(v. i.) To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided.
(v. t.) To strike or dash against.
Example Sentences:
(1) He is also the foremost theorist of the Tijuana-San Diego border in terms of what happens when the urban culture of the developing world collides with that of the developed world.
(2) Euromaidan was a delayed echo of the social unrest wave , driven by the country's economic failure; it collided with a diplomatic situation that was already fractious over Syria.
(3) Two regions of the dimer were surface loops that collided when built as a tetramer: a large loop (residues 203-207, KNOBI) and a small loop (residues 264-269, KNOBII), and these were candidates to explain the dimeric character of malate dehydrogenase.
(4) Mismanagement and ballooning costs saw the price tag leap to more than $12bn by 1993, and under Clinton Congress finally voted for building work on the collider to be scrapped.
(5) Other phenomena expected of an excitable medium, such as wave propagation of undiminished amplitude and annihilation of colliding wavefronts, were observed.
(6) On Tuesday 16 August at 4.30pm, he'll talk to his younger fans about his books for kids; at 3pm the day after, he appears with Audrey Niffenegger to discuss the point where comics, fantasy and sci-fi collide; and at 3pm on Sunday 21, he will meet the Guardian Book Club to discuss American Gods.
(7) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
(8) It expands what language can do and what fiction can do, and when a reader collides with that unruly exuberance, he or she has to shift perspective.
(9) In another incident, five cars and a bus collided on the Felling bypass in Gateshead, with drivers suffering minor injuries and shock.
(10) China's official Xinhua news agency countered that the Vietnamese vessel capsized after "harassing and colliding" with the Chinese boat.
(11) It was the first time our opponent has been much better than us.” Mané’s duel with Gomes continued into the second half when they collided again while vying for a deflected Targett cross.
(12) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
(13) Two news helicopters collided in midair in Phoenix in 2007 as the aircraft covered a police chase, sending fiery wreckage plummeting onto a park.
(14) Two men were swept out to sea at Brighton beach in gale-force conditions, while two teenagers remained in hospital after the car they were travelling in collided with a gritter truck in South Ayrshire.
(15) Shawcross, however, maintains there was no bad intent and said for that reason he has not been tormenting himself about the moment he collided with Ramsey's right leg and left the teenager writhing in agony.
(16) A predecessor to the LHC, a machine called the Large Electron Positron collider at Cern , the particle physics laboratory near Geneva, ruled out the existence of the Higgs boson up to a mass of 114GeV, but saw what might have been hints of the particle before it shut down in 2000 to make way for the LHC.
(17) The paper carried a Gulf-English dictionary which gave this definition of deconfliction as “trying not to have so many planes in the air that they collide”.
(18) The unique occurrence of the histological combination as gastric colliding neoplasms is discussed.
(19) We describe a direct way of measuring contact inhibition of locomotion by analysing the changes in motion of pairs of colliding cells.
(20) Relations reached their lowest point in years in 2010, when a Chinese trawler collided with two Japanese coastguard vessels near the islands .
Impinge
Definition:
(v. t.) To fall or dash against; to touch upon; to strike; to hit; to ciash with; -- with on or upon.
Example Sentences:
(1) There was immediate resolution of paresthesia following mobilization of the impinging vessel from the nerve.
(2) The present case indicates that the possibility of osseous spines impinging on the facial nerve should be considered in all cases of facial spasm.
(3) The component was revised in forty-five patients, revision and advancement of the trochanteric component was done in twenty-five patients, and impinging bone or cement was removed from six patients; a combination of these procedures was done in nineteen patients.
(4) The case is presented of a patient sustaining cervical spine dislocation and quadriplegia attributed to impingement upon a 3-point attachment harness restraint.
(5) One patient had previous fractures with bony impingement and one had a chronic tear of the tibialis posterior tendon with pes planus.
(6) Many physicians feel uncomfortable working with alcoholic people, mostly because of poor training, and this impinges on difficulties of giving excellent care to these taxing patients.
(7) The vapor was generated by passing air over arsenolite (As2O3, s) at various flow rates and temperatures, passed through a particulate filter and then was collected in a series of chilled Greenburg-Smith impingers.
(8) In this paper I have attempted to highlight some of the psychological forces impinging upon the artist, feeling that the artist's work is highly overdetermined.
(9) Pharmacological studies have suggested that neurotransmitter activity impinging on steroid-concentrating cells can affect the steroid receptor system within those cells, modifying behavioral responses to the hormone.
(10) It would seem impossible to determine an ethical framework for the practice of surrogate motherhood that does not impinge on the liberties of some or offend others.
(11) Three patients with retinal lesions near or impinging on the optic nerve head are presented.
(12) Such subcoracoid impingement is relieved by resection of the inferolateral part of the coracoid tip and of the coracoacromial ligament.
(13) Dynamic fractionation of the output from pressurized aerosols using a four-stage liquid impinger showed that the respirable fraction (as measured by the percentage of emitted droplets with aerodynamic diameters less than 5.5 microns) was highly dependent on SPC concentration and R. A significant correlation between RF and actuator score, based on orifice diameter and length, was also found and confirmed that the highest RF values were achieved with the systems of lowest SPC and water concentrations sprayed through an actuator with the smallest and shortest orifice dimensions.
(14) Post mortem revealed an infiltrating microglioma impinging also on the floor of the lateral ventricle giving a naked eye appearance consistent with a granular inflammatory reaction of the ventricular surface.
(15) A portion of the airstream, which passed this filter, was in turn passed through a smaller glass fiber filter and then into two glass impingers filled with ice-cold methanol.
(16) A random prospective comparison was conducted of 20 patients who underwent arthroscopic subacromial decompression or open acromioplasty as treatment for impingement syndrome.
(17) In seven cases, no "true" intraprosthetic motion weightbearing was observed (including five cases with intraprosthetic motion caused by impingement).
(18) Impinger samples were collected from the sampling manifold and analyzed accordingly.
(19) Causes of shoulder pain include supraspinatus tendinitis (the most common), bicipital tendinitis, impingement syndromes, supraspinatus rupture, subacromial bursitis, arthritis, frozen shoulder, and various conditions that refer pain to the shoulder.
(20) Based on comparison with impinger collection, the mean recovery of HF from silica gel tube samples was 100.7% with a precision of 0.144.