Exercise and Formation

Exercise

Exercise noun - Energetic movement of the body for the sake of physical fitness.

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Formation and exercise are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Formation" instead a noun "Exercise".

Nearby Words: exercised, exercising, exerciser, exercizing, exercized

Formation noun - The way in which something is sized, arranged, or organized.

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Exercise and formation are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Exercise" instead a noun "Formation".

Nearby Words: form, formed, forming, format, formative

good	good exercise	good formation
special	special exercise	special formation
common	common exercise	common formation
proper	proper exercise	proper formation
Other adjectives: actual, entire, massive, military, basic, last, giant.

In Top Gun, during one exercise, Maverick inadvertently flies into Iceman's jet wash after Iceman breaks formation, causing Maverick's F-14 to suffer a flameout and enter a flat spin.

Source: Training Accident
The French grammar book La Grammaire à l'ouvre contains, as an exercise, a series of questions to be translated into French to practice question formation.

Source: Textbook Humor

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