clash

  1. Noun.  (onomatopoeia) A loud sound.
  2. Noun.  (military) A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
  3. Noun.  (sports) a match; a game between two sides.
  4. Noun.  An angry argument.
  5. Noun.  Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
  6. Noun.  A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
  7. Noun.  (hurling) An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
  8. Verb.  to make a loud clash.
  9. Verb.  to come into violent conflict.
  10. Verb.  (intransitive) to argue angrily.
  11. Verb.  (intransitive, of clothes) to not look good together.
  12. Verb.  (intransitive, of events) to coincide, to happen at the same time, thereby rendering it impossible to attend all.
  13. Verb.  (intransitive, in games or sports) to face each other in an important game.

This is an unmodified, but possibly outdated, definition from Wiktionary and used here under the Creative Commons license. Wiktionary is a great resource. If you like it too, please donate to Wikimedia.

This entry was last updated on RefTopia from its source on 3/20/2012.