collision

«collision» in Mova's school dictionary: when two or more things crash into each other while… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a collision, collisions); from the verb collide (collide, collides, collided, colliding)

meaning for a pupil

1) A collision is when two or more things crash into each other while moving, like cars, people or balls. tree →

2) A collision is a strong disagreement between ideas or people: «a collision of interests». tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons collisions are about forces and movement; in road safety lessons they are crashes to avoid. Phrases: «a head-on collision», «in collision with», «a collision course».

examples

• There was a collision between two cars at the corner. tree →
• The bus was in a collision with a lorry. tree →
• Look both ways to avoid a collision. tree →
• In science, we rolled two balls to watch a collision. tree →
• The two players had a collision and both fell. tree →
• Their plans are on a collision course. tree →
• Such a division of ideas seemed to promise civil wars and all kinds of troubles to the State, and even in the Palace the two parties frequently came into collision. tree →

note

Countable. Spelling: col-li-sion (double l, -sion). «Head-on» means front to front. Safety: wearing a seat belt protects you in a collision.

In the corpora

• Trampoline parks have one person per bed and marshals to stop collisions.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «collision» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.