field day
- noun
- /fiːld deɪ/
:
jornada de maniobras
- The military field day featured live demonstrations of equipment and training exercises for new recruits.
Examples
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During the annual field day, troops demonstrated their tactics to local leaders and community members.
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The field day also served as a pre-meeting tour for the 2012 national conference of the Sun Grant Initiative being held in New Orleans.
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SCHRIEVER, La. -- New crops for new uses was the focus of a field day at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service Sugarcane Research Unit.
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The field day, co-sponsored by the LSU AgCenter, was part of an outreach program conducted by the AgCenter Louisiana Institute for Biofuels and Bioprocessing as part of a $17 million grant from the USDA Agriculture and Food Research Initiative.
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The soldiers practiced various drills during the field day to improve their skills and teamwork.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The components 'field' (a place for activity) and 'day' (a set-aside time) give a partial cue to an occasion or event, but the specific sense of 'exceptional enjoyment, success, or opportunity' is a metaphorical extension not directly derivable from the parts. Because the meaning is somewhat related to a literal event yet requires figurative generalization beyond the constituents, it is only partially predictable for a B1 learner.
Etymology
Field day comes from the army, where soldiers would spend a day out in the open field practising drills, maneuvers, and shows of skill, so the phrase began as a name for military exercise days.
