What's the difference between headband and headland?

Headband


Definition:

  • (n.) A fillet; a band for the head.
  • (n.) The band at each end of the back of a book.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The supporters – many of them wearing Hamas green headbands and carrying Hamas flags – packed the open-air venue in rain and strong winds to celebrate the Islamist organisation's 25th anniversary and what it regards as a victory in last month's eight-day war with Israel.
  • (2) Hamas members with black face masks and green headbands handed him over earlier today to Egyptian mediators before he was taken by helicopter to Tel Nof airbase in central Israel and re-united with his family.
  • (3) In order to study how the efficiency of the halo vest is affected by different lengths of the vest, an experimental headband was devised that allowed the head of a normal person to be held securely in the halo attachment.
  • (4) Yvonne Robertson, who had travelled from Glasgow with her district lodge, spoke of "an absolutely amazing day" as her red, white and blue glitter headband sparkled in the sunshine.
  • (5) A comparison between counting rates under the derived time-activity curves showed significantly lower values on headband application (p less than 0.01).
  • (6) Static scintigrams consisting of the first 300,000 counts recorded after bolus release with and without headband application show a clear delineation of the headband position with prevention of "halo" appearance about the cranial cavity.
  • (7) They talked of sleeves that would slide over paralysed limbs, headbands that would do the work of a brain chip, smartphones that would do what the computer did now.
  • (8) This research investigated the influence of the user's work-related movement and variations in headband compression force and earcup cushion material (liquid- or foam-filled) on the frequency-specific noise attenuation achieved with earmuffs.
  • (9) She has gloss-coated lips, and her yellow headband, holding back long hair, glows in the lamplight along Juscelino Kubitschek Avenue, which connects the city to the Castelão arena, one of the venues for the 2014 World Cup .
  • (10) An implantable magnet is now available for patients who have received the standard Nucleus 22-channel cochlear implant and who are not able to wear the headband satisfactorily.
  • (11) Theoretical aspects of headband force as well as the implications of attenuation measurements for test room recommendations are discussed.
  • (12) Six men wearing jackets, despite the wet heat, and red headbands.
  • (13) Probably the happening of most moment during that 1973 midsummer fortnight was the raucous overture of something rare and special when every day some hundred or so shrieking schoolgirls began following around the concourse and demanding autographs from a slim, blond, bemused Swede with a headband and an ice-blue faraway gaze, just 17 but, perforce, seeded No6.
  • (14) RunPhones integrate a set of headphones into a comfy headband that won’t move or come lose when you’re really going for it.
  • (15) Clothing that will get you noticed by street photographers is the name of the game, so expect an eclectic high-low mix of neon sweaters from Scott and couture headbands from Maison Michele .
  • (16) Dressed in a pink headband and a black jacket, she clutched a white plastic bag containing cash the family had collected to bury her brother, who died in a local hospital on Sunday.
  • (17) As a simple aid for exact localization of such processes a "rod headband" is presented, which consists of a leather strap with exchangeable plastic rods and can be put on the patient's forehead for a CT examination.
  • (18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Young women wear headbands with Joaquín Guzmán’s name, during a march to call for his freedom in his home state in the north-west of Mexico.
  • (19) This year we'll be selling socks, headbands, handbags and hats with bells on."
  • (20) Right out of the gate she was getting slammed for the pantsuits, the hair, the headbands, her appearance, her life choices, and everything she said was so heavily scrutinized.

Headland


Definition:

  • (n.) A cape; a promontory; a point of land projecting into the sea or other expanse of water.
  • (n.) A ridge or strip of unplowed at the ends of furrows, or near a fence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So it is only a fool, like me, who would walk nonchalantly around the headland during a high wind.
  • (2) North of the main jetty and beach, the coast curves out towards a rocky headland, and the further you go, the more likely you are to have it to yourself.
  • (3) Paddle on the Riviera Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Alamy A half-hour walk from the tiny railway station at Cap d’Ail in the Alpes-Maritimes, a coastal footpath runs underneath a line of art nouveau and art deco villas and round a headland before Mala Plage comes into view.
  • (4) Paddling along the densely wooded coastline, the view ahead was suddenly broken by asymmetrical shapes rising up from a grassy headland.
  • (5) Off the windswept headland where the Red Sea’s Gulf of Aqaba meets the Gulf of Suez, a dozen divers trail bubbles during their descent towards the famous Shark Reef, one of the world’s most popular diving sites.
  • (6) We don’t really have a mandate for the conservation of non-native species.” In his blog, Harper argued that managed shoots could “provide beneficial habitat management for wildlife”, including woodland sky-lighting, planting cover crops and creating conservation headlands.
  • (7) The row of trees and bushes sticking out of the shallow water continued more or less unbroken until it ended at a pointed headland 100m farther down.
  • (8) The nearby headland is spectacular, and there's lots to enjoy in this stretch of the Pembrokeshire Coast national park.
  • (9) First, helpful founder Tor McIntosh suggested Exmoor’s National Trust-owned Foreland Bothy , half a mile from Foreland point, a rocky headland a few miles from Lynmouth.
  • (10) Minute by minute, you can see rock being carved by the elements, out on that headland that divides the town in two.
  • (11) The gently undulating headlands are covered in a blanket of long grass, making picnicking and sunbathing agreeable throughout the day.
  • (12) It stretches from the headland called Pointe du Meinga, to the Ile Besnard in the west.
  • (13) With what little strength I had left, I took two unsteady steps up on to the headland.
  • (14) Backed by low headlands and no less than three waterfalls, it is easy to linger at Porthsychan for as long as the sun allows.
  • (15) Only palm trees stand between the hotel and the beach, with a headland right beside it and blazing sunsets across the bay.
  • (16) And there are the new agri-environment schemes that encourage landowners to put in new hedges and to leave unploughed "headlands" around the arable fields.
  • (17) The long sweep of beach ends at a headland where beautiful reef pools are exposed by the receding tide, revealing a huge naturally sheltered pool, offering wonderful snorkelling and tropical fish.
  • (18) His political candidates – such as Wang – can be his employees, and Wang will now employ on his senatorial staff the two people who ran with him on the WA Senate ticket: Chamonix Terblanche and Des Headland.
  • (19) Credit: Jonas Dahlberg Studio The headland of the Sørbråten memorial will be engraved with names of all the victims; visitors will be able to read them but not reach to touch them.
  • (20) These 12 rustic yet thoughtfully designed adobe cabanas are on a palmy beach cradled by rocky headlands two miles east of Puerto Angel and about 50 miles from Puerto Escondido.