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# collision

«collision» in Mova's school dictionary: **when two or more things crash into each other while…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a collision, collisions); from the verb collide (collide, collides, collided, colliding)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A collision is when two or more things crash into each other while moving, like cars, people or balls. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collision/#m1)

2) A collision is a strong disagreement between ideas or people: «a collision of interests». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collision/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons collisions are about forces and movement; in road safety lessons they are crashes to avoid. Phrases: «a head-on collision», «in collision with», «a collision course».

### examples

- There was a collision between two cars at the corner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collision/#x1)
- The bus was in a collision with a lorry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collision/#x2)
- Look both ways to avoid a collision. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collision/#x3)
- In science, we rolled two balls to watch a collision. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collision/#x4)
- The two players had a collision and both fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collision/#x5)
- Their plans are on a collision course. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collision/#x6)
- Such a division of ideas seemed to promise civil wars and all kinds of troubles to the State, and even in the Palace the two parties frequently came into collision. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/collision/#x7)

### note

Countable. Spelling: col-li-sion (double l, -sion). «Head-on» means front to front. Safety: wearing a seat belt protects you in a collision.

### In the corpora

- [Trampoline parks have one person per bed and marshals to stop collisions.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/73-trampolines-playgrounds-and-skate-parks/9/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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