What's the difference between field and sphere?

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.

Sphere


Definition:

  • (n.) Rank; order of society; social positions.
  • (n.) A body or space contained under a single surface, which in every part is equally distant from a point within called its center.
  • (n.) Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth.
  • (n.) The apparent surface of the heavens, which is assumed to be spherical and everywhere equally distant, in which the heavenly bodies appear to have their places, and on which the various astronomical circles, as of right ascension and declination, the equator, ecliptic, etc., are conceived to be drawn; an ideal geometrical sphere, with the astronomical and geographical circles in their proper positions on it.
  • (n.) In ancient astronomy, one of the concentric and eccentric revolving spherical transparent shells in which the stars, sun, planets, and moon were supposed to be set, and by which they were carried, in such a manner as to produce their apparent motions.
  • (n.) The extension of a general conception, or the totality of the individuals or species to which it may be applied.
  • (n.) Circuit or range of action, knowledge, or influence; compass; province; employment; place of existence.
  • (n.) An orbit, as of a star; a socket.
  • (v. t.) To place in a sphere, or among the spheres; to insphere.
  • (v. t.) To form into roundness; to make spherical, or spheral; to perfect.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Mike Ashley told Lee Charnley that maybe he could talk with me last week but I said: ‘Listen, we cannot say too much so I think it’s better if we wait.’ The message Mike Ashley is sending is quite positive, but it was better to talk after we play Tottenham.” Benítez will ask Ashley for written assurances over his transfer budget, control of transfers and other spheres of club autonomy, but can also reassure the owner that the prospect of managing in the second tier holds few fears for him.
  • (2) Quantitative measurements of image contrast were carried out for B-mode images of anechoic spheres (cysts) embedded in a random scattering medium.
  • (3) The relation between genetic counseling and the procreation sphere among the studied families is presented.
  • (4) Despite Facebook's size and reach, and its much-vaunted role in the short-lived Arab spring , there are reasons for thinking that Twitter may be the more important service for the future of the public sphere – that is, the space in which democracies conduct public discussion.
  • (5) I care far more that women are absolutely essential to political life, influential at every level, and are leading dynamic conversations in the public sphere around social and cultural change.
  • (6) The algorithm is an improvement over the sphere model in that it considers two distinct surfaces: an ellipsoid, to model the region of the skull on which the sensors are placed, and a sphere as the medium in which the current dipole model is considered.
  • (7) The yolk spheres, which were free of precipitates, gave the characteristic signal of the nitrogen K-edge.
  • (8) In family therapy, the analysis of secret implies not only to define the network of the concerned persons, but also the definition of the bonds between the secret and loyalties, the distribution of power, the alliances and the definitions of the private sphere (proper to each family) and of the protective function of the secret.
  • (9) The sphering agent lysolecithin is less effective in reducing red cell deformability, when the external calcium-concentration is kept low.
  • (10) The magnitude of changes in both energy interaction and intensity were used to explore the degree of outer and inner sphere coordination, incidence of covalency and the extent of metal 4f-orbital involvement in chemical bonding.
  • (11) Ultrastructurally, hemolytic concentrations of tributyltin can be visualized in the electron microscope by osmium staining during fixation as electron-dense spheres penetrating the lipid bilayer of the erythrocyte plasma membrane.
  • (12) In the present paper the images produced by spheres of varying diameter (d = 4,6,8,10 mm) embedded in a homogeneous substance of varying densities (H' = 3,48,93,137 Hounsfield units) as produced by computer tomography were studied.
  • (13) The typical elements of risk (tobacco, age, socio-professional sphere) reappear in this study.
  • (14) Our results showed that a lower percentage of normal subjects and a lower percentage of constipated patients were able to pass a 1.8 cm incompressible sphere compared with a 50 ml deformable balloon, although constipated patients found it more difficult than normal subjects to expel both types of simulated stool.
  • (15) A transient 5-coordinate intermediate might play a role in the mechanism of action of carbonic anhydrase by facilitating ligand exchange reactions within the inner coordination sphere of the Zn(II) ion at the active center.
  • (16) The expression of WAP appears to be dependent upon the formation of the alveoli-like spheres: prevention of sphere formation by fixation or drying of the matrix abolishes the expression of WAP.
  • (17) The SAR patterns in birds, however, varied markedly from those obtained from spheres of comparable mass.
  • (18) The depth of FAD incorporation into the enzyme molecule as calculated according to the outer sphere electron transfer theory is 6.1 A.
  • (19) For the hard-sphere model used in these calculations, it was found that current helix-coil transition theory does not predict the correct perturbed dimensions.
  • (20) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.