Field vs. Paddock — What's the Difference?

A broad, level, open expanse of land.

A paddock is a small enclosure for horses. In the United Kingdom, this term also applies to a field for a general automobile racing competition, particularly Formula 1.

A meadow

A fenced area, usually near a stable, used chiefly for grazing horses.

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

An enclosure at a racetrack where the horses are assembled, saddled, and paraded before each race.

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

An area of an automobile racetrack where cars are prepared before a race.

A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice.

(Australian) A piece of fenced-in land.

A battleground.

To confine in a paddock.

(Archaic) A battle.

A small enclosure or field of grassland, especially one used to exercise or graze horses or other animals.

The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers

(by extension)

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

(horse racing) An enclosure next to a racecourse where horses are paraded and mounted before a race and unsaddled after a race.

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

(motor racing) An area at a racing circuit where the racing vehicles are parked and worked on before and between races.

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

A field on which a game is played; a playing field.

An area or region where business activities are conducted

A field of grassland of any size, either enclosed by fences or delimited by geographical boundaries, especially a large area for keeping cattle or sheep.

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

A place in a superficial deposit where ore or washing]] is excavated; also, a place for storing ore, washdirt, etc.

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

A frog.

In baseball, one of the three sections of the outfield

A toad.

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

(derogatory) A contemptible, or malicious or nasty, person.

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

(Scotland) A simple, usually triangular, sledge which is dragged along the ground to transport items.

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

To place or keep (cattle, horses, sheep, or other animals) within a paddock (noun sense 1 or 2.4); hence, to provide (such animals) with pasture.

The people running in an election for a political office

To enclose or fence in (land) to form a paddock.

(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.

(mining)

(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.

To excavate washing]] from (a superficial deposit).

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

(obsolete) To store (ore, washdirt, etc.) in a paddock (noun sense 2.5).

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

A toad or frog.

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

A small inclosure or park for sporting.

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

A small inclosure for pasture; esp., one adjoining a stable.

Made, used, or carried on in the field

An enclosure used for saddling and mounting horses prior to a race.

Working, operating, or active in the field

Pen where racehorses are saddled and paraded before a race

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

To respond to or deal with

(Sports) To place in the playing area

To nominate in an election

To put into action; deploy

To enter (data) into a field.

To play as a fielder

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

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

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

(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

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

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.

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;