English > formation: 7 senses > noun 3, actMeaning | The act of forming or establishing something. |
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Synonyms | constitution, establishment, organization, organisation |
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Narrower | collectivization, collectivisation | The organization of a nation or economy on the basis of collectivism |
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colonization, colonisation, settlement | The act of colonizing |
communization, communisation | The organization of a nation of the basis of communism / communism |
federation | The act of constituting a political unity out of a number of separate states or colonies or provinces so that each member retains the management of its internal affairs |
unionization, unionisation | Act of forming labor unions |
Broader | beginning, start, commencement | The act of starting something |
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Spanish | constitución, establecimiento, formación, fundación |
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Catalan | constitució, establiment, formació, fundació |
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Verbs | form | make something, usually for a specific function |
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form | create (as an entity) |
English > formation: 7 senses > noun 4, objectMeaning | (geology) the geological features of the earth. |
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Synonym | geological formation |
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Category | geology | A science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks / rocks |
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Instances | Pillars of Hercules | The two promontories at the eastern end of the Strait of Gibraltar |
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Narrower | aquifer | underground bed or layer yielding ground water for wells and springs etc |
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beach | An area of sand sloping down to the water of a sea or lake |
cave | A geological formation consisting of an underground enclosure with access from the surface of the ground or from the sea |
cliff, drop, drop-off | A steep high face of rock |
delta | A low triangular area of alluvial deposits where a river divides before entering a larger / larger body of water |
diapir | A domed rock formation where a core of rock / rock has moved upward and pierced through the more brittle overlying strata |
folium | A thin layer or stratum of (especially metamorphic) rock |
foreshore | The part of the seashore between the highwater mark and the low-water mark |
ice mass | A large mass of ice |
lakefront | Land bordering a lake |
massif | A block of the earth's crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range |
monocline | A geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction |
mouth | The point where a stream issues into a larger / larger body of water |
natural depression, depression | A sunken or depressed geological formation |
natural elevation, elevation | A raised or elevated geological formation |
oceanfront | Land bordering an ocean |
range, mountain range, range of mountains, chain, mountain chain, chain of mountains | A series of hills or mountains |
relict | geological feature that is a remnant of a pre-existing formation after other parts have disappeared |
ridge, ridgeline | A long narrow range of hills |
ridge | A long narrow natural elevation on the floor of the ocean |
shore | The land along the edge of a body of water |
slope, incline, side | An elevated geological formation |
spring, fountain, outflow, outpouring, natural spring | A natural flow of ground water |
talus, scree | A sloping mass of loose rocks / rocks at the base of a cliff |
vein, mineral vein | A layer of ore between layers of rock |
volcanic crater, crater | A bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano |
wall | A vertical (or almost vertical) smooth rock face (as of a cave or mountain) |
water table, water level, groundwater level | underground surface below which the ground is wholly saturated with water |
Broader | object, physical object | A tangible and visible entity |
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Spanish | accidente geográfico, formación geológica, formación |
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Catalan | formació geològica |
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