Column vs Field: have I been using these terms incorrectly?

I feel kind of embarrassed here, I've always used the terms "column" and "field" completely interchangeably, which recently caused some confusion in a technical discussion. I was told, though, that this wasn't correct, that it should be (translating each term into spreadsheet terminology, ignoring data types and all the other stuff that make databases useful): * Database Column: like a spreadsheet column * Database Record: like a spreadsheet row * Database Field: like a spreadsheet "cell" (a specific column of a specific row) Is this right? I could have sworn that column and field are used more interchangeably than that. I certainly have been. So we *don't* add *fields* to a table, we add *columns* to a table, and fields are only relevant when talking about data within a record? Other thoughts on column vs field? Edit: to clarify, the current context is MS SQL Server. My background before SQL server was MS Access, which might influence my use of these terms.