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job
English
Etymology
From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.
Folk etymology linked the word to Job, the biblical character who suffered many misfortunes; for semantic development of misery and labor, compare Vulgar Latin *tripalium (“instrument of torture”) and its Romance descendants like Spanish trabajo and French travail (whence borrowed into English travail).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: j?b, IPA(key): /d???b/
- (General American) enPR: j?b, IPA(key): /d???b/
- Rhymes: -?b
Noun
job (plural jobs)
- A task.
- 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire
- And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.
- 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire
- An economic role for which a person is paid.
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- Here I am at my new job!
- Here I am at my new job!
- 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
- (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.
- (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
- (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
- A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
- Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
- (colloquial) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).
- Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.
Usage notes
- Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.
Translations
Verb
job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)
- (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
- a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement
- Authors of all work, to job for the season.
- a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement
- (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
- (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
- (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
- (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.
- We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.
- (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
- 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst
- And judges job, and bishops bite the town.
- 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst
- To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.
- a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore
- To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises
- And while the Tympan is coming , he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it , as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position , as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder
- 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises
- To hire or let in periods of service.
- 1848, William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 59,[1]
- […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...
- 1848, William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 59,[1]
Translations
Derived terms
See also
- employment
- work
- labour
Anagrams
- obj
Danish
Etymology
From English job.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?d?j?b?]
Noun
job n
- job
Inflection
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??p/
- Hyphenation: job
- Rhymes: -?p
Noun
job f (plural jobs)
- (chiefly Belgium) job
- Synonym: baan
Usage notes
Job is the default word for a job in Belgium. In the Netherlands baan is the default; however, job is sometimes used informally or in certain sectors (e.g. marketing), but it may also be considered pretentious due to an association with yuppies.
French
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d??b/
Noun
job m or f (plural jobs)
- (informal) job (employment role)
- (Quebec, Louisiana, informal) work
Usage notes
- This term is feminine in Quebec and some parts of Louisiana and masculine elsewhere.
Synonyms
- (informal) boulot
Further reading
- “job” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Noun
job m (invariable)
- job (employment role, computing task)
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English job.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?d??bi/
- (Rarely) IPA(key): /?d??b/
Noun
job m (plural jobs)
- (computing) job (task carried out in batch mode)
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- what job is right for me
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.
- 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.
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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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