Definition of Clash

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Definition of Clash

Clash

To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.

To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere.

To strike noisily against or together.

A loud noise resulting from collision; a noisy collision of bodies; a collision.

Opposition; contradiction; as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes, etc.

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Clash Quotations

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.
William James

When I am finishing a picture, I hold some God-made object up to it - a rock, a flower, the branch of a tree or my hand - as a final test. If the painting stands up beside a thing man cannot make, the painting is authentic. If there's a clash between the two, it's bad art.
Marc Chagall

Freedom rings where opinions clash.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The clash of ideas is the sound of freedom.
Lady Bird Johnson

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Louis Aragon

I don't think there's anything in the compromise that means that there's a clash of ethics.
Peter Singer

Some colors reconcile themselves to one another, others just clash.
Edvard Munch

Hate is always a clash between our spirit and someone else's body.
Cesare Pavese

The great thing about The Clash of course is that they keep searching for answers beyond that.
Lester Bangs

People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
Steven Pinker

Clash Translations

clash in French is cliquetis
clash in Italian is schiacciare
clash in Latin is incursio

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