Field vs. Plane — What's the Difference?

A broad, level, open expanse of land.

(Mathematics) A surface containing all the straight lines that connect any two points on it.

A meadow

A flat or level surface.

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

A level of development, existence, or achievement

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

An airplane or hydroplane.

A wide unbroken expanse, as of ice.

A supporting surface of an airplane; an airfoil or wing.

A battleground.

A carpenter's tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing and leveling wood.

(Archaic) A battle.

A trowel-shaped tool for smoothing the surface of clay, sand, or plaster in a mold.

The scene or an area of military operations or maneuvers

The plane tree.

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

(Mathematics) Of or being a figure lying in a plane

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

Flat; level.

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

To smooth or finish with a plane

An area or region where business activities are conducted

To remove with a plane

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 work with a plane.

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

To rise partly out of the water, as a hydroplane does at high speeds.

In baseball, one of the three sections of the outfield

To soar or glide.

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

To travel by airplane.

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

Of a surface: flat or level.

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

A level or flat surface.

The people running in an election for a political office

(geometry) A flat surface extending infinitely in all directions (e.g. horizontal or vertical plane). Category:en:Surfaces

(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.

(anatomy) An imaginary plane which divides the body into two portions.

(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.

A level of existence or development.

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

A roughly flat, thin, often moveable structure used to create lateral force by the flow of air or water over its surface, found on aircraft, submarines, etc. (Compare airfoil, hydrofoil.)}}

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

Any of 17 designated ranges of 2¹⁶ (65,536) sequential code points each.

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

A tool for smoothing wood by removing thin layers from the surface.

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

An airplane; an aeroplane.

Made, used, or carried on in the field

(entomology) Any of various nymphalid butterflies, of various genera, having a slow gliding flight.

Working, operating, or active in the field

(entomology) The butterfly Bindahara phocides, family Lycaenidae, of Asia and Australasia.

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

(countable) A deciduous tree of the genus Platanus.

To respond to or deal with

(Northern UK) A sycamore.

(Sports) To place in the playing area

To smooth (wood) with a plane.

To nominate in an election

To move in a way that lifts the bow out of the water.

To put into action; deploy

To glide or soar.

To enter (data) into a field.

Any tree of the genus Platanus.

To play as a fielder

A surface, real or imaginary, in which, if any two points are taken, the straight line which joins them lies wholly in that surface; or a surface, any section of which by a like surface is a straight line; a surface without curvature.

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

An ideal surface, conceived as coinciding with, or containing, some designated astronomical line, circle, or other curve; as, the plane of an orbit; the plane of the ecliptic, or of the equator.

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

A block or plate having a perfectly flat surface, used as a standard of flatness; a surface plate.

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

A tool for smoothing boards or other surfaces of wood, for forming moldings, etc. It consists of a smooth-soled stock, usually of wood, from the under side or face of which projects slightly the steel cutting edge of a chisel, called the iron, which inclines backward, with an apperture in front for the escape of shavings; as, the jack plane; the smoothing plane; the molding plane, etc.

(geology) A region containing a particular mineral.

Without elevations or depressions; even; level; flat; lying in, or constituting, a plane; as, a plane surface.

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

To make smooth; to level; to pare off the inequalities of the surface of, as of a board or other piece of wood, by the use of a plane; as, to plane a plank.

A place where competitive matches are carried out.

To efface or remove.

A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield.

Figuratively, to make plain or smooth.

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

Of a boat, to lift more or less out of the water while in motion, after the manner of a hydroplane; to hydroplane.

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

An aircraft that has a fixed wing and is powered by propellers or jets;

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

(mathematics) an unbounded two-dimensional shape;

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

A level of existence or development;

Any of various figurative meanings, often dead metaphors.

A power tool for smoothing or shaping wood

(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.

A carpenter's hand tool with an adjustable blade for smoothing or shaping wood;

Any of certain structures serving cognition.

Cut or remove with or as if with a plane;

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

Travel on the surface of water

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

Make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane;

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

Having a horizontal surface in which no part is higher or lower than another;

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;