Field vs. Group

Difference Between Field and Group

Fieldnoun

A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.

There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.

Groupnoun

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 groupA group of people gathered in front of the Parliament to demonstrate against the Prime Minister's proposals.

Fieldnoun

The open country near or belonging to a town or city.

Groupnoun

(group theory) A set with an associative binary operation, under which there exists an identity element, and such that each element has an inverse.

Fieldnoun

A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.

There were some cows grazing in a field.A crop circle was made in a corn field.

Groupnoun

An effective divisor on a curve.

Fieldnoun

(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

oil field;gold field

Groupnoun

A (usually small) group of people who perform music together.

Did you see the new jazz group?

Fieldnoun

A place where competitive matches are carried out.

Groupnoun

(astronomy) A small number (up to about fifty) of galaxies that are near each other.

Fieldnoun

A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

Groupnoun

(chemistry) A column in the periodic table of chemical elements.

Fieldnoun

An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.

soccer fieldSubstitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.

Groupnoun

(chemistry) A functional group.

Nitro is an electron-withdrawing group.

Fieldnoun

A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game.

Groupnoun

(sociology) A subset of a culture or of a society.

Fieldnoun

A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.

Groupnoun

(military) An air force formation.

Fieldnoun

(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.

Groupnoun

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

Fieldnoun

Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.

Groupnoun

(computing) A number of users with same rights with respect to accession, modification, and execution of files, computers and peripherals.

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.

magnetic field;gravitational field;scalar field

Groupnoun

An element of an espresso machine from which hot water pours into the portafilter.

Fieldnoun

Any of certain structures serving cognition.

Groupnoun

(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.

Fieldnoun

A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.

Groupnoun

(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.

Fieldverb

To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.

Groupnoun

(business) A commercial organization.

Fieldverb

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.

Groupverb

(transitive) To put together to form a group.

group the dogs by hair colour

Fieldverb

To place (a team) in a game.

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

Groupverb

(intransitive) To come together to form a group.

Fieldverb

(transitive) To answer; to address.

She will field questions immediately after her presentation.

Groupnoun

any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

Fieldverb

(transitive) To defeat.

They fielded a fearsome army.

Groupnoun

(chemistry) two or more atoms bound together as a single unit and forming part of a molecule

Fieldverb

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

He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.

Groupnoun

a set that is closed, associative, has an identity element and every element has an inverse

Fieldverb

To deploy in the field.

to field a new land-mine detector

Groupverb

arrange into a group or groups;

Can you group these shapes together?

Fieldnoun

a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed;

he planted a field of wheat

Groupverb

form a group or group together

Fieldnoun

a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought;

they made a tour of Civil War battlefields

Fieldnoun

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

Fieldnoun

a branch of knowledge;

in what discipline is his doctorate?teachers should be well trained in their subjectanthropology is the study of human beings

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;

they are outstanding in their field

Fieldnoun

a particular environment or walk of life;

his social sphere is limitedit was a closed area of employmenthe's out of my orbit

Fieldnoun

a piece of land prepared for playing a game;

the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field

Fieldnoun

extensive tract of level open land;

they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plainhe longed for the fields of his youth

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;

the set of all rational numbers is a field