0 present participle of clash
This latest statement from the White House clashes with important aspects of US foreign policy.
The government and the opposition parties have clashed over the cuts in defence spending.
Students clashed with police after demonstrations at five universities.
2 If two people or teams clash in a sports competition or race, they compete seriously against each other.
3 If colours or styles clash, they look ugly or wrong together:
4 If two events clash, they happen at the same time in a way that is not convenient:
5 to make a loud noise like metal hitting metal, or to cause something to make this noise:
Food politics are changing because clashing interests have begun to mobilize over an apparent national problem.
Talk of clashing ideologies or struggles against monarchical government is usually anachronistic and inappropriate : almost everyone wanted good oldfashioned order.
We live in an age of clashing interpretations of world religions, not only by scholars but by the faithful themselves.
Moreover, the more clashing loci there are in the system, the greater the genetic variance when the system settles down close to equilibrium.
They include composition rules, commutation rules, and the rule of clashing.
This rich, liberal nation embraces multiple, often clashing tribes and takes its religion especially seriously.
As a result, the voices in this collection are not always as complementary as they might be, sometimes falling into redundancy, sometimes clashing.
However, it seems that some assumptions clashing with the reality space may be accessible even if the overall meaning is imaginary.
