Word Meanings - IMPACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.
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- STROKER
One who strokes; also, one who pretends to cure by stroking. Cures worked by Greatrix the stroker. Bp. Warburton. - CLASH
1. To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together. 2. 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 - ENCOUNTERER
One who encounters; an opponent; an antagonist. Atterbury. - OPPOSITIONIST
One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed. - CONCUSSION
A condition of lowered functional activity, without visible structural change, produced in an organ by a shock, as by fall or blow; as, a concussion of the brain. (more info) 1. A shaking or agitation; a shock; caused by the collision - COLLISION
1. The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing. 2. A state of opposition; antagonism; interference. The collision of contrary false principles. Bp. Warburton. - IMPACT
To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward. - IMPINGEMENT
The act of impinging. - CONFLICTIVE
Tending to conflict; conflicting. Sir W. Hamilton. - STROKESMAN
The man who rows the aftermost oar, and whose stroke is to be followed by the rest. Totten. - CRASH
To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax. - CLASH GEAR
A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise. - INCIDENCE
The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface. In equal incidences there is a considerable inequality of refractions. Sir I. Newton. Angle of incidence, the angle which a ray of light, or the line of incidence of - OPPOSITION
The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180ยบ; -- signified by the symbol - ENCOUNTER
To come against face to face; to meet; to confront, either by chance, suddenly, or deliberately; especially, to meet in opposition or with hostile intent; to engage in conflict with; to oppose; to struggle with; as, to encounter a friend - CONFLICTING
Being in conflict or collision, or in opposition; contending; contradictory; incompatible; contrary; opposing. Torn with sundry conflicting passions. Bp. Hurd. - CLASHINGLY
With clashing. - CONFLICT
flictum, to strike together, to fight: cf. F. conflit, formerly also 1. A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves. 2. A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting. As soon as - CRASHING
The noise of many things falling and breaking at once. There shall be . . . a great crashing from the hills. Zeph. i. 10. - STROKE
Struck. - CRAWL STROKE
A racing stroke, in which the swimmer, lying flat on the water with face submerged, takes alternate overhand arm strokes while moving his legs up and down alternately from the knee. - BY-STROKE
An accidental or a slyly given stroke. - SPLIT SHOT; SPLIT STROKE
In croquet, etc., a shot or stroke in which one drives in different directions one's own and the opponent's ball placed in contact. - COINCIDENCE
1. The condition of occupying the same place in space; as, the coincidence of circles, surfaces, etc. Bentley. 2. The condition or fact of happening at the same time; as, the coincidence of the deaths of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. 3. Exact - COUNTERSTROKE
A stroke or blow in return. Spenser. - DEAD-STROKE
Making a stroke without recoil; deadbeat. Dead-stroke hammer , a power hammer having a spring interposed between the driving mechanism and the hammer head, or helve, to lessen the recoil of the hammer and reduce the shock upon the mechanism.