The difference between Field and Ground

Field as a noun (usually, plural):

A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country. The open country near or belonging to a town or city. # An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.

Field as a noun (geology):

A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals. A region containing a particular mineral.

Field as a noun (baseball, obsolete):

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. # The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat). # The outfield. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game. A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals. All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

Field as a noun (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. # 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. #* {{quote-journal|lang=en|date=2013-05-10|author=Audrey Garric |volume=188|issue=22|page=30|magazine= |title=[http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/may/04/paris-green-roofs-building-climate-environment Urban canopies let nature bloom] |passage=As towns continue to grow, replanting vegetation has become a form of urban utopia and green roofs are spreading fast. Last year 1m square metres of plant-covered roofing was built in France, as much as in the US, and 10 times more than in Germany, the pioneer in this field.}} # An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement. #* |title=The History Of England From the Accession of James II|volume=1|chapter=IV|year=1848|passage=Penn was without doubt a man of eminent virtues. He had a strong sense of religious duty and a fervent desire to promote the happiness of mankind. On one or two points of high importance, he had notions more correct than were, in his day, common even among men of enlarged minds: and as the proprietor and legislator of a province which, being almost uninhabited when it came into his possession, afforded a clear field for moral experiments, he had the rare good fortune of being able to carry his theories into practice without any compromise, and yet without any shock to existing institutions.}} #* |title=The Way We Live Now|year=1875|section=Chap. II|passage=Tidings had reached her of this and the other man's success, and,—coming near to her still,—of this and that other woman's earnings in literature. And it had seemed to her that, within moderate limits, she might give a wide field to her hopes.}} # A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols. # The background of the shield. # The background of the flag. # A concrete section in a form which is supposed to be filled with data. #* [https://www.w3schools.com/php/php_form_required.asp 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. # A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored. ## An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.

Field as a verb (transitive, sports):

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

Field as a verb (baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports):

To be the team catching and throwing the ball, as opposed to hitting it.

Field as a verb (transitive, sports):

To place a team in (a game).

Field as a verb (transitive):

To answer; to address.

Field as a verb (transitive):

To defeat.

Field as a verb (transitive):

To execute research (in the field).

Field as a verb (transitive, military):

To deploy in the field.

Ground as a noun (uncountable):

The surface of the Earth, as opposed to the sky or water or underground.

Ground as a noun (uncountable):

Terrain.

Ground as a noun (uncountable):

Soil, earth.

Ground as a noun (countable):

The bottom of a body of water.

Ground as a noun:

Basis, foundation, groundwork, legwork.

Ground as a noun:

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Ground as a noun:

Background, context, framework, surroundings.

Ground as a noun (historical):

The area on which a battle is fought, particularly as referring to the area occupied by one side or the other. Often, according to the eventualities, "to give ground" or "to gain ground".

Ground as a noun (metaphorical):

Hence, by extension, advantage given or gained in any contest; e.g. in football, chess, debate or academic discourse.

Ground as a noun:

plain surface upon which the figures of an artistic composition are set.

Ground as a noun:

In sculpture, a flat surface upon which figures are raised in relief.

Ground as a noun:

In point lace, the net of small meshes upon which the embroidered pattern is applied.

Ground as a noun:

In etching, a gummy substance spread over the surface of a metal to be etched, to prevent the acid from eating except where an opening is made by the needle.

Ground as a noun (architecture, mostly, in the plural):

One of the pieces of wood, flush with the plastering, to which mouldings etc. are attached.

Ground as a noun (countable):

A soccer stadium.

Ground as a noun (electricity, Canadian, and, US):

An electrical conductor connected to the ground.

Ground as a noun (electricity, Canadian, and, US):

A level of electrical potential used as a zero reference.

Ground as a noun (countable, cricket):

The area of grass on which a match is played (a cricket field); the entire arena in which it is played; the part of the field behind a batsman's popping crease where he can not be run out (hence to make one's ground).

Ground as a noun (music):

A composition in which the bass, consisting of a few bars of independent notes, is continually repeated to a varying melody.

Ground as a noun (music):

The tune on which descants are raised; the plain song.

Ground as a noun:

The pit of a theatre.

Ground as a verb (US):

To connect (an electrical conductor or device) to a ground.

Ground as a verb (transitive):

To punish, especially a child or teenager, by forcing him/her to stay at home and/or give up certain privileges.

Ground as a verb (transitive):

To forbid (an aircraft or pilot) to fly.

Ground as a verb:

To give a basic education in a particular subject; to instruct in elements or first principles.

Ground as a verb (baseball):

to hit a ground ball; to hit a ground ball which results in an out. Compare fly (verb(regular)) and line (verb).

Ground as a verb (cricket):

(of a batsman) to place his bat, or part of his body, on the ground behind the popping crease so as not to be run out

Ground as a verb (intransitive):

To run aground; to strike the bottom and remain fixed.

Ground as a verb:

To found; to fix or set, as on a foundation, reason, or principle; to furnish a ground for; to fix firmly.

Ground as a verb (fine arts):

To cover with a ground, as a copper plate for etching, or as paper or other materials with a uniform tint as a preparation for ornament.

Ground as a verb:

To improve or focus the mental or emotional state of.

Ground as a verb:

Ground as an adjective:

Crushed, or reduced to small particles.

Ground as an adjective:

Processed by grinding.