- (obsolete) wisdom, knowledge, learning
- circa 1440: John Capgrave, The Life of St Katharine of Alexandria, verses 1,020–1,021 (published in 1893 by the Early English Text Society)
- It had ben) beter to haue kepte the same sophie
Whiche þat youre maysteris lerned you first in scole!
- It had ben) beter to haue kepte the same sophie
- ante 1557: Nicolas Grimald, “The death of Zoroas, an Egiptian A?tronomer, in fir?t fight, that Alexander had with the Per?ians” in Songes and Sonnettes, page 121
- Turn thee to mee, in ca?e
Manhod ther bee ?o much left in thy hert:
Coom fight with mee: that on my helmet wear
Apolloes laurel, both for learnings laude,
And eke for Martiall pray?e: that, in my ?hield,
The ?euenfold ?ophie of Minerue contein:
A match, more meet, ?ir king, than any here.
- Turn thee to mee, in ca?e
- 1588: John Harvey, A Discoursive Probleme Concerning Prophesies, page 10
- Who knoweth not the difference betweene…semblance, and assurance; docosophy, and sophy?
- circa 1440: John Capgrave, The Life of St Katharine of Alexandria, verses 1,020–1,021 (published in 1893 by the Early English Text Society)
Etymology 2
See Sophy.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s??f?, IPA(key): /?s??f?/
Noun
sophy (plural sophies) (historical)
- Alternative letter-case form of Sophy (“in the senses of ‘a Persian monarch’ and ‘a personage’”).
Etymology 3
A back-formation from sophies, originally plurale tantum, but later attested in singular use (see the 1678 quotation), itself an irregular Anglicisation of the Latin soph?, whence the English sophi; compare sophy.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s??fi, IPA(key): /?s?fi/
Noun
sophy (plural sophies)
- (obsolete) A wise man; a sage or wite.
- 1587: Philippe de Mornay (author), Sir Philip Sidney (translator), and Arthur Golding (translator), A Woorke concerning the trewne??e of the Christian Religion, preface, page viii (2007 compilation republication)
- Yet notwithstanding some men in sundrie nations have mounted above the common rate, and indevored to cherish and advaunce the said Insights, and drawen some small sparkes of truth and wisedome out of them, as out of some little fire raked up under a great heape of ashes; the which they have afterward taught unto others, and for so doing have bene called Sophies and Philosophers, that is to say, Wise men and lovers of wisedome.
- 1596: Henoch Clapham, A Briefe of the Bibles Historie Drawne into English Poesy, volume 2, page 127
- These Sophies finde with the Babe Iesus, onely Marie.
- 1610: Giles Fletcher the Younger, Christs Victorie, and Triumph in Heaven, and Earth, over, and after Death, first canto: “Christs Victorie in Heaven”, stanza 82 (1838 republication)
- The Angels caroll’d loud their song of pecea,
The cursed oracles were strucken dumb,
To see their Shepherd, the poor shepherds press,
To see their King, the kingly sophies come,
And them to guide unto his Master’s home,
A star comes dancing up the orient,
That springs for joy over the starry tent.
Where gold to make their prince a crown they all present.
- The Angels caroll’d loud their song of pecea,
- ante 1635: Thomas Randolph, Poems: with The Muses Looking-Glasse; and Amyntas, page 3 (first manuscript dated 1638; 1875 republication)
- You that nothing have
Like Schollars but a Beard and Gowne, for me
May pass for good grand Sophies […]
- You that nothing have
- 1639, July 16th: Bishop Robert Sanderson, The Ninth Sermon; delivered in Berwick, July, 16, 1639, § 12 (1841 republication)
- It is no thanks then to us, that very children among us do believe and confess these high mysterious points, whereof Plato, and Aristotle, and all the other grand sophies among them were ignorant; since we owe our whole knowledge herein, not to our own natural sagacity or industry, wherein they were beyond most of us, but to divine and supernatural revelation.
- 1645: James Stanley, 7th Earl of Derby?, “The Requiem or Libertie of an Impri?oned Royali?t”, verse 3; in The Great A??i?es Holden in Parna??us by Apollo and His A??e??ovrs, pages 83–84
- I, while I wi?ht to bee Retir’d,
Into the private room was turn’d;
As if their wi?doms had con?pir’d
A Salamander ?hould bee burn’d:
And like tho?e Sophies who would drown a Fi?h
I am condemn’d to ?uffer what I wi?h.
- I, while I wi?ht to bee Retir’d,
- 1654: Richard Whitlock, ????????; or, Observations on the Present Manners of the English, page 47
- It were to be wisht their Ideas…were undisputable among the Sophies themselves in Physick.
- 1678: Samuel Butler, Hudibras, third part, first canto, lines 1,423–1,424 (1709 republication)
- Sir, (quo’ the Voice) y’ are no ?uch Sophy
As you would have the World judge of ye.
- Sir, (quo’ the Voice) y’ are no ?uch Sophy
- 1688: William Bates, The Harmony of the Divine Attributes, chapter V, page 75 (This quotation is taken from the third edition because, although the work was first published in 1674, this extract first appeared in that later edition; meanwhile, the specific page reference and link refer to an 1815 republication.)
- The apostle tells us, 1 Cor. 1. 23. that “Christ crucified was to the Jews a stumbling-block, and to the Gentiles foolishness.” The grand Sophies of the world esteemed it absurd and unreasonable to believe, that he who was exposed to sufferings, could save others: but those who are called, discover that the doctrine of salvation, by the cross of Christ, which the world counted folly, ver. 24. is the great “wisdom of God,” and most convenient for his end.
- 1587: Philippe de Mornay (author), Sir Philip Sidney (translator), and Arthur Golding (translator), A Woorke concerning the trewne??e of the Christian Religion, preface, page viii (2007 compilation republication)
Usage notes
- This use of sophy is occasionally preceded by the epithet grand (as in the ante 1635, 1639, and 1688 quotations), influenced by the Persian title Sophy. Perhaps by contrast, some usage is sarcastic or mocking (as in the 1645 quotation).
Etymology 4
An irregular Anglicisation of sophi; compare sophy ³.
Noun
sophy
- Obsolete spelling of sophi
- 1598: John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie, Three Books of Satyres, volume 2, chapter 5, page 194 (1966 republication)
- Hange thy selfe Drusus, hast nor arms nor brain?
Some Sophy say, The Gods sell all for paine.
- Hange thy selfe Drusus, hast nor arms nor brain?
- 1598: John Marston, The Scourge of Villanie, Three Books of Satyres, volume 2, chapter 5, page 194 (1966 republication)
Etymology 5
From the common termination of the class of words denoted (e.g., philosophy, theosophy, etc.); compare the earlier ology and ism, and the later logy and osophy.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: s??f?, IPA(key): /?s?f?/
Noun
sophy (plural sophies)
- Any one of the various fields of study whose names end in -sophy.
- ante 1843: Robert Southey, Common-place Book, volume 4, page 578 (1851 publication)
- The various sophy’s — cosmosophy, kerdosophy.
- 1869: Contemporary Review, volume 11, page 456
- Francis Moyen was, as here described, an interesting character in his way; a sparkling, talented, thoughtless Parisian, full of adventure and, with his beloved violin in his baggage, ever on the wing. Voltaire and Boileau were winning the world in those days. Moyen, like every young man of the period, had read them, could quote them, and would sometimes utter himself in their particular sophy; half scoffing, and half religious, and half philosophical by turns, a thorough Frenchman, carelessly throwing off his first thoughts whatever they were and whoever was near.
- ante 1843: Robert Southey, Common-place Book, volume 4, page 578 (1851 publication)
References
Anagrams
- hypos, hypso-
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