Word Meanings - COLLISION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. 2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton.

Additional info about word: COLLISION

1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. 2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton. Sensitive to the most trifling collisions. W. Irving. Syn. -- Conflict; clashing; encounter; opposition.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COLLISION)

• Impact
• Contact
• application
• impression
• collision
• Percussion
• Collision
• shock
• encounter
• crash

Related words: (words related to COLLISION)

• ENCOUNTERER
  One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury.
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• COLLISION
  1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. 2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton.
• IMPACT
  To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.
• CONTACTION
  Act of touching.
• PERCUSSION
  The act of tapping or striking the surface of the body in order to learn the condition of the parts beneath by the sound emitted or the sensation imparted to the fingers. Percussion is said to be immediate if the blow is directly upon the body;
• SHOCK-HEADED
  Having a thick and bushy head of hair.
• CONTACT
  The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction. (more info) 1. A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
• SHOCK
  A lot consisting of sixty pieces; -- a term applied in some Baltic ports to loose goods. (more info) quantity, threescore, MHG. schoc, Sw. skok, and also G. hocke a heap 1. A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set
• IMPRESSIONABLE
  Liable or subject to impression; capable of being molded; susceptible; impressible. He was too impressionable; he had too much of the temperament of genius. Motley. A pretty face and an impressionable disposition. T. Hook.
• IMPRESSION
  The pressure of the type on the paper, or the result of such pressure, as regards its appearance; as, a heavy impression; a clear, or a poor, impression; also, a single copy as the result of printing, or the whole edition printed at a given time.
• IMPRESSIONISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.
• CRASH
  To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.
• APPLICATION
  1. The act of applying or laying on, in a literal sense; as, the application of emollients to a diseased limb. 2. The thing applied. He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. Johnson. 3. The act of applying as a means; the
• IMPRESSIONABILITY
  The quality of being impressionable.
• ENCOUNTER
  To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend
• IMPRESSIONLESS
  Having the quality of not being impressed or affected; not susceptible.
• IMPRESSIONIST
  One who adheres to the theory or method of impressionism, so called.
• SHOCKING
  Causing to shake or tremble, as by a blow; especially, causing to recoil with horror or disgust; extremely offensive or disgusting. The grossest and most shocking villainies. Secker. -- Shock"ing*ly, adv. -- Shock"ing*ness, n.
• IMPRESSIONISM
  The theory or method of suggesting an effect or impression without elaboration of the details; -- a disignation of a recent fashion in painting and etching.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• REPERCUSSION
  Rapid reiteration of the same sound. (more info) 1. The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation; as, the repercussion of sound. Ever echoing back in endless repercussion. Hare.
• NEOIMPRESSIONISM; POINTILLISM
  A theory or practice which is a further development, on more rigorously scientific lines, of the theory and practice of Impressionism, originated by George Seurat , and carried on by Paul Signac and others. Its method is marked by the laying