tight formation

collocation in English

meaningsoftightandformation

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tight
adjective
adverb
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/taɪt/us
/taɪt/
(held or kept together) firmly ...
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noun
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/fɔːˈmeɪ.ʃən/us
/fɔːrˈmeɪ.ʃən/
the way something is naturally made or the way it has ...
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(Definition oftightandformationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Women usually dance intightformation, poised on the ends of their geta sandals.
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Her outfit was a dark, buttonedup uniform, and she moved intightformationwith her dancers.
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Flocks of these tanagers stay intightformation, often foraging from tree to tree together.
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For half a century,tightformationdrill was an everyday occurrence on the parade grounds.
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Not only did the team perform standard loops and rolls in verytightformation, they also introduced their own trademark maneuvers.
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These tactics required fighting intightformationwith good military discipline and control.
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As it ascended over the treetops, the witnesses claimed that a group of helicopters approached the object and surrounded it intightformation.
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The largest number of sixteen (1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 2, 1) is known as atightformation.
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It was the third nuclear explosion experiment intended to stimulate the flow of natural gas fromtightformationgas fields.
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It flies at low altitude with slow wingbeats and trailing feet, in loose flocks rather thantightformation.
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Horsemen rode knee-by-knee in atightformation.
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Because marram grass grows in a verytightformationonly leaving small gaps between tuffs, this makes it difficult for the katipo to construct a suitable web for capturing prey.
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Light infantry operated in extended order (also known as skirmish formation) as opposed to the close orders (tight formations) used by line infantry.
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These were heavily used, flying in tight formations and using co-ordinated defensive fire to defend against fighter attack, while returning individually at low levels.
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Heavy infantry were dedicated primarily to fighting in tight formations that were the core of large battles.
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If the enemy infantry was equipped with polearms and fought in tight formations it was not possible to charge without heavy losses.
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These schools swim in such tight formations, they resemble a single organism.
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He advised that pairs of aircraft approaching a fight should increase the distance between them instead of holding tight formations, a precursor to the combat spread maneuver.
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