Field vs. Group — What's the Difference?

A broad, level, open expanse of land.

An assemblage of persons or objects gathered or located together; an aggregation

A meadow

A set of two or more figures that make up a unit or design, as in sculpture.

A cultivated expanse of land, especially one devoted to a particular crop

A number of individuals or things considered or classed together because of similarities

A portion of land or a geologic formation containing a specified natural resource

(Linguistics) A category of related languages that is less inclusive than a family.

A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice.

A military unit consisting of two or more battalions and a headquarters.

A battleground.

A unit of two or more squadrons in the US Air Force, smaller than a wing.

(Archaic) A battle.

Two or more atoms behaving or regarded as behaving as a single chemical unit.

The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers

A column in the periodic table of the elements.

A background area, as on a flag, painting, or coin

(Geology) A stratigraphic unit, especially a unit consisting of two or more formations deposited during a single geologic era.

(Heraldry) The background of a shield or one of the divisions of the background.

(Mathematics) A set, together with a binary associative operation, such that the set is closed under the operation, the set contains an identity element for the operation, and each element of the set has an inverse element with respect to the operation. The integers form a group under the operation of ordinary addition.

An area or setting of practical activity or application outside an office, school, factory, or laboratory

Of, relating to, constituting, or being a member of a group

An area or region where business activities are conducted

To place or arrange in a group

An area in which an athletic event takes place, especially the area inside or near to a running track, where field events are held.

To belong to or form a group

In baseball, the positions on defense or the ability to play defense

A number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

In baseball, one of the three sections of the outfield

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

A range, area, or subject of human activity, interest, or knowledge

An effective divisor on a curve.

The contestants or participants in a competition or athletic event, especially those other than the favorite or winner.

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

The body of riders following a pack of hounds in hunting.

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

The people running in an election for a political office

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

(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.

(chemistry) A functional group.

(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.

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

The usually circular area in which the image is rendered by the lens system of an optical instrument; field of view.

(military) An air force formation.

An element of a database record in which one piece of information is stored.

(geology) A collection of formations or rock strata.

A space, as on an online form or request for information, that accepts the input of text

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

Growing, cultivated, or living in fields or open land.

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

Made, used, or carried on in the field

(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.

Working, operating, or active in the field

(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.

(Sports) To catch or pick up (a ball) and often make a throw to another player, especially in baseball.

(business) A commercial organization.

To respond to or deal with

(transitive) To put together to form a group.

(Sports) To place in the playing area

(intransitive) To come together to form a group.

To nominate in an election

A cluster, crowd, or throng; an assemblage, either of persons or things, collected without any regular form or arrangement; as, a group of men or of trees; a group of isles.

To put into action; deploy

An assemblage of objects in a certain order or relation, or having some resemblance or common characteristic; as, groups of strata.

To enter (data) into a field.

A variously limited assemblage of animals or plants, having some resemblance, or common characteristics in form or structure. The term has different uses, and may be made to include certain species of a genus, or a whole genus, or certain genera, or even several orders.

To play as a fielder

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.

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

To form a group of; to arrange or combine in a group or in groups, often with reference to mutual relation and the best effect; to form an assemblage of.

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

Any number of entities (members) considered as a unit

A wide, open space that is used to grow crops or to hold farm animals, usually enclosed by a fence, hedge or other barrier.

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

(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

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

An airfield, airport or air base; especially, one with unpaved runways.

Arrange into a group or groups;

A place where competitive matches are carried out.

Form a group or group together

A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

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

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

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

(metonymically) All of the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or all except the favourites in the betting.

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

(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.

Any of certain structures serving cognition.

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

Part (usually one half) of a frame in an interlaced signal

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

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

To place a team, its players, etc. in a game.

(transitive) To answer; to address.

(transitive) To defeat.

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

To deploy in the field.

Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.

A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.

A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.

An open space; an extent; an expanse.

The whole surface of an escutcheon; also, so much of it is shown unconcealed by the different bearings upon it. See Illust. of Fess, where the field is represented as gules (red), while the fess is argent (silver).

An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.

A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.

That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; - called also outfield.

To take the field.

To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.

To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.

A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed;

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

Somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected;

A branch of knowledge;

The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it

A particular kind of commercial enterprise;

A particular environment or walk of life;

A piece of land prepared for playing a game;

Extensive tract of level open land;

(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;

A region in which active military operations are in progress;

All of the horses in a particular horse race

All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event

A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found;

(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information

The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument)

A place where planes take off and land

Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket

Play as a fielder

Answer adequately or successfully;

Select (a team or individual player) for a game;