Meaning of Clash | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Confront or confront.
2. A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects; a crash.
   countable, onomatopoeic, uncountable
3. A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
   countable, uncountable
4. Contention or dispute.
5. match; a game between two sides.
   countable, uncountable
6. An angry argument.
   countable, uncountable
7. Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
   countable, uncountable
8. A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
   countable, uncountable
9. An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
   countable, uncountable
10. Chatter; gossip; idle talk.
    Scotland, countable, uncountable
11. A heavy fall (of rain); heavy rain.
    UK, countable, dialectal, obsolete, possibly, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“I heard a clash from the kitchen, and rushed in to find the cat had knocked over some pots and pans.”

“Alone amid clashes of rain against the house.”

“In Anatolia tensions between state officials (ehl-i örf) and the peasants were strained to breaking point. At several places—particularly in the frontier provinces—there were fierce clashes between the janissaries stationed there and the governors. In Aleppo and Damascus incidents were common after 1589: the kuls threw rocks at the beylerbeyi’s house, killed people, broke into the divan several times and took the money prepared by the council for remittance to the centre.”

“But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales.”

“clash of beliefs”

“culture clash”

“She was wearing a horrible clash of red and orange.”

“clay soils ploughed in Autumn must often meet with heavy clashes of rain before frost: therefore , those salutary effects, expected to be derived from a frosty Winter, must often be frustrated, by the land being too much condensed by the rains before the frost comes on.”

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