(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 .
Incompatible
Definition:
(a.) Not compatible; so differing as to be incapable of harmonious combination or coexistence; inconsistent in thought or being; irreconcilably disagreeing; as, persons of incompatible tempers; incompatible colors, desires, ambition.
(a.) Incapable of being together without mutual reaction or decomposition, as certain medicines.
(n.) An incompatible substance; esp., in pl., things which can not be placed or used together because of a change of chemical composition or of opposing medicinal qualities; as, the incompatibles of iron.
Example Sentences:
(1) It should be noted that about a half of the plasmids (11 out of 21) belonged to the incompatibility group P-7 which up to the present time was conditional, since was represented by a single plasmid Rms 148.
(2) The influence of blood and blood-product therapy was studied in two groups of children: 1) 90 children who had exchange transfusion after birth because of serologic incompatibility (aged 5 months to 5 years).
(3) The application of further purified albumin solutions might reduce the frequency of incompatibility reactions.
(4) Skin grafts from Xenopus isogeneic to the donors of the MHC-incompatible larval and adult thymus implants are always tolerated by Tx hosts.
(5) Some derivatives of pIJ101, a 8.9 kb Streptomyces multi-copy plasmid, can co-exist with each other at similar copy numbers but others are strongly incompatible.
(6) It was recently noted, however, that certain commonly used assays of antibody to PRP produced incompatible results.
(7) A mathematical model that abstracts the major features of the vegetative life cycle of Neurosopra crassa has been developed, and the action of selection in this model and various extensions of it is such as to maintain polymorphisms of vegetative incompatibility factors.
(8) If these recordings are repeated before or at the same time as other signs of fetal distress have been found we must think of pathological features such as intrauterine growth retardation, post-maturity, infections, rhesus incompatibility and diabetes.
(9) The results indicate connection between plasmid incompatibility and their replication.
(10) The plasmid has a copy number of about 25 per cell, and belongs to the inc5 incompatibility group.
(11) It appears that at least two clones of T lymphocytes are involved, the first in the non-self recognition through HLA-D differences, and the second in immunization against the HLA-A and B incompatibilities.
(12) Removing an acoustic schwannoma using the translabyrinthine approach has previously been considered incompatible with hearing preservation.
(13) We infer from these results that sequences in addition to the two flanking copies of IS1, in particular the upstream region including REPI, have been instrumental in the preservation and possible spread of aerobactin genes among ColV plasmids and other members of the FI incompatibility group.
(14) In other combinations, however, single region incompatibilities may be sufficient.
(15) cynodontis, with several plasmids in the IncP incompatibility group from gram-negative bacteria.
(16) This situation has contributed to exposure of sandblasters to hazardous levels of respirable free silica, and is reviewed here to prevent a continuation of the incompatibility of these and other standards for respiratory protection with the actual exposures to various noxious inhalants in the workplace.
(17) Unresponsiveness to Hh incompatible bone marrow grafts was induced in mice by single or multiple injections of various tissues from a prospective donor before irradiation and bone marrow grafting.
(18) The discovered plasmid was not shown to belong to IncP1 incompatibility group.
(19) This finding was incompatible with our case having a neurologically based global memory disorder during the fugue state.
(20) These results are incompatible with the clockface model of positional information and demand a modification of other current models.