Field vs. Sector
Difference Between Field and Sector
Fieldnoun
A broad, level, open expanse of land.
Sectornoun
A part or division, as of a city or a national economy
the manufacturing sector.Fieldnoun
A meadow
cows grazing in a field.Sectornoun
The portion of a circle bounded by two radii and the included arc.
Fieldnoun
A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop
a field of corn.Sectornoun
A measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged together at one end.
Fieldnoun
A portion of land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource
a copper field.Sectornoun
(Computers) A portion of a storage device making up the smallest addressable unit of information.
Fieldnoun
A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice.
Sectornoun
A division of a defensive position for which one military unit is responsible.
Fieldnoun
A battleground.
Sectornoun
A division of an offensive military position.
Fieldnoun
(Archaic) A battle.
Sectorverb
To divide (something) into sectors.
Fieldnoun
The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers
officers in the field.Sectornoun
section
Fieldnoun
A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin
a blue insignia on a field of red.Sectornoun
zone (designated area).
Fieldnoun
(Heraldry) The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background.
Sectornoun
(geometry) part of a circle, extending to the center
Fieldnoun
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.Sectornoun
(computing) fixed-sized unit (traditionally 512 bytes) of sequential data stored on a track of a digital medium (compare to block)
Fieldnoun
An area or region where business activities are conducted
sales representatives in the field.Sectornoun
(military) an area designated by boundaries within which a unit operates, and for which it is responsible
Fieldnoun
An area in which an athletic event takes place, especially the area inside or near to a running track, where field events are held.
Sectornoun
(military) one of the subdivisions of a coastal frontier
Fieldnoun
In baseball, the positions on defense or the ability to play defense
She excels in the field.Sectornoun
(science fiction) a fictional region of space designated for navigational or governance purposes.
Fieldnoun
In baseball, one of the three sections of the outfield
He can hit to any field.Sectornoun
(calculation) an instrument consisting of two rulers of equal length joined by a hinge.
Fieldnoun
A range, area, or subject of human activity, interest, or knowledge
several fields of endeavor.Sectornoun
a field of economic activity
public sector;private sectorFieldnoun
The contestants or participants in a competition or athletic event, especially those other than the favorite or winner.
Sectornoun
(engineering) A toothed gear whose face is the arc of a circle.
Fieldnoun
The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.
Sectornoun
a plane figure bounded by two radii and the included arc of a circle
Fieldnoun
The people running in an election for a political office
The field has been reduced to three candidates.Sectornoun
a body of people who form part of society or economy;
the public sectorFieldnoun
(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.
Sectornoun
a particular aspect of life or activity;
he was helpless in an important sector of his lifeFieldnoun
(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.
Sectornoun
the minimum track length that can be assigned to store information; unless otherwise specified a sector of data consists of 512 bytes
Fieldnoun
The usually circular area in which the image is rendered by the lens system of an optical instrument; field of view.
Sectornoun
a portion of a military position
Fieldnoun
An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.
Sectornoun
measuring instrument consisting of two graduated arms hinged at one end
Fieldnoun
A space, as on an online form or request for information, that accepts the input of text
an address field.Fieldadjective
Growing, cultivated, or living in fields or open land.
Fieldadjective
Made, used, or carried on in the field
field operations.Fieldadjective
Working, operating, or active in the field
field representatives of a firm.Fieldverb
(Sports) To catch or pick up (a ball) and often make a throw to another player, especially in baseball.
Fieldverb
To respond to or deal with
fielded tough questions from the press.Fieldverb
(Sports) To place in the playing area
field a team.Fieldverb
To nominate in an election
field a candidate.Fieldverb
To put into action; deploy
field an army of campaign workers.Fieldverb
To enter (data) into a field.
Fieldverb
To play as a fielder
How well can he field?.Fieldnoun
A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
There are several species of wild flowers growing in this field.Fieldnoun
The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
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.Fieldnoun
(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.
oil field;gold fieldFieldnoun
A place where competitive matches are carried out.
Fieldnoun
A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
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.Fieldnoun
A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a boardgame or in a computer game.
Fieldnoun
A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
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.Fieldnoun
Any of various figurative meanings, regularly dead metaphors.
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 fieldFieldnoun
Any of certain structures serving cognition.
Fieldnoun
A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
Fieldverb
To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
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.Fieldverb
To place (a team) in a game.
The away team fielded two new players and the second-choice goalkeeper.Fieldverb
(transitive) To answer; to address.
She will field questions immediately after her presentation.Fieldverb
(transitive) To defeat.
They fielded a fearsome army.Fieldverb
(transitive) To execute research (in the field).
He fielded the marketing survey about the upcoming product.Fieldverb
To deploy in the field.
to field a new land-mine detectorFieldnoun
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed;
he planted a field of wheatFieldnoun
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought;
they made a tour of Civil War battlefieldsFieldnoun
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 fieldFieldnoun
a branch of knowledge;
in what discipline is his doctorate?teachers should be well trained in their subjectanthropology is the study of human beingsFieldnoun
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 fieldFieldnoun
a particular environment or walk of life;
his social sphere is limitedit was a closed area of employmenthe's out of my orbitFieldnoun
a piece of land prepared for playing a game;
the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the fieldFieldnoun
extensive tract of level open land;
they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plainhe longed for the fields of his youthFieldnoun
(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 fieldFieldnoun
a region in which active military operations are in progress;
the army was in the field awaiting actionhe served in the Vietnam theater for three yearsFieldnoun
all of the horses in a particular horse race
Fieldnoun
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event
Fieldnoun
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found;
the diamond fields of South AfricaFieldnoun
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information
Fieldnoun
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)
Fieldnoun
a place where planes take off and land
Fieldverb
catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket
Fieldverb
play as a fielder
Fieldverb
answer adequately or successfully;
The lawyer fielded all questions from the pressFieldverb
select (a team or individual player) for a game;
The Patriots fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl
