What's the difference between field and infield?

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.

Infield


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To inclose, as a field.
  • (n.) Arable and manured land kept continually under crop; -- distinguished from outfield.
  • (n.) The diamond; -- opposed to outfield. See Diamond, n., 5.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Roger Kirkby: An infield single for Papi, lol Wait until he steals a base in this series.
  • (2) 3.58am BST Tigers 5 - Red Sox 1, top of 8th Martinez is held in check by Doubront, who gets him to pop out on the right side of the infield - Carp makes the catch.
  • (3) 1.54am GMT Giants 1 - Tigers 2, Top 6th Infield hit from Marco Scutaro to start things off.
  • (4) Three patients died manifesting only local (infield) recurrence; five died manifesting only distant recurrence; and five developed local and distant recurrence.
  • (5) The infield failure rate increased as a function of stage from 9% in Stage I to 23% in Stage II and 48% in Stage III.
  • (6) Two down for Pedro Alvarez, who is looking for that elusive ball out of the infield.
  • (7) The Belgian held off Ciaran Clark to wriggle infield and spit a shot which flew through Brad Guzan’s legs at the near post.
  • (8) Then Frazier launches a rope that bounces off the wall in center field, McCutchen casually grabs it and throws back into the infield - the Reds third baseman has a one out double.
  • (9) The centre-half had collected a throw-in on 15 minutes and attempted a blind pass infield, only to dribble the ball straight to a rampaging Costa.
  • (10) With the infield in, Jay hit a grounder to diving second baseman Dustin Pedroia.
  • (11) The infield relapse-free survival at 24 months was 49% (95% confidence interval: 32-66%).
  • (12) Events went from bad to ridiculous for the Redbirds in the second inning, when Stephen Drew popped the ball up into the infield and catcher Yadier Molina and pitcher Adam Wainwright both moved towards the ball and then contrived to call each other off and watched the ball drop harmlessly between them.
  • (13) He actually gets 0-2 on Torii Hunter before wasting a pitch to make it 1-2 and he hits an infield single to Xander Bogaerts.
  • (14) 72 min: Downing, ostensibly on the right now, keeps wandering infield.
  • (15) In the 86th minute Gardner swept the ball infield and it fell to McClean 20 yards out.
  • (16) The survival and rate of chest infield relapse was examined in 48 patients with limited disease small cell lung cancer (LSCLC) who had achieved complete (CR) or partial response (PR) following three courses of chemotherapy.
  • (17) 12.19am GMT Giants 0 - Tigers 0, Top 1st Marco Scutaro pops up, and outfielder Austin Jackson has to go all the way to the edge of the infield to make the catch.
  • (18) Pedroia pops to right, and then Ortiz grounds one into the shallow outfield where Carpenter, playing in the shift, makes the grab and fires not in time - an infield base hit for Papi!
  • (19) They win a throw in and when it comes infield after a couple of "phases" Paulinho tries to chip Casillas who has to push it out from behind the line.
  • (20) The midfielder’s nod down went infield to the Dutchman and his lay-off was put ruthlessly beyond McGregor by Rooney.