# Match all terms spread across specified fields

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/match-all-terms-spread-across-specified-fields/1408>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 27, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/match-all-terms-spread-across-specified-fields/1408 "2015-05-27T16:13:26Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![brian](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/brian/32/54874_2.png) [@brian](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/brian)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2015, 4:13pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/match-all-terms-spread-across-specified-fields/1408/1 "2015-05-27T16:13:26Z")

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Is there a query to match a whole phrase across multiple specified fields?  
So a phrase like "the brown fox" would match a row with fields like:  
field1: 'the'  
field2: 'brown'  
feild3: 'fox'  
field4: 'random'

field4 would not be included in the query, and the query "the brown fox ran" would not match.

Thanks for any help.

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**Author:** ![Jason\_Wee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7ea924/32.png) [@Jason\_Wee](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Jason_Wee)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:22pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/match-all-terms-spread-across-specified-fields/1408/2 "2015-05-29T18:22:04Z")

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query string would probably work for your use case [https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#\_multi\_field\_2](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/current/query-dsl-query-string-query.html#_multi_field_2)

jason

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:10am UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/match-all-terms-spread-across-specified-fields/1408/3 "2017-07-06T00:10:45Z")

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