What's the difference between field and floater?

Field


Definition:

  • (n.) Cleared land; land suitable for tillage or pasture; cultivated ground; the open country.
  • (n.) A piece of land of considerable size; esp., a piece inclosed for tillage or pasture.
  • (n.) A place where a battle is fought; also, the battle itself.
  • (n.) An open space; an extent; an expanse.
  • (n.) Any blank space or ground on which figures are drawn or projected.
  • (n.) The space covered by an optical instrument at one view.
  • (n.) 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).
  • (n.) An unresticted or favorable opportunity for action, operation, or achievement; province; room.
  • (n.) A collective term for all the competitors in any outdoor contest or trial, or for all except the favorites in the betting.
  • (n.) That part of the grounds reserved for the players which is outside of the diamond; -- called also outfield.
  • (v. i.) To take the field.
  • (v. i.) To stand out in the field, ready to catch, stop, or throw the ball.
  • (v. t.) To catch, stop, throw, etc. (the ball), as a fielder.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neuropsychological testing is a relatively new field in the area of clinical neuroscience.
  • (2) Open field behaviors and isolation-induced aggression were reduced by anxiolytics, at doses which may be within the sedative-hypnotic range.
  • (3) 8.43am BST A little more from that Field interview on Today.
  • (4) Enhanced sensitivity to ITDs should translate to better-defined azimuthal receptive fields, and therefore may be a step toward achieving an optimal representation of azimuth within the auditory pathway.
  • (5) Cellular radial expansion was apparently unaffected by exposure to electric fields.
  • (6) The playing fields on which all those players began their journeys have been underfunded for years and are now facing a renewed crisis because of cuts to local authority budgets.
  • (7) Data is available to support the early influences of enamel organ epithelium upon a responding mesenchyme in the determination of dental morphogenetic fields (Dryburg, 1967; Miller, 1969).
  • (8) In a series of compounds with H2-antihistaminic activity, a conformational analysis was performed based on force field calculations.
  • (9) With fields and fells already saturated after more than four times the average monthly rainfall falling within the first three weeks of December, there was nowhere left to absorb the rainfall which has cascaded from fields into streams and rivers.
  • (10) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
  • (11) Consequently, it is important to predict accurately dose for such fields to ensure adequate coverage of the target region and sparing of healthy tissues.
  • (12) Their receptive fields comprise a temporally and spatially linear mechanism (center plus antagonistic surround) that responds to relatively low spatial frequency stimuli, and a temporally nonlinear mechanism, coextensive with the linear mechanism, that--though broad in extent--responds best to high spatial-frequency stimuli.
  • (13) No biologic investigation of the hemostatic impairment could be performed under the emergency conditions of this field study.
  • (14) Hyperosmolar buffer slightly increased the sensitivity and maximal response to methacholine as well as the cholinergic twitch to electric field stimulation.
  • (15) At sufficiently high field intensities, the reaction may approach a value equal to that of the free enzyme system.
  • (16) Most of the infection was attributed to T. parva parva by application of field ticks to susceptible cattle.
  • (17) Components of locomotor activity were measured in an open field.
  • (18) The field of labeling formed a continuous band from rostro-laterally to caudo-medially.
  • (19) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
  • (20) These are particularly common in the field of sport.

Floater


Definition:

  • (n.) One who floats or swims.
  • (n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thus while the majority of patients with flashes and floaters do merit an urgent ophthalmological opinion, those who complain of a single, isolated floater can safely be reviewed as routine outpatients.
  • (2) Although there were no specific symptoms which could be correlated to an increased incidence of retinal breaks, those patients who complained of isolated uniocular floaters had an insignificant incidence of breakage, when compared to asymptomatic fellow eyes.
  • (3) A substantial proportion of the mycobacterial population on an inert surface floated off during its exposure to the glutaraldehyde solution but the 'floaters' were killed at an equivalent rate to the attached bacilli.
  • (4) Forty-nine patients with bilateral pigmentary dispersion syndrome (abnormal accumulation of pigment in the anterior chamber, principally from the posterior layers of the iris), including 31 patients with pigmentary glaucoma, underwent 10% phenylephrine testing in one eye for evaluation of liberation of pigment floaters into the anterior chamber and the influence of phenylephrine on the intraocular pressure.
  • (5) Prior to drug application, aqueous cells were observed in none of the cases, while after mydriasis, apparent aqueous floaters appeared in 9.2% of the cases, all of whom were over 40 years of age.
  • (6) This is underscored by our current inability to explain satisfactorily several patterns including the relative significance of floating, geographic biases in the incidence of cooperative breeding, sexual asymmetries in delayed dispersal, the relationship between delayed dispersal leading to helping behavior and cooperative polygamy, and the rarity of the co-occurrence of helpers and floaters within the same population.
  • (7) Of 100 patients with a prepapillary annular opacity in age-related posterior vitreous detachment with collapse, 44 had floater symptoms corresponding to their opacity.
  • (8) 2.02am BST Tigers 1 - Red Sox 0, top of 3rd Don Kelly hits a floater into left field that looks like it will find a piece of turf but Drew tracks it down for the first out.
  • (9) After Lynch wiggles for three yards, Seattle face a 3rd & 6...in the shotgun, Wilson takes off before sending a floater downfield that barley escapes the fingers of Eric Reid - instead, it falls safely into the hands of Doug Baldwin for 22 yards.
  • (10) Parker makes a floater that ends the scoring for a crazy last minute.
  • (11) Yet, much like floaters in your eye, try to focus on these toxins and they scamper from view.
  • (12) The patients studied comprised four cases with rhegmatogenous retinal detachments and one case with the sudden onset of vitreous floaters with posterior vitreous detachment (PVD).
  • (13) All patients had either a vitreous hemorrhage, or photopsia and floaters.
  • (14) Vitreous flare was present in 44% and increase of floaters in 55% of the eyes.
  • (15) The extreme sensitivity of the instruments enables real-time detection of refractive effects from tear films on the cornea and real-time tracking of floaters.
  • (16) In 7 eyes a special form of rosettes was found: a rosette scattered in the vitreous body like a floater.
  • (17) However, equal numbers of whole and PP floaters were deficient in their capacity to present antigen compared with similar populations from spleen.
  • (18) The project has three phases: a one-day environmental photojournalism workshop; a photography exhibition in schools, malls and government offices and education about how to recycle plastic bottles, such as using them for seaweed floaters.
  • (19) 1.46am BST Indiana Pacers 14-10 Miami Heat - 5:50 remaining, 1st Quarter The Pacers commit yet another turnover as the officials say the ball has gone off of Lance Stephenson, and Mario Chalmers converts a floater on the other end.
  • (20) A proportion of the cells remain in the medium as floaters.