Field
Field noun - A small area of usually open land.
Settlement and field are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Settlement" instead a noun "Field".
Settlement
Settlement noun - An arrangement about action to be taken.
Field and settlement are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Field" instead a noun "Settlement".
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
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Unlike many video game examples, these rams aren't constructed normally, but built by your armies in the field once they besiege a settlement.
Source: Battering Ram - In the episode "Paradise," Sisko and O'Brien run across a settlement of the survivors of damaged ship on a planet where a dampening field makes technology useless.
Source: Utopia Justifies the Means -
This can be particularly frustrating if one is attacking a settlement because wall-taking and street fighting are much slower than field battles, mostly because units refuse to break and run.
Source: Timed Mission
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