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# coincide

«coincide» in Mova's school dictionary: **To happen at the same time as something else (My birthday…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (coincide, coincides, coincided, coinciding); nouns coincidence, coincident

### meaning for a pupil

1) To happen at the same time as something else (My birthday coincides with the holiday). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coincide/#m1)

2) To be the same or agree (Our ideas coincide). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coincide/#m2)

3) To be in the same place or cover the same space; in maths, shapes or lines that coincide lie exactly on top of each other. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coincide/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In maths and geometry: two lines coincide when they are the same line; matching shapes coincide when one is placed on the other. In everyday and formal language: events coincide. Phrase: coincide with.

### examples

- The match coincided with my piano lesson. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coincide/#x1)
- Our views on the trip coincide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coincide/#x2)
- Fold the paper so the corners coincide. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coincide/#x3)
- The two lines coincide, so they have every point in common. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coincide/#x4)
- The festival coincides with the full moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coincide/#x5)
- Her arrival coincided with the rain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coincide/#x6)

### note

Followed by «with». Stress: koh-in-SIDE. In geometry, coinciding lines are not «parallel» in the usual school sense; they are the same line.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «coincide» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/coincide/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.