Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter F - Page 22
Fibula (n.) (Surg.) A needle for sewing up wounds.
Fibula (n.) The outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg between the knee and ankle [syn: fibula, calf bone].
Fibu-lar (a.) Pertaining to the fibula.
Compare: Calcaneum
Calcaneum (n.; pl. E. -neums, L. -nea.) (Anal.) One of the bones of the tarsus which in man, forms the great bone of the heel; -- called also fibulare.
Fibularia (n. pl. ) of Fibulare.
Fibulare (n.) (Anat.) The bone or cartilage of the tarsus, which articulates with the fibula, and corresponds to the calcaneum in man and most mammals.
Fice (n.) A small dog; -- written also fise, fyce, fiste, etc. [Southern U.S.]
Fice (n.) A nervous belligerent little mongrel dog [syn: feist, fice].
Fiche (a.) (Her.) See FitchE.
Fichtelite (n.) (Min.) A white crystallized mineral resin from the Fichtelgebirge, Bavaria.
Fichu (n.) A light cape, usually of lace, worn by women, to cover the neck and throat, and extending to the shoulders.
Fickle (a.) 易變的，無常的 Not fixed or firm; liable to change; unstable; of a changeable mind; not firm in opinion or purpose; inconstant; capricious; as, Fortune's fickle wheel. -- Shak.
They know how fickle common lovers are. -- Dryden.
Syn: Wavering; irresolute; unsettled; vacillating; unstable; inconsonant; unsteady; variable; mutable; changeful; capricious; veering; shifting.
Fickle (a.) Marked by erratic changeableness in affections or attachments; "fickle friends"; "a flirt's volatile affections" [syn: fickle, volatile].
Fickle (a.) Liable to sudden unpredictable change; "erratic behavior"; "fickle weather"; "mercurial twists of temperament"; "a quicksilver character, cool and willful at one moment, utterly fragile the next" [syn: erratic, fickle, mercurial, quicksilver(a)].
Fickleness (n.) 浮躁；變化無常 The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy. -- Shak.
Fickleness (n.) Unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous [syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy].
Fickly (adv.) In a fickle manner. [Obs.] -- Pepys.
Ficoes (n. pl. ) of Fico.
Fico (n.) (Fico) （美）菲科（人名）；無價值的東西；無花果樹；無花果；（尤指適合特殊場合或職業穿的）服裝（等於 fig） A fig; an insignificant trifle, no more than the snap of one's thumb; a sign of contempt made by the fingers, expressing. A fig for you.
Steal! foh, a fico for the phrase. -- Shak.
Fictile (a.) 塑造的；黏土製的 Molded, or capable of being molded, into form by art; relating to pottery or to molding in any soft material.
Fictile earth is more fragile than crude earth. -- Bacon.
The earliest specimens of Italian fictile art. -- C. Wordsworth.
Fictile ware, Ware made of any material which is molded or shaped while soft; hence, pottery of any sort. -- Fic"tile*ness, n. -- Fic*til"i*ty, n.
Fiction (n.) （總稱）小說 [U]；虛構，捏造，想像 [U] The act of feigning, inventing, or imagining; as, by a mere fiction of the mind. -- Bp. Stillingfleet.
Fiction (n.) That which is feigned, invented, or imagined; especially, a feigned or invented story, whether oral or written. Hence: A story told in order to deceive; a fabrication; -- opposed to fact, or reality.
The fiction of those golden apples kept by a dragon. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
When it could no longer be denied that her flight had been voluntary, numerous fictions were invented to account for it. -- Macaulay.
Fiction (n.) Fictitious literature; comprehensively, all works of imagination; specifically, novels and romances.
The office of fiction as a vehicle of instruction and moral elevation has been recognized by most if not all great educators. -- Dict. of Education.
Fiction (n.) (Law) An assumption of a possible thing as a fact, irrespective of the question of its truth. -- Wharton.
Fiction (n.) Any like assumption made for convenience, as for passing more rapidly over what is not disputed, and arriving at points really at issue.
Syn: Fabrication; invention; fable; falsehood.
Usage: Fiction, Fabrication. Fiction is opposed to what is real; fabrication to what is true. Fiction is designed commonly to amuse, and sometimes to instruct; a fabrication is always intended to mislead and deceive. In the novels of Sir Walter Scott we have fiction of the highest order. The poems of Ossian, so called, were chiefly fabrications by Macpherson.
Fiction (n.) A literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact.
Fiction (n.) A deliberately false or improbable account [syn: fabrication, fiction, fable].
Fiction (n.) (B1) [ U ] 小說 The type of book or story that is written about imaginary characters and events and not based on real people and facts.
// The book is a work of fiction and not intended as a historical account.
// A writer of children's fiction.
Fiction (n.) (C1) [ C or U ] 虛構的事；謊言 A false report or statement that you pretend is true.
// [ + that ] At work she kept up the fiction that she had a university degree.
// When he's telling you something, you never know what's fact and what's fiction.
Non-fiction (n.) [ U ] 記實文學，寫實文學 Writing that is about real events and facts, rather than stories that have been invented.
Fictional (a.) 虛構的；小說的 Pertaining to, or characterized by, fiction; fictitious; romantic. "Fictional rather than historical." -- Latham.
Fictional (a.) Related to or involving literary fiction; "clever fictional devices"; "a fictional treatment of the train robbery" [ant: nonfictional].
Fictional (a.) Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious].
Fictionist (n.) A writer of fiction. [R.] -- Lamb.
Fictious (a.) Fictitious. [R.] -- Prior.
Fictitious (a.) 虛構的；非真實的；假的，假裝的 Feigned; imaginary; not real; fabulous; counterfeit; false; not genuine; as, fictitious fame.
The human persons are as fictitious as the airy ones. -- Pope. -- Fic*ti"tious*ly, adv. -- Fic*ti"tious*ness, n.
Fictitious (a.) Formed or conceived by the imagination; "a fabricated excuse for his absence"; "a fancied wrong"; "a fictional character" [syn: fabricated, fancied, fictional, fictitious].
Fictitious (a.) Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham].
Fictive (a.) Feigned; counterfeit. "The fount of fictive tears." -- Tennyson.
Fictive (a.) Adopted in order to deceive; "an assumed name"; "an assumed cheerfulness"; "a fictitious address"; "fictive sympathy"; "a pretended interest"; "a put-on childish voice"; "sham modesty" [syn: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, pretended, put on, sham].
Fictive (a.) Capable of imaginative creation; "fictive talent".
Fictor (n.) An artist who models or forms statues and reliefs in any plastic material. [R.] -- Elmes.
Ficus (n.) A genus of trees or shrubs, one species of which (F. Carica) produces the figs of commerce; the fig tree.
Note: Ficus Indica is the banyan tree; F. religiosa, the peepul tree; F. elastica, the India-rubber tree.
Ficus (n.) Large genus of tropical trees or shrubs or climbers including fig trees [syn: Ficus, genus Ficus].
Fid (n.) (Naut.) A square bar of wood or iron, used to support the topmast, being passed through a hole or mortise at its heel, and resting on the trestle trees.
Fid (n.) A wooden or metal bar or pin, used to support or steady anything.
Fid (n.) A pin of hard wood, tapering to a point, used to open the strands of a rope in splicing.
Note: There are hand fids and standing fids (which are larger than the others, and stand upon a flat base). An iron implement for this purpose is called a marline spike.
Fid (n.) (Mil.) A block of wood used in mounting and dismounting heavy guns.
FID, () File Identifier Descriptor (UDF, CD-R)
FID, () File IDentifier (APDU)
Fidalgo (n.) The lowest title of nobility in Portugal, corresponding to that of Hidalgo in Spain.
Fiddle (n.) (Mus.) A stringed instrument of music played with a bow; a violin; a kit.
Fiddle (n.) (Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
Fiddle (n.) (Naut.) A rack or frame of bars connected by strings, to keep table furniture in place on the cabin table in bad weather. -- Ham. Nav. Encyc.
Fiddle beetle (Zool.), A Japanese carabid beetle ({Damaster blaptoides); -- so called from the form of the body.
Fiddle block (Naut.), A long tackle block having two sheaves of different diameters in the same plane, instead of side by side as in a common double block. -- Knight.
Fiddle bow, Fiddlestick.
Fiddle fish (Zool.), The angel fish.
Fiddle head, See fiddle head in the vocabulary.
Fiddle pattern, A form of the handles of spoons, forks, etc., somewhat like a violin.
Scotch fiddle, The itch. (Low)
To play first fiddle, or To play second fiddle, To take a leading or a subordinate part. [Colloq.]
Fiddled (imp. & p. p.) of Fiddle.
Fiddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fiddle.
Fiddle (v. i.) To play on a fiddle.
Themistocles . . . said he could not fiddle, but he could make a small town a great city. -- Bacon.
Fiddle (v. i.) To keep the hands and fingers actively moving as a fiddler does; to move the hands and fingers restlessy or in busy idleness; to trifle.
Talking, and fiddling with their hats and feathers. -- Pepys.
Fiddle (v. t.) To play (a tune) on a fiddle.
Fiddle (n.) Bowed stringed instrument that is the highest member of the violin family; this instrument has four strings and a hollow body and an unfretted fingerboard and is played with a bow [syn: violin, fiddle].
Fiddle (v.) Avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties" [syn: fiddle, shirk, shrink from, goldbrick].
Fiddle (v.) Commit fraud and steal from one's employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years".
Fiddle (v.) Play the violin or fiddle.
Fiddle (v.) Play on a violin; "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely".
Fiddle (v.) Manipulate manually or in one's mind or imagination; "She played nervously with her wedding ring"; "Don't fiddle with the screws"; "He played with the idea of running for the Senate" [syn: toy, fiddle, diddle, play].
Fiddle (v.) Play around with or alter or falsify, usually secretively or dishonestly; "Someone tampered with the documents on my desk"; "The reporter fiddle with the facts" [syn: tamper, fiddle, monkey].
Fiddle (v.) Try to fix or mend; "Can you tinker with the T.V. set--it's not working right"; "She always fiddles with her van on the weekend" [syn: tinker, fiddle].
FIDDLE, (n.) An instrument to tickle human ears by friction of a horse's tail on the entrails of a cat.
To Rome said Nero: "If to smoke you turn I shall not cease to fiddle while you burn."
To Nero Rome replied: "Pray do your worst, 'Tis my excuse that you were fiddling first." Orm Pludge
Fiddledeedee (interj.) An exclamatory word or phrase, equivalent to nonsense! [Colloq.]
Foddle-faddle (n.) A trifle; trifling talk; nonsense. [Colloq.] -- Spectator.
Fiddle-faddle (v. i.) To talk nonsense. [Colloq.] -- Ford.
Fiddle-faddle (n.) Trivial nonsense [syn: balderdash, fiddle-faddle, piffle].
Fiddler (n.) One who plays on a fiddle or violin.
Fiddler (n.) (Zool.) A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and fighting crab.
Fiddler (n.) (Zool.) The common European sandpiper (Tringoides hypoleucus); -- so called because it continually oscillates its body.
Fiddler crab. (Zool.) See Fiddler, n., 2.
Fiddler (n.) A musician who plays the violin [syn: violinist, fiddler].
Fiddler (n.) Someone who manipulates in a nervous or unconscious manner [syn: twiddler, fiddler].
Fiddler (n.) An unskilled person who tries to fix or mend [syn: tinkerer, fiddler].
Fiddle-shaped (a.) Shaped like a fiddle; -- of a leaf shape.
Syn: pandurate, panduriform.
Fiddle-shaped (a.) (Bot.) Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. -- Gray.
Fiddle-shaped (a.) (Of a leaf shape) Having rounded ends and a contracted center [syn: pandurate, panduriform, fiddle-shaped].
Fiddlestick (n.) The bow, strung with horsehair, used in playing the fiddle; a fiddle bow.
Fiddlestick (n.) A bow used in playing the violin [syn: fiddlestick, violin bow].
Fiddlestring (n.) One of the catgut strings of a fiddle.
Fiddlewood (n.) The wood of several West Indian trees, mostly of the genus Citharexylum.
Fidejussion (n.) (Civil Law) The act or state of being bound as surety for another; suretyship.
Fidejussor (n.) (Civil Law) A surety; one bound for another, conjointly with him; a guarantor. -- Blackstone.
FIDE-JUSSOR, () civil law. One who becomes security for the debt of another, promising to pay it in case the principal does not do so.
FIDE-JUSSOR, () He differs from co-obligor in this, that the latter is equally bound to a debtor with his principal, while the former is not liable till the principal has failed to fulfill his engagement. Dig. 12, 4, 4; Id. 16, 1, 13; Id. 24, 3, 64; Id. 38, 1, 37; Id. 50, 17, 110, and 14, 6, 20; Hall's Pr. 33; Dunl. Ad. Pr. 300; Clarke's Prax. tit. 63, 4, 5.
FIDE-JUSSOR, () The obligation of the fide-jussor was an accessory contract, for, if the principal obligation was not previously contracted, his engagement then took the name of mandate. Lec. Elem. Sec. 872; Code Nap. 2012.
Fidelity (n.) Faithfulness; adherence to right; careful and exact observance of duty, or discharge of obligations. Especially:
Fidelity (n.) Adherence to a person or party to which one is bound; loyalty.
Whose courageous fidelity was proof to all danger. -- Macaulay.
The best security for the fidelity of men is to make interest coincide with duty. -- A. Hamilton.
Fidelity (n.) Adherence to the marriage contract.
Fidelity (n.) Adherence to truth; veracity; honesty.
The principal thing required in a witness is fidelity. -- Hooker.
Syn: Faithfulness; honesty; integrity; faith; loyalty; fealty.
Fidelity (n.) Accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal.
Fidelity (n.) The quality of being faithful [syn: fidelity, faithfulness] [ant: infidelity, unfaithfulness].
Fidelity (n.) A virtue peculiar to those who are about to be betrayed.
Fidelity, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 105
Housing Units (2000): 44
Land area (2000): 0.111560 sq. miles (0.288938 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.111560 sq. miles (0.288938 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25960
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 39.154636 N, 90.163947 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62030
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fidelity, IL
Fidelity
Fidelity, MO -- U.S. town in Missouri
Population (2000): 252
Housing Units (2000): 106
Land area (2000): 0.967454 sq. miles (2.505695 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.967454 sq. miles (2.505695 sq. km)
FIPS code: 24120
Located within: Missouri (MO), FIPS 29
Location: 37.078350 N, 94.312165 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Fidelity, MO
Fidelity
Fidelities (n. pl.) of Fidelity.
Fidelity (n.) The quality of being faithful to your husband, wife, or sexual partner.
Fidelity (n.) The quality of being faithful or loyal to a country, organization, etc.
Fidelity (n.) The degree to which something matches or copies something else.
Fidelity (n.) The quality or state of being faithful.
Fidelity (n.) Accuracy in details : exactness.
Fidelity (n.) The degree to which an electronic device (as a record player, radio, or television) accurately reproduces its effect (as sound or picture).
Fides (n.) (Roman Muth.) Faith personified as a goddess; the goddess of faith.
Fidge (n. & i.) See Fidget.
Fidgeted (imp. & p. p.) of Fidget.
Fodgeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Fidget.
Fidget (v. i.) To move uneasily one way and the other; to move irregularly, or by fits and starts. -- Moore.
Fidget (n.) Uneasiness; restlessness. -- Cowper.
Fidget (n.) pl. A general nervous restlessness, manifested by incessant changes of position; dysphoria. -- Dunglison.
Fidget (n.) A feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness" [syn: fidget, fidgetiness, restlessness].
Fidget (v.) Move restlessly; "The child is always fidgeting in his seat".
Fidgetiness (n.) Quality of being fidgety.
Fidgetiness (n.) A feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness" [syn: fidget, fidgetiness, restlessness].
Fidgety (a.) Restless; uneasy. -- Lowell.
Fidgety (a.) Nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child" [syn: antsy, fidgety, fretful, itchy].
Fidia (n.) (Zool.) A genus of small beetles, of which one species (the grapevine Fidia, F. longipes) is very injurious to vines in America.
Fidicinal (a.) (Mus.) Of or pertaining to a stringed instrument.
Fiducial (a.) 根據信仰的；信託的；【測】基準的 Having faith or trust; confident; undoubting; firm. "Fiducial reliance on the promises of God." -- Hammond.
Fiducial (a.) Having the nature of a trust; fiduciary; as, fiducial power. -- Spelman.
{Fiducial edge} (Astron. & Surv.), The straight edge of the alidade or ruler along which a straight line is to be drawn.
{Fiducial line} or {Fiducial point} (Math. & Physics.), A line or point of reference, as for setting a graduated circle or scale used for measurements.
Fiducial (a.) Relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another); "a fiduciary contract"; "in a fiduciary capacity"; "fiducial power" [syn: {fiduciary}, {fiducial}].
Fiducial (a.) Used as a fixed standard of reference for comparison or measurement; "a fiducial point".
Fiducial (a.) Based on trust.
Fiducially (adv.) With confidence. -- South.
Fidiciary (a.) 信託的；信用發行的 Involving confidence or trust; confident; undoubting; faithful; firm; as, in a fiduciary capacity. "Fiduciary obedience." -- Howell.
Fidiciary (a.) Holding, held, or founded, in trust. -- Spelman.
Fiduciary (n.) 被信託者；受託人 One who holds a thing in trust for another; a trustee.
Instrumental to the conveying God's blessing upon those whose fiduciaries they are. -- Jer. Taylor.
Fiduciary (n.) (Theol.) One who depends for salvation on faith, without works; an Antinomian. -- Hammond.
Fiduciary (a.) Relating to or of the nature of a legal trust (i.e. the holding of something in trust for another); "a fiduciary contract"; "in a fiduciary capacity"; "fiducial power" [syn: fiduciary, fiducial].
Fiduciary (n.) A person who holds assets in trust for a beneficiary; "it is illegal for a fiduciary to misappropriate money for personal gain".
Fiduciary (n.) This term is borrowed from the civil law. The Roman laws called a fiduciary heir, the person who was instituted heir, and who was charged to deliver the succession to a person designated by the testament. Merl. Repert. h.t. But Pothier, Pand. vol. 22, h.t., says that fiduciarius heres properly signifies the person to whom a testator has sold his inheritance, under the condition that he should sell it to another. Fiduciary may be defined to be, in trust, in confidence.
Fiduciary (n.) A fiduciary contract is defined to be, an agreement by which a person delivers a thing to another, on the condition that he will restore it to him. The following formula was employed:' Ut inter bonos agere opportet, ne propter te fidemque tuam frauder. Cicer. de Offc. lib. 3, cap. 13; Lec. du Dr. Civ. Rom. Sec. 237, 238. See 2 How. S. C. Rep. 202, 208; 6 Watts & Serg. 18; 7 Watts, 415.
Fie (interj.) An exclamation denoting contempt or dislike. See Fy. -- Fuller.
Fief (n.) (Law) An estate held of a superior on condition of military service; a fee; a feud. See under Benefice, n., 2.
Fief (n.) A piece of land held under the feudal system [syn: fief, feoff].
FIEF, or FEUD. () In its origin, a fief was a district of country allotted to one of the chiefs who invaded the Roman empire, as a stipend or reward; with a condition annexed that the possessor should do service faithfully both at home and in the wars, to him by whom it was given. The law of fiefs supposed that originally all lands belonged to lords, who had had the generosity to abandon them to others, from whom the actual possessors derive their rights upon the sole reservation of certain services more or less onerous as a sign of superiority. To this superiority was added that which gives the right of dispensing justice, a right which was originally attached to all fiefs, and conferred upon those who possessed it, the most eminent part of public power. Henrion de Pansey, Pouvoir, Municipal; 2 Bl. Com. 45 Encyclopedie, h.t.; Merl. Rep. h.t.
Field (n.) 原野；田地；牧場 [C]；運動場，田賽場地；礦區，井田；（飛機）場，（戰）場；（廣闊的一大片）地 [C] Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
Field (n.) A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
Fields which promise corn and wine. -- Byron.
Field (n.) A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
In this glorious and well-foughten field. -- Shak.
What though the field be lost? -- Milton.
Field (n.) An open space; an extent; an expanse. Esp.:
Field (n.) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
Field (n.) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view; as, wide-field binoculars.
Without covering, save yon field of stars. -- Shak.
Ask of yonder argent fields above. -- Pope.
Field (n.) (Her.) 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).
Field (n.) An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
Afforded a clear field for moral experiments. -- Macaulay.
Field (n.) (Sports) An open, usually flat, piece of land on which a sports contest is played; a playing field; as, a football field; a baseball field.
Syn: playing field, athletic field, playing area.
Field (n.) Specifically: (Baseball) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
Field (n.) A geographic region (land or sea) which has some notable feature, activity or valuable resource; as, the diamond fields of South Africa; an oil field; a gold field; an ice field.
Field (n.) A facility having an airstrip where airplanes can take off and land; an airfield.
Syn: airfield, landing field, flying field, aerodrome.
Field (n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
Field (n.) A branch of knowledge or sphere of activity; especially, a learned or professional discipline; as, she's an expert in the field of geology; in what field did she get her doctorate?; they are the top company in the field of entertainment.
Syn: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field of study, study, branch of knowledge.
Note: Within the master text files of this electronic dictionary, where a word is used in a specific sense in some specialized field of knowledge, that field is indicated by the tags: () preceding that sense of the word.
Field (n.) A location, usually outdoors, away from a studio or office or library or laboratory, where practical work is done or data is collected; as, anthropologists do much of their work in the field; the paleontologist is in the field collecting specimens. Usually used in the phrase in the field.
Field (n.) (Physics) The influence of a physical object, such as an electrically charged body, which is capable of exerting force on objects at a distance; also, the region of spaceover which such an influence is effective; as, the earth's gravitational field; an electrical field; a magnetic field; a force field.
Field (n.) (Math.) A set of elements within which operations can bedefined analagous to the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division on the real numbers; within such a set of elements addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1; a commutative division ring; as, the set of all rational numbers is a field.
Note: Field is often used adjectively in the sense of belonging to, or used in, the fields; especially with reference to the operations and equipments of an army during a campaign away from permanent camps and fortifications. In most cases such use of the word is sufficiently clear; as, field battery; field fortification; field gun; field hospital, etc. A field geologist, naturalist, etc., is one who makes investigations or collections out of doors. A survey uses a field book for recording field notes, i.e., measurment, observations, etc., made in field work (outdoor operations). A farmer or planter employs field hands, and may use a field roller or a field derrick. Field sports are hunting, fishing, athletic games, etc.
Coal field (Geol.) See under Coal.
Field artillery, Light ordnance mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army.
Field basil (Bot.), A plant of the Mint family ({Calamintha Acinos); -- called also basil thyme.
Field colors (Mil.), Small flags for marking out the positions for squadrons and battalions; camp colors.
Field cricket (Zool.), A large European cricket ({Gryllus campestric), remarkable for its loud notes.
Field day. (a) A day in the fields.
Field day. (b) (Mil.) A day when troops are taken into the field for instruction in evolutions. -- Farrow.
Field day. (c) A day of unusual exertion or display; a gala day.
Field driver, In New England, an officer charged with the driving of stray cattle to the pound.
Field+duck+(Zool.),+The+little+bustard+({Otis+tetrax">Field duck (Zool.), the little bustard ({Otis tetrax), found in Southern Europe.
Field glass. (Optics) (a) A binocular telescope of compact form; a lorgnette; a race glass.
Field glass. (Optics) (b) A small achromatic telescope, from 20 to 24 inches long, and having 3 to 6 draws.
Field glass. (Optics) (c) See Field lens.
Field lark. (Zool.) (a) The skylark.
Field lark. (Zool.) (b) The tree pipit.
Field lens (Optics), That one of the two lenses forming the eyepiece of an astronomical telescope or compound microscope which is nearer the object glass; -- called also field glass.
Field+madder+(Bot.),+A+plant+({Sherardia+arvensis">Field madder (Bot.), a plant ({Sherardia arvensis) used in dyeing.
Field marshal (Mil.), The highest military rank conferred in the British and other European armies.
Field officer (Mil.), An officer above the rank of captain and below that of general.
Field officer's court (U.S.Army), A court-martial consisting of one field officer empowered to try all cases, in time of war, subject to jurisdiction of garrison regimental courts. -- Farrow.
Field plover (Zool.), The black-bellied plover ({Charadrius squatarola); also sometimes applied to the Bartramian sandpiper ({Bartramia longicauda).
Field spaniel (Zool.), A small spaniel used in hunting small game.
Field sparrow. (Zool.) (a) A small American sparrow ({Spizella pusilla).
Field sparrow. (Zool.) (b) The hedge sparrow. [Eng.]
Field staff (Mil.), A staff formerly used by gunners to hold a lighted match for discharging a gun.
Field vole (Zool.), The European meadow mouse.
Field of ice, A large body of floating ice; a pack.
Field, or Field of view, In a telescope or microscope, the entire space within which objects are seen.
Field magnet. see under Magnet.
Magnetic field. See Magnetic.
To back the field, or To bet on the field. See under Back, v. t. 繼續活動（繼續作戰；堅守陣地）-- To keep the field.
To back the field (a) (Mil.) To continue a campaign.
To back the field (b) To maintain one's ground against all comers.
To lay against the field or To back against the field, To bet on (a horse, etc.) against all comers.
To take the field (Mil.), To enter upon a campaign.
Field (n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
Fielded (imp. & p. p.) of Field.
Fielding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Field.
Field (v. i.) 【棒】【板】擔任外野手 To take the field. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Field (v. i.) (Ball Playing) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
Field (v. t.) (Ball Playing)【棒】【板】接（球）；截（球）；守（球）；派……上場比賽 To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.
Field (n.) A piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed; "he planted a field of wheat"
Field (n.) A region where a battle is being (or has been) fought; "they made a tour of Civil War battlefields" [syn: battlefield, battleground, field of battle, field of honor, field].
Field (n.) 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 field".
Field (n.) A branch of knowledge; "in what discipline is his doctorate?"; "teachers should be well trained in their subject"; "anthropology is the study of human beings" [syn: discipline, subject, subject area, subject field, field, field of study, study, bailiwick].
Field (n.) The space around a radiating body within which its electromagnetic oscillations can exert force on another similar body not in contact with it [syn: field, field of force, force field].
Field (n.) A particular kind of commercial enterprise; "they are outstanding in their field" [syn: field, field of operation, line of business].
Field (n.) A particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit" [syn: sphere, domain, area, orbit, field, arena].
Field (n.) A piece of land prepared for playing a game; "the home crowd cheered when Princeton took the field" [syn: playing field, athletic field, playing area, field].
Field (n.) Extensive tract of level open land; "they emerged from the woods onto a vast open plain"; "he longed for the fields of his youth" [syn: plain, field, champaign].
Field (n.) (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 field".
Field (n.) A region in which active military operations are in progress; "the army was in the field awaiting action"; "he served in the Vietnam theater for three years" [syn: field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre, theatre of operations].
Field (n.) All of the horses in a particular horse race.
Field (n.) All the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event.
Field (n.) A geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found; "the diamond fields of South Africa".
Field (n.) (Computer science) A set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information.
Field (n.) The area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) [syn: field, field of view].
Field (n.) A place where planes take off and land [syn: airfield, landing field, flying field, field].
Field (v.) Catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket.
Field (v.) Play as a fielder.
Field (v.) Answer adequately or successfully; "The lawyer fielded all questions from the press".
Field (v.) Select (a team or individual player) for a game; "The Buckeyes fielded a young new quarterback for the Rose Bowl".
Field, () An area of a database record, or graphical user interface form, into which a particular
item of data is entered.
Example usage: "The telephone number field is not really a numerical field", "Why do we need a four-digit field for the year?".
A database column is the set of all instances of a given field from all records in a table. (1999-04-26)
Field, () (Heb. sadeh), A cultivated field, but unenclosed. It is applied to any cultivated ground or pasture (Gen. 29:2; 31:4; 34:7), or tillage (Gen. 37:7; 47:24). It is also applied to woodland (Ps. 132:6) or mountain top (Judg. 9:32, 36; 2 Sam. 1:21). It denotes sometimes a cultivated region as opposed to the wilderness (Gen. 33:19; 36:35). Unwalled villages or scattered houses are spoken of as "in the fields" (Deut. 28:3, 16; Lev. 25:31; Mark 6:36, 56). The "open field" is a place remote from a house (Gen. 4:8; Lev. 14:7, 53; 17:5). Cultivated land of any extent was called a field (Gen. 23:13, 17; 41:8; Lev. 27:16; Ruth 4:5; Neh. 12:29).
FIELD. A part of a farra separately enclosed; a close. 1 Chit. Pr. 160. The Digest defines a field to be a piece of land without a house; ager est locus, que sine villa est. Dig. 50, 16, 27.
Fielded (a.) Engaged in the field; encamped.
Fielden (a.) Consisting of fields.
Fielder (n.) A ball payer who stands out in the field to catch or stop balls.
Fieldfare (n.) A small thrush (Turdus pilaris) which breeds in northern Europe and winters in Great Britain. The head, nape, and lower part of the back are ash-colored; the upper part of the back and wing coverts, chestnut; -- called also fellfare.
Fielding (n.) (Ball Playing) The act of playing as a fielder.
Fielding (n.) (Baseball) Handling the ball while playing in the field.
Fielding (n.) English novelist and dramatist (1707-1754) [syn: Fielding, Henry Fielding].
Fielding, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
Population (2000): 448
Housing Units (2000): 142
Land area (2000): 0.441694 sq. miles (1.143982 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.441694 sq. miles (1.143982 sq. km)
FIPS code: 25290
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 41.811948 N, 112.117167 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 84311
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Fieldpiece (n.) A cannon mounted on wheels, for the use of a marching army; a piece of field artillery; -- called also field gun.
Fieldwork (n.) (Mil.) Any temporary fortification thrown up by an army in the field; -- commonly in the plural.
All works which do not come under the head of permanent fortification are called fieldworks. -- Wilhelm.
Fieldwork (n.) A temporary fortification built by troops in the field.
Fieldy (a.) Open, like a field. [Obs.] -- Wyclif.
Fiend (n.) [C] 魔鬼，惡魔；惡魔般的人，殘暴的人；【口】嗜好成癖者，……迷，……狂；（某方面的）能手 An implacable or malicious foe; one who is diabolically wicked or cruel; an infernal being; -- applied specifically to the devil or a demon.
Into this wild abyss the wary fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and looked a while. -- Milton.
O woman! woman! when to ill thy mind Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend. -- Pope.
Fiend (n.) A cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: monster, fiend, devil, demon, ogre].
Fiend (n.) An evil supernatural being [syn: devil, fiend, demon, daemon, daimon].
Fiend (n.) A person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause); "A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject" -- Winston Churchill [syn: fanatic, fiend].
Fiendful (a.) Full of fiendish spirit or arts. -- Marlowe. -- Fiend"ful*ly, adv.