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Formation vs Rockband - What's the difference?

formation | rockband |

As nouns the difference between formation and rockband

is that formation is formation while rockband is rock band.

formation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something possessing structure or form.
  • The act of assembling a group or structure.
  • (geology) A rock or face of a mountain.
  • (military) A grouping of military units or smaller formations under a command, such as a brigade, division, wing, etc.
  • (military) An arrangement of moving troops, ships, or aircraft, such as a wedge, line abreast, or echelon. Often "in formation".
  • The process of influencing or guiding a person to a deeper understanding of a particular vocation.

    • Related terms

    * form

    Synonyms

    * (military grouping of units) battle group, brigade group, task force, combat team * (military arrangement of forces) tactical formation, battle formation

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    rockband

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (geology) A rock formation that encircles a hill or mountain, separating other kinds of terrain that are above and below it.
  • * 1998 , Climbing , Issues 178-180, page 45:
    • His longtime friend and climbing partner, Chuck Maffei was spared from being pulled into the slide when their rope severed on a rockband .
  • *2001 , Alan Hobson, ?Jamie Clarke, The Power of Passion: Achieve Your Own Everests , page 125:
    • A 300-foot high rockband of near-vertical climbing stood between us and the summit.
  • * 2012 , Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis Country , fourth edition (ISBN 1927330092), page 31:
    • But stymied by a rockband , you are forced to traverse left instead, following cairns to gain the fire road between two large cairns.
  • (band that plays rock music).
  • *1974 , Paul Golis, A Day in the Life of Jay Peter Sweetly , page 12:
    • He tried calling again every three minutes until his accountant arrived, but the line was always busy — busy because room-mate John was using the phone to beat the bongo drums to the rhythm of the acid rockband on the stereo.
  • *1979 , New York Magazine , December 31, 1979, page 22:
    • Babes in Toyland - Holiday family show based on Victor Herbert's classic, following the adventures of a rockband through Toyland.
  • *2005 , Joel Rai, " Interpreter of Maladies", India Today International , Volume 4, page 159:
    • By which measure he should have a library's worth of themes in his mind since his cv also lists his peregrinations as a rockband leader, radio performer, university lecturer ("crushing failure") in Kathmandu and Bangkok, travel agent ("bankrupting defeat"), highway construction worker, tourist guide, columnist and a journalist.
  • *2006 , Carola Conle, Teacher's Stories, Teacher's Lives , page 204:
    • I started the class that day by having them listen to a powerful contemporary song by an Irish rockband .
  • *2012 , Peter Moormann, Music and Game: Perspectives on a Popular Alliance , page 172:
    • Since then the scene has quickly developed: New York stars such as Bit Shifter, Nullsleep or the chiptune rockband Anamanaguchi, and also 8 Bit Weapon from California and Sabrepulse from Great Britain, tour extensively and achieve up to three million replays on internet radio Last.fm.
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