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noun

Clash n.

A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision. "The roll of cannon and clash of arms."

Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc. "Clashes between popes and kings."

verb

Clash v. t. To strike noisily against or together.

Clash v. i. (past & past part. clashed; pres. part. clashing)

To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. "However some of his interests might clash with those of the chief adjacent colony."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Clash" Quotes from Famous Books

... participation in the constant trend of events. There is no doubt that most of the misunderstandings of life are due to partial intelligence, because our experiences have been so unlike that we cannot comprehend each other. The old difficulties incident to the clash of two codes of morals must drop away, as the experiences of various members of the family become larger ...

— Democracy and Social Ethics • Jane Addams

... recommendations may have produced among the civil rights leaders, the department found itself surprisingly free from outside pressure. It was able to set the pace of its own reform and to avoid meanwhile a clash with either (p. 558) reformers or segregationists over major civil ...

— Integration of the Armed Forces, 1940-1965 • Morris J. MacGregor Jr.

... to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry peace, peace—but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms. Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty ...

— American Eloquence, Volume I. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various

... from the scientific attitude, and has as good a right to exist as it has. The contrast of heaven and earth is for the prophet the contrast of strength with weakness, of joyful harmony with moral disorder, of punctual, entire obedience with rebellion and the clash of multitudes ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Isaiah and Jeremiah • Alexander Maclaren

... certain tolerance of one's characters even though they be, in the conventional sense, knaves, products, as the case might be, of conditions or circumstance, which after all is the thing to be criticised and not the man. But pity and tolerance are rare in satire, even in clash with it, producing in the result a deep sense of tragic humour. It is this that makes of Dead Souls a unique work, peculiarly Gogolian, peculiarly Russian, and distinct from its author's ...

— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

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