field – English noun declension

English noun forms of field

Noun: field
Singularfield
Pluralfields

Sample Sentences

  • There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.
  • Harry shook his head, and wandered away miserable through the fields, and would not in these days even set his foot upon the soil of the park. “He was not going to intrude any farther,” he said to the rector. “You can come to church, at any rate,” his father said, “for he certainly will not be there while you are at the parsonage.” Oh yes, Harry would go to the church. “I have yet to understand that Mr. Prosper is owner of the church, and the path there from the rectory is, at any rate, open to the public;” for at Buston the church stands on one corner of the park. [1883, Anthony Trollope, Mr. Scarborough's Family, Chap. XXIV:]
  • I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed. And thus we came by a circuitous route to Mohair, the judge occupied by his own guilty thoughts, and I by others not less disturbing. [1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter VIII, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:]
  • There were some cows grazing in a field.
  • A crop circle was made in a corn field.
  • The castled crag of Drachenfels
  • Frowns o’er the wide and winding Rhine
  • Whose breast of waters broadly swells
  • Between the banks which bear the vine
  • And hills all rich with blossomed trees
  • And fields which promise corn and wine
  • And scatter’d cities crowning these
  • Whose far white walls along them shine,
  • Have strew’d a scene, which I should see
  • With double joy wert thou with mo. [1816, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the Third, LV:]
  • Anstruther laughed good-naturedly. “[…] I shall take out half a dozen intelligent maistries from our Press and get them to give our villagers instruction when they begin work and when they are in the fields.” [1927, F. E. Penny, chapter 5, in Pulling the Strings:]
  • an oil field; a gold field
  • Tarry, sweet soul, for mine; then fly abreast,
  • As in this glorious and well-foughten field
  • We kept together in our chivalry! [c. 1599, William Shakespeare, King Henry V, act IV, scene VI:]
  • […] What though the field be lost?
  • All is not lost; th’ unconquerable will,
  • And study of revenge, immortal hate,
  • And courage never to submit or yield,
  • And what is else not to be overcome;
  • That glory never shall his wrath or might! [1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, Verses 105–110:]
  • soccer field
  • Substitutes are only allowed onto the field after their boots are checked.
  • Blake was a thorough gambler, and knew well how to make the most of the numerous chances which the turf afforded him. He had a large stud of horses, to the training and working of which he attended almost as closely as the person whom he paid for doing so. But it was in the betting-ring that he was most formidable. It was said, in Kildare Street, that no one at Tattersall's could beat him at a book. He had latterly been trying a wider field than the Curragh supplied him and had, on one or two occasions, run a horse in England with such success, as had placed him, at any rate, quite at the top of the Irish sporting tree. [1848, Anthony Trollope, The Kellys and the O’Kellys, Chap. III:]
  • Dr. Finn understood enough of elections for Parliament, and of the nature of boroughs, to be aware that a candidate’s chance of success is very much improved by being early in the field. [1869, Anthony Trollope, Phineas Finn, Chap. XXV:]
  • This racehorse is the strongest in a weak field.
  • magnetic field; gravitational field; scalar field
  • field of view
  • The design needs to be field-tested before we commit to manufacture.
  • Field work traditionally distinguishes true archaeologists from armchair archaeologists.
  • He needs some time in the field before his judgment can be trusted.
  • 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. [2013 May 10, Audrey Garric, “Urban canopies let nature bloom”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 22, page 30:]
  • He was an expert in the field of Chinese history.
  • 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. [1848, Thomas Macaulay, chapter IV, in The History Of England From the Accession of James II, volume 1:]
  • 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. [1873 May 1 – December 22 (date written), Anthony Trollope, chapter 2, in The Way We Live Now. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published June 1875, →OCLC:]
  • The set of rational numbers, #92;mathbb#123;Q#125;, is the prototypical field.
  • Whereas a ring has three binary operators: (1) an additive operator, (2) a subtractive operator, and (3) a multiplicative operator, a field has four binary operators: the three ring binary operators and (4) a divisive operator. (N.B.: Only the additive and multiplicative operators are axiomatic. The subtractive operator may be derived by combining the additive and the unary negative operators; the divisive operator may be derived by combining the multiplicative and the unary inversive operators.)
  • The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain. [1957 February 26, “B.T.C. Armorial Bearings”, in Railway Magazine, page 81:]
  • The form has fields for each element of the customer's home address and shipping address.
  • 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.
  • Read-only fields allow you to establish a point of data whose value is not known at compile time, but that should never change once established. [2007, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# with .NET 3.0, Special Edition, page 82:]
  • The manager should always choose his own Eleven; and, we have already hinted that fielding, rather than batting, is the qualification. A good field is sure to save runs, though the best batsman may not make any. [1854, James Pycroft, The Cricket Field:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English feeld, feld (“field”), from Old English feld (“field”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu (“field”), from Proto-Germanic *felþuz (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂- (“field, plain”) or *pleth₂- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fial, fälj (“field”), Saterland Frisian Fäild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German and Luxembourgish Feld (“field”), Vilamovian fald (“field”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk felt (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”), Finnish pelto (“field”), Asturian and Leonese platu (“plate”), Aragonese and Spanish plato (“plate”), Catalan plat (“plate”), French plat (“dish”), Galician, Mirandese, and Portuguese prato (“plate”), Italian piatto (“plate”), Latin *plattus (“flattened”), Greek πλατύς (platýs, “wide, broad”). Doublet of plate. Related also to Middle English flat (“flat”), Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at flat, fold.
4. Not related to English felt. See: Middle English Nouns 'feeld', Old English Nouns 'feld', Dutch Nouns 'veld', Swedish Nouns 'fält', Finnish Nouns 'pelto', Spanish Nouns 'plato', Catalan Nouns 'plat', French Nouns 'plat', Portuguese Nouns 'prato', Italian Nouns 'piatto', Latin Nouns '*plattus', Middle English Nouns 'flat', Old English Nouns 'folde', Old English Nouns 'folm'.

Verbs referencing "field"

Finnish Nouns pelto, German Nouns Feld, Swedish Nouns fält.