When two things clash, they run violently into each other, often with an accompanying loud noise. The percussionist in an orchestra has the enviable job of making two cymbals clash together.
To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
Noun
a minor short-term fight
Noun
a loud resonant repeating noise; "he could hear the clang of distant bells"
Noun
a state of conflict between persons
Noun
a state of conflict between colors; "her dress was a disturbing clash of colors"
Verb
disagree violently; "We clashed over the new farm policies"
Verb
crash together with violent impact; "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed"
Verb
be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash"
v. i.
To make a noise by striking against something; to dash
noisily together.
v. i.
To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to
come onto collision; to interfere.
v. t.
To strike noisily against or together.
n.
A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of
bodies; a collision.
n.
Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or
contending interests, views, purposes, etc.
Clash
However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony.
Clash
Clash
The roll of cannon and clash of arms.2.
Clashes between popes and kings.
To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
To strike noisily against or together.
A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.
Usage Examples
When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Cricket makes no sense to me. I find it beautiful to watch and I like that they break for tea. That is very cool, but I don't understand. My friends from The Clash tried to explain it years and years ago, but I didn't understand what they were talking about.
America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.
Freedom rings where opinions clash.
The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.
And in this respect, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been a tragedy, a clash between one very powerful, very convincing, very painful claim over this land and another no less powerful, no less convincing claim.
There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
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