Word Meanings - IMPACT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To drive close; to press firmly together: to wedge into a place. Woodward.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPACT)

• Collision
• Encounter
• conflict
• crash
• opposition
• impact
• concussion
• clash
• Incidence
• Impingement
• stroke

Related words: (words related to IMPACT)

• 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.
• CLASH GEAR
  A change-speed gear in which the gears are changed by sliding endwise.
• CRASH
  To break in pieces violently; to dash together with noise and violence. He shakt his head, and crasht his teeth for ire. Fairfax.
• 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 180º; -- 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.