What's the difference between collision and wreck?

Collision


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of striking together; a striking together, as of two hard bodies; a violent meeting, as of railroad trains; a clashing.
  • (n.) A state of opposition; antagonism; interference.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Structure assignment of the isomeric immonium ions 5 and 6, generated via FAB from N-isobutyl glycine and N-methyl valine, can be achieved by their collision induced dissociation characteristics.
  • (2) The reduction of such potentials can be explained in terms of collision between the antidromic volleys and those elicited orthodromically by chemical and thermic stimulation.
  • (3) The most common seenario was a vehicle-vehicle collision in which seat belts were not used and the decedent or the decedent's driver was at fault.
  • (4) One hypothesis to account for intercellular invasion proposes that a necessary condition for a cell type to be invasive to a given host tissue is that it lack contact paralysis of locomotion during collision with cells of that host tissue.
  • (5) The method requires that an orthodromic spike be recorded following an antidromic spike, with estimation of a collision interval analogous to that used for establishing antidromicity.
  • (6) We analized 71 car head-on collisions with 100 persons involved wearing seat belts.
  • (7) These questions are the points of collision of two immensely important spheres of interest in our everyday life.
  • (8) A woman who was 30 weeks pregnant was sitting with a three-point seat belt fastened in the front passenger seat of an automobile that was involved in a head-on collision.
  • (9) Instead of pulling off a rapprochement, the Brown ended up opening a new sore and he is, in all likelihood, on another collision course with his backbenchers, who have already recoiled from attempts to attach conditions to other welfare reforms.
  • (10) Collision is dependent on the hydrodynamic environment as well.
  • (11) What we are witnessing is the collision of two imperfect storms: the Conservative party’s turmoil over the future of taxation, and the transformation of the economy.
  • (12) This report, based on police records submitted to the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet from 1987 through 1989, characterizes motor-vehicle collisions with deer in Kentucky.
  • (13) There is only a minimal association of a poor prognosis with the speed or severity of the collision and the extent of vehicle damage.
  • (14) Collision locations were abstracted from police reports and assigned a census tract.
  • (15) These results indicate the usefulness of low-energy collision-activated dissociation tandem mass spectrometry in the daughter and parent scan modes for the analysis of ganglioside structure, in combination with fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry and high-energy collision-activated dissociation mass spectrometry.
  • (16) Five-part drama Collision was one of several successes last year, and ITV1 was named channel of the year last night, the day after Crozier's 46th birthday.
  • (17) Replays show that Maicon had an accidental collision with Lionel Messi's shoulder as a corner was sent in to the mixer.
  • (18) A Tn5tac1 insertion just inside the 3' end of cysQ, with its isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside-inducible tac promoter pointed toward the cysQ promoter, resulted in auxotrophy only when isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside was present; this conditional phenotype was ascribed to collision between converging RNA polymerases or interaction between complementary antisense and cysQ mRNAs.
  • (19) Most of the victims had multiple injuries, and only serious collisions, often with a heavier vehicle, led to fatal heart rupture.
  • (20) Induction of experimental neurosis (by collision of the alimentary and avoidance reflex) gave rise to changes not only in the output of HCl and gastric proteinases, but also in the ratio of macromolecular substances.

Wreck


Definition:

  • (v. t. & n.) See 2d & 3d Wreak.
  • (v. t.) The destruction or injury of a vessel by being cast on shore, or on rocks, or by being disabled or sunk by the force of winds or waves; shipwreck.
  • (v. t.) Destruction or injury of anything, especially by violence; ruin; as, the wreck of a railroad train.
  • (v. t.) The ruins of a ship stranded; a ship dashed against rocks or land, and broken, or otherwise rendered useless, by violence and fracture; as, they burned the wreck.
  • (v. t.) The remain of anything ruined or fatally injured.
  • (v. t.) Goods, etc., which, after a shipwreck, are cast upon the land by the sea.
  • (v. t.) To destroy, disable, or seriously damage, as a vessel, by driving it against the shore or on rocks, by causing it to become unseaworthy, to founder, or the like; to shipwreck.
  • (v. t.) To bring wreck or ruin upon by any kind of violence; to destroy, as a railroad train.
  • (v. t.) To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.
  • (v. i.) To suffer wreck or ruin.
  • (v. i.) To work upon a wreck, as in saving property or lives, or in plundering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Italian coastguard ship Bruno Gregoracci docked in Malta at about 8am and dropped off two dozen bodies recovered from this weekend’s wreck, including children, according to Save the Children.
  • (2) That the BBC has probably not been as vulnerable since the 1980s is also true – not least because the enemies of impartiality are more powerful, and the BBC's competitors (maimed after a year's exposure of their own behaviour in the Leveson inquiry ) are keen to wreck it.
  • (3) Liverpool's fixation with the wrecking ball is not party-political – it was passed from a Labour council to the Lib Dems and now back to Labour – nor is it unique to Toxteth.
  • (4) A number of MPs and senior party figures supported a wrecking amendment that would have robbed the motion of its primary purpose, opponents said.
  • (5) The optimism is based on the ability of people, in the end, to see sense.” Shorten said the budget included large elements that the Labor party under his leadership could never support in the parliament, including pricing Australian children out of university and “wrecking Medicare”.
  • (6) Water supplies are restricted to the wealthy few, and landmark buildings such as the presidential palace remain wrecked nine years after the end of the war.
  • (7) Others wrecked the villa interior, poured fuel on the floor and set it alight.
  • (8) An investigation is under way to find out what caused the explosion that wrecked the Warrior vehicle as it patrolled the border of Helmand and Kandahar in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
  • (9) Another wonderful thing to do is to take a ferry from Tobermory to Fathom Five national marine park and swim to one of the many underwater wrecks.
  • (10) The government is also correct to say the current system is too complex; 1,300 pages of planning law are being used (understandably) by anyone who thinks a development project would wreck their view and damage the value of their house.
  • (11) We can do that but we can wreck the inquiry in the process,” the Conservative MP told Today.
  • (12) The life of this once serene and resilient woman has been wrecked.
  • (13) The main building is wrecked, the control tower holed and on the scorched tarmac are the remains of 21 planes – much of Libya's small commercial fleet.
  • (14) The mine will destroy the forests on which the Dongria Kondh depend and wreck the lives of thousands of other Kondh tribal people living in the area."
  • (15) This is a gross injustice and it has wrecked my life.
  • (16) There is nowhere to go except further into an area of the city 750 metres wide by 500 metres deep that runs along the coast from the television station – with its pair of wrecked and punctured dishes – to the edge of District Two, overlooked by the pavilion and its sagging roof.
  • (17) A healthy Neftali Feliz takes over the closer duties from Joe Nathan in Ron Washington’s pitching staff, one that was wrecked by injuries in 2013, something that has to change this time out.
  • (18) The bad press and everything that’s happened – it’s wrecked my life to a certain extent.
  • (19) Miley Cyrus - Wrecking Ball (Chatroulette Version) Fabulous balls-up 2.
  • (20) That spirit of co-operation represents a drastic change from the calamitous Copenhagen climate summit in 2009, when diplomatic snubs and general distrust between the two countries wrecked any prospect for a deal.