A field is a piece of land far from urban centers that can be used for crops.
From the Latin campus ( "plain" , "battle space" ), the word field refers to a large piece of land that is far from a city or town or to land that can be tilled . The concept is also used in reference to a crop or crop .
For example: «On the weekend we will go to the countryside to relax a little and get away from the noise of the city» , «My grandfather lives in the countryside: he has cows, pigs and poultry» , «It is a very small province: In five minutes you cross the city and arrive at the countryside .
Playing field and as context
On the other hand, a field is a space that is intended for carrying out a physical activity or various sports : "The players were placed on the playing field to start the match" , "These footballers must learn to position themselves on the field» , «Last night's concert left the field in terrible conditions» .
The field is also the context, environment or scope that is typical of a professional sector or an activity: "Truman Capote stood out in the field of journalism," "It is a very successful company in the field of electronics."
The space where a sporting activity takes place is called a playing field.
The concept in different sciences
It should be noted that for the science of sociology , field is a concept developed by the Frenchman Pierre Bourdieu . The fields appear as systems that bring together social relations and that are defined by the fact of having a certain form of capital. The social structure, in this way, depends on the set of fields, with their links and influences on each other.
An electric field , meanwhile, is the place where electric charges are produced, that is, where certain material particles converge and eliminate energy: positive and negative charges . The presence of an electric field can be detected by the presence of material forces that manifest themselves in a defined way, giving rise to the flow of electrical energy . Although there is no way to really know their nature, the way in which electric fields are studied is in comparison with others of equal or opposite magnitude.
In computing, the concept of fields is used when creating databases and constitutes the fundamental input unit for data registration. There can be as many field names as necessary, among the most used are the text , numeric , date , summary , time and calculation fields.
semantic field
In linguistics there are semantic fields, and groups of words that are related to each other according to their meaning are called this. For example, in the semantic field of vertebrates, all those animals that have a skeleton with a spine and skull, and a central nervous system formed by a spinal cord and brain are grouped together: rabbits, chickens, lambs, turkeys, cows, horses, etc. .
Jost Trier is one of the first authors to define this concept, he did so in 1930 and stated that it referred to a set with a systematic structure , where certain lexemes were related based on their meaning by a highly significant degree of semantic kinship. Weisgerber later rewrote this theory , presenting the definition that is currently known as valid.
According to Trier's reasoning, all substances have a meaning that underlies the vocabulary , that is to say that beyond languages and the way in which each one understands reality by giving names to substances and matters , they have a meaning that It links them to others, with similar characteristics. For this, a structuring in semantic fields is necessary, to create similarities and associations between the different organisms and materials that make up existence, which share the same basis of meaning .
Authors after Trier developed two clear theories divergent from this: the theory of componential analysis , which can be grouped with the post-Saussurean structuralist ideas, whose main references are Greimas, Coseriu and Pottier and Coseriu; and that which is classified as generative grammar , whose major exponents have been Fodor, Weinreich and Katz.