Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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field | Yes | No | Yes | No |
plain | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
field (noun) | plain (noun) |
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a particular kind of commercial enterprise | a basic knitting stitch made by putting the needle through the front of the stitch from the lefthand side |
a place where planes take off and land | extensive tract of level open land |
a branch of knowledge | |
the area that is visible (as through an optical instrument) | |
(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 | |
all of the horses in a particular horse race | |
all the competitors in a particular contest or sporting event | |
(computer science) a set of one or more adjacent characters comprising a unit of information | |
a piece of land cleared of trees and usually enclosed | |
somewhere (away from a studio or office or library or laboratory) where practical work is done or data is collected | |
a piece of land prepared for playing a game | |
a region in which active military operations are in progress | |
a region where a battle is being (or has been) fought | |
a geographic region (land or sea) under which something valuable is found | |
extensive tract of level open land | |
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 environment or walk of life |
field (adjective) | plain (adjective) |
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not elaborate or elaborated; simple | |
lacking patterns especially in color | |
free from any effort to soften to disguise | |
clearly revealed to the mind or the senses or judgment | |
not mixed with extraneous elements | |
lacking embellishment or ornamentation | |
lacking in physical beauty or proportion |
field (verb) | plain (verb) |
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select (a team or individual player) for a game | express complaints, discontent, displeasure, or unhappiness |
answer adequately or successfully | |
play as a fielder | |
catch or pick up (balls) in baseball or cricket |
field (adverb) | plain (adverb) |
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unmistakably (`plain' is often used informally for `plainly') |