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Mountain vs Rockband - What's the difference?

mountain | rockband |

As nouns the difference between mountain and rockband

is that mountain is a large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 3048 metres), though such masses may still be described as hills in comparison with larger mountains while rockband is rock band.

mountain

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A large mass of earth and rock, rising above the common level of the earth or adjacent land, usually given by geographers as above 1000 feet in height (or 304.8 metres), though such masses may still be described as hills in comparison with larger mountains.
    • Everest is the highest mountain in the world.
    We spent the weekend hiking in the mountains .
  • A large amount.
    • There's still a mountain of work to do.
  • (figuratively) A difficult task or challenge.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 1 , author=Phil Dawkes , title=Sunderland 2 - 2 West Brom , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=Five minutes into the game the Black Cats were facing a mountain , partly because of West Brom's newly-found ruthlessness in front of goal but also as a result of the home side's defensive generosity.}}

    Derived terms

    * Chinese mountain cat * faith will move mountains * folded mountain * have a mountain to climb * if the mountain won't come to Muhammad * make a mountain out of a molehill * mountain ash * mountain bearberry * mountain bike * mountain boarding * mountain building * mountain buzzard * mountain cat * mountain chain * mountain climbing * mountain cranberry * mountain dew * mountain fever * mountain goat * mountain gorilla * mountain hare * mountain laurel * mountain lion * mountain range * mountain reindeer * mountain sheep * mountain sickness * mountain top removal mining * mountain unit * mountain zebra * mountaineer * mountaineering * mountainless * mountainous * mountainside * mountaintop * snow on the mountain * Stoliczka's mountain vole * table mountain * White Cloud Mountain minnow

    Related terms

    * mount

    See also

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    External links

    * (wikipedia "mountain") *

    References

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    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words

    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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