different between plot vs field

English

Etymology

From Middle English plot, plotte, from Old English plot (“a plot of ground”), from Proto-Germanic *plataz, *platjaz (“a patch”), of uncertain origin. Cognate with Middle Low German plet (“patch, strip of cloth, rags”), German Bletz (“rags, bits, strip of land”), Gothic ???????????????????? (plats, “a patch, rags”). See also plat. See also complot for an influence on or source of the "secret plan" sense.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pl?t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /pl?t/
• Rhymes: -?t

Noun

plot (plural plots)

1. (authorship) The course of a story, comprising a series of incidents which are gradually unfolded, sometimes by unexpected means. [from 1640s]

   Synonym: storyline

   • c. 1725, Alexander Pope, View of the Epic Poem

2. An area or land used for building on or planting on. [from 1550s]

   Synonym: parcel

3. A graph or diagram drawn by hand or produced by a mechanical or electronic device.
4. A secret plan to achieve an end, the end or means usually being illegal or otherwise questionable. [from 1580s]

   Synonyms: conspiracy, scheme

5. Contrivance; deep reach thought; ability to plot or intrigue.
   • a. 1669, John Denham, On Mr Thomas Killigrew's Return from Venice, and Mr William Murrey's from Scotland

6. Participation in any stratagem or conspiracy.
7. A plan; a purpose.
   • 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The Rule and Exercises of Holy Living

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

plot (third-person singular simple present plots, present participle plotting, simple past and past participle plotted)

1. (transitive) To conceive (a crime, etc).

2. (transitive) To trace out (a graph or diagram).

3. (transitive) To mark (a point on a graph, chart, etc).
   • 1602, Richard Carew, Survey on Cornwall

4. (intransitive) To conceive a crime, misdeed, etc.

Synonyms

• (contrive): becast
• (conceive a crime, etc): scheme
• (an area of land): lot

Derived terms

• replot

Translations

Anagrams

• OLTP, PTOL, lopt, polt

Albanian

Etymology

From plotë.

Adverb

plot

1. full, fully, full of

Czech

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plot?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?plot]

Noun

plot m

1. fence

Declension

Derived terms

• živý plot m

Related terms

• oplotit

Further reading

• plot in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• plot in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?t

Verb

plot

1. first-, second- and third-person singular present indicative of plotten
2. imperative of plotten

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /plo/
• Rhymes: -o

Noun

plot m (plural plots)

1. traffic cone
2. cone used in slalom

Luxembourgish

Verb

plot

1. third-person singular present indicative of ploen
2. second-person plural present indicative of ploen
3. second-person plural imperative of ploen

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pl?t/

Noun

plot f

1. genitive plural of plota

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *plot?.

Noun

pl?t m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. fence

Declension

Spanish

Noun

plot m (plural plots)

1. (story-telling) plot

English

Etymology

From Middle English field, feeld, feld, from Old English feld (“field; open or cultivated land, plain; battlefield”), from Proto-West Germanic *felþu, from Proto-Germanic *felþuz, *felþaz, *felþ? (“field”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pleh?- (“field, plain”) or *pleth?- (“flat”) (with schwebeablaut).

Cognate with Scots feld, feild (“field”), North Frisian fjild (“field”), West Frisian fjild (“field”), Dutch veld (“field”), German Feld (“field”), Swedish fält (“field”). Related also to Old English folde (“earth, land, territory”), Old English folm (“palm of the hand”). More at fold.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fi?ld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fild/
• Rhymes: -i?ld

Noun

field (plural fields)

2. A land area free of woodland, cities, and towns; open country.
   1. (usually in the plural) The open country near or belonging to a town or city.
      1. An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.
4. A wide, open space that is usually used to grow crops or to hold farm animals.
   2. (geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

5. A place where competitive matches are carried out.
   2. A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.
   4. An area reserved for playing a game or race with one’s physical force.
      1. (baseball, obsolete) The team in a match that throws the ball and tries to catch it when it is hit by the other team (the bat).
      2. (baseball) The outfield.
   5. A place where competitive matches are carried out with figures, playing field, in a board game or in a computer game.
   6. A competitive situation, circumstances in which one faces conflicting moves of rivals.
   7. (metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

6. Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.
   2. (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.

   3. Any of certain structures serving cognition.
      1. The extent of a given perception.

      2. A realm of practical, direct or natural operation, contrasted with an office, classroom, or laboratory.

      4. A domain of study, knowledge or practice.

      5. An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement.
      7. (algebra) A commutative ring satisfying the field axioms.

   4. A physical or virtual location for the input of information in the form of symbols.
      2. (heraldry) The background of the shield.
      4. (vexillology) The background of the flag.
      5. The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device.
      6. A concrete section in a form which is supposed to be filled with data.
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      7. A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored.
         2. (computing, object-oriented programming) An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls.
   5. (electronics, film, animation) Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal

Synonyms

• (course of study or domain of knowledge): area, domain, sphere, realm
• (area reserved for playing a game): course (for golf), court (for racquet sports), ground, pitch (for soccer, rugby, cricket)
• (location for the input of information): input field, box

Hypernyms

• (algebra): Euclidean domain ? principal ideal domain ? unique factorization domain, Noetherian domain ? integral domain ? commutative ring;   simple ring

Hyponyms

• (algebra): ordered field, Pythagorean field, residue field, extension field

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ????? (f?rudo)

Translations

Usage notes

In the mathematical sense, some languages, such as French, use a term that literally means "body". This denotes a division ring or skew field, not necessarily commutative. If it is clear from context that the quaternions and similar division rings are irrelevant, or that all division rings being considered are finite and therefore fields, this difference is ignored.

Verb

field (third-person singular simple present fields, present participle fielding, simple past and past participle fielded)

1. (transitive, sports) To intercept or catch (a ball) and play it.
2. (intransitive, baseball, softball, cricket, and other batting sports) 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.

3. (transitive, sports) To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game.

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

4. (transitive) To answer; to address.

   She will field questions immediately after her presentation.

5. (transitive) To defeat.

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

7. (transitive, military) To deploy in the field.

   to field a new land-mine detector

Synonyms

• (intercept or catch (a ball) and play it):
• (place a team in (a game)):
• (answer, address): address, answer, deal with, respond to

Antonyms

• (be the team throwing and catching the ball): bat

Translations

See also

• Field in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

Further reading

• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “field”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• Fidel, felid, filed, flied

Middle English

Noun

field

1. Alternative form of feeld