fiend

n 1: a cruel wicked and inhuman person [syn: {monster}, {devil},

{demon}, {ogre}]

2: one of the evil spirits of traditional Jewish and Christian

belief [syn: {devil}, {demon}, {daemon}, {daimon}]

3: a person motivated by irrational enthusiasm (as for a cause)

[syn: {fanatic}]

field

An area of a {database} {record}, or

{graphical user interface} {form}, into which a particular

item of data is entered.

Example usage: "The telephone number field is not really a

numerical field", "Why do we need a four-digit field for the

year?".

A {database} {column} is the set of all instances of a given

field from all records in a {table}.

(1999-04-26)