craft vs field

craft

noun
  • A branch of skilled work or trade, especially one requiring manual dexterity or artistic skill, but sometimes applied equally to any business, calling or profession; the skilled practice of a practical occupation . 

  • A trade or profession as embodied in its practitioners collectively; the members of a trade or handicraft as a body; an association of these; a trade's union, guild, or ‘company’ . 

  • Ability, skilfulness, especially skill in making plans and carrying them into execution; dexterity in managing affairs, adroitness, practical cunning; ingenuity in constructing, dexterity . 

  • A woman. 

  • Implements used in catching fish, such as net, line, or hook. Modern use primarily in whaling, as in harpoons, hand-lances, etc. . 

  • Cunning, art, skill, or dexterity applied to bad purposes; artifice; guile; subtlety; shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception . 

  • Skill, skilfulness, art, especially the skill needed for a particular profession . 

  • Boats, especially of smaller size than ships. Historically primarily applied to vessels engaged in loading or unloading of other vessels, as lighters, hoys, and barges. 

  • Those vessels attendant on a fleet, such as cutters, schooners, and gun-boats, generally commanded by lieutenants. 

verb
  • To make by hand and with much skill. 

  • To construct, develop something (like a skilled craftsman). 

  • To combine multiple items to form a new item, such as armour or medicine. 

field

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

  • The background of the shield. 

  • An area of memory or storage reserved for a particular value, subject to virtual access controls. 

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

  • The extent of a given perception. 

  • A region containing a particular mineral. 

  • A domain of study, knowledge or practice. 

  • The part of a coin left unoccupied by the main device. 

  • A section of a form which is supposed to be filled with data. 

  • 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 commutative ring satisfying the field axioms. 

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

  • A place where a battle is fought; a battlefield. 

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

  • The background of the flag. 

  • 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. 

  • A component of a database in which a single unit of information is stored. 

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

  • An unrestricted or favourable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement. 

  • The outfield. 

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

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

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

verb
  • To answer; to address. 

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

  • To execute research (in the field). 

  • To place (a team, its players, etc.) in a game. 

  • To deploy in the field. 

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

  • To defeat. 

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

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