Field vs. Group

Field and Group Definitions
Field
A broad, level, open expanse of land.
Group
An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation
A group of dinner guests.
A group of buildings near the road.
Field
A meadow
Cows grazing in a field.
Group
A set of two or more figures that make up a unit or design, as in sculpture.
Field
A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop
A field of corn.
Group
A number of individuals or things considered or classed together because of similarities
A small group of supporters across the country.
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Field
A portion of land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource
A copper field.
Group
(Linguistics) A category of related languages that is less inclusive than a family.
Field
A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice.
Group
A military unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.
Field
A battleground.
Group
A unit of two or more squadrons in the US Air Force, smaller than a wing.
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Field
(Archaic) A battle.
Group
Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.
Field
The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers
Officers in the field.
Group
A column in the periodic table of the elements.
Field
A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin
A blue insignia on a field of red.
Group
(Geology) A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.
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Field
(Heraldry) The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background.
Group
(Mathematics) A set, together with a binary associative operation, such that the set is closed under the operation, the set contains an identity element for the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element with respect to the operation. The integers form a group under the operation of ordinary addition.
Field
An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory
Biologists working in the field.
A product tested in the field.
Group
Of, relating to, constituting, or being a member of a group
A group discussion.
A group effort.
Field
An area or region where business activities are conducted
Sales representatives in the field.
Group
To place or arrange in a group
Grouped the children according to height.
Field
An area in which an athletic event takes place, especially the area inside or near to a running track, where field events are held.
Group
To belong to or form a group
The soldiers began to group on the hillside.
Field
In baseball, the positions on defense or the ability to play defense
She excels in the field.
Group
A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.
There is a group of houses behind the hill;
He left town to join a Communist group
A group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.
Field
In baseball, one of the three sections of the outfield
He can hit to any field.
Group
(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.
Field
A range, area, or subject of human activity, interest, or knowledge
Several fields of endeavor.
Group
An effective divisor on a curve.
Field
The contestants or participants in a competition or athletic event, especially those other than the favorite or winner.
Group
A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.
Did you see the new jazz group?
Field
The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.
Group
(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.
Field
The people running in an election for a political office
The field has been reduced to three candidates.
Group
(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.
Field
(Mathematics) A set of elements having two operations, designated addition and multiplication, satisfying the conditions that multiplication is distributive over addition, that the set is a group under addition, and that the elements with the exception of the additive identity form a group under multiplication.
Group
(chemistry) A functional group.
Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.
Field
(Physics) A physical quantity in a region of space, such as gravitational force or fluid pressure, having a distinct value (scalar, vector, or tensor) at each point.
Group
(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.
Field
The usually circular area in which the image is rendered by the lens system of an optical instrument; field of view.
Group
(military) An air force formation.
Field
An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.
Group
(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.
Field
A space, as on an online form or request for information, that accepts the input of text
An address field.
Group
(computing) A number of users with the same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.
Field
Growing, cultivated, or living in fields or open land.
Group
An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.
Field
Made, used, or carried on in the field
Field operations.
Group
(music) A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
Field
Working, operating, or active in the field
Field representatives of a firm.
Group
(sports) A set of teams playing each other in the same division, while not during the same period playing any teams that belong to other sets in the division.
Field
(Sports) To catch or pick up (a ball) and often make a throw to another player, especially in baseball.
Group
(business) A commercial organization.
Field
To respond to or deal with
Fielded tough questions from the press.
Group
(transitive) To put together to form a group.
Group the dogs by hair colour
Field
(Sports) To place in the playing area
Field a team.
Group
(intransitive) To come together to form a group.
Field
To nominate in an election
Field a candidate.
Group
A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.
Field
To put into action; deploy
Field an army of campaign workers.
Group
An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.
Field
To enter (data) into a field.
Group
A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.
Field
To play as a fielder
How well can he field?.
Group
A number of eighth, sixteenth, etc., notes joined at the stems; - sometimes rather indefinitely applied to any ornament made up of a few short notes.
Field
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; an area of open country.
There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
Group
To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.
The difficulty lies in drawing and disposing, or, as the painters term it, in grouping such a multitude of different objects.
Field
The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
Group
Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit
Field
A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.
There were some cows grazing in a field.
A crop circle was made in a corn field.
Group
(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule
Field
(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
An oil field; a gold field
Group
A set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse
Field
An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
Group
Arrange into a group or groups;
Can you group these shapes together?
Field
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
Group
Form a group or group together
Field
A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
Field
An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
Soccer field
Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.
Field
A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, or playing area in a board game or a computer game.
Field
A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
Field
(metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.
This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.
Field
Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
Field
(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.
Magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field
Field
Any of certain structures serving cognition.
Field
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
Field
Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal
Field
To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
Field
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.
Field
To place a team, its players, etc. in a game.
The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.
Field
(transitive) To answer; to address.
She will field questions immediately after her presentation.
Field
(transitive) To defeat.
They fielded a fearsome army.
Field
(transitive) To execute research (in the field).
He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.
Field
To deploy in the field.
To field a new land-mine detector
Field
Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
Field
A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
Fields which promise corn and wine.
Field
A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
In this glorious and well-foughten field.
What though the field be lost?
Field
An open space; an extent; an expanse.
Without covering, save yon field of stars.
Ask of yonder argent fields above.
Field
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).
Field
An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
Afforded a clear field for moral experiments.
Field
A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
Field
That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; - called also outfield.
Field
To take the field.
Field
To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
Field
To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
Field
A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed;
He planted a field of wheat
Field
A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought;
They made a tour of Civil War battlefields
Field
Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected;
Anthropologists do much of their work in the field
Field
A branch of knowledge;
In what discipline is his doctorate?
Teachers should be well trained in their subject
Anthropology is the study of human beings
Field
The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it
Field
A particular kind of commercial enterprise;
They are outstanding in their field
Field
A particular environment or walk of life;
His social sphere is limited
It was a closed area of employment
He's out of my orbit
Field
A piece of land prepared for playing a game;
The home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field
Field
Extensive tract of level open land;
They emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain
He longed for the fields of his youth
Field
(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;
The set of all rational numbers is a field
Field
A region in which active military operations are in progress;
The army was in the field awaiting action
He served in the Vietnam theater for three years
Field
All of the horses in a particular horse race
Field
All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
Field
A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found;
The diamond fields of South Africa
Field
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
Field
The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
Field
A place where planes take off and land
Field
Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
Field
Play as a fielder
Field
Answer adequately or successfully;
The lawyer fielded all questions from the press
Field
Select (a team or individual player) for a game;
The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl