Meaning of "clash" in the English dictionary

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD CLASH

Of imitative origin.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF CLASH

clash  [klæʃ]

GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CLASH

Clash is a verb and can also act as a noun.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The verb is the part of the sentence that is conjugated and expresses action and state of being.

See the conjugation of the verb clash in English.

WHAT DOES CLASH MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of clash in the English dictionary

The first definition of clash in the dictionary is to make or cause to make a loud harsh sound, esp by striking together. Other definition of clash is to be incompatible; conflict. Clash is also to engage together in conflict or contest.

CONJUGATION OF THE VERB TO CLASH

PRESENT

Present

I clash

you clash

he/she/it clashes

we clash

you clash

they clash

Present continuous

I am clashing

you are clashing

he/she/it is clashing

we are clashing

you are clashing

they are clashing

Present perfect

I have clashed

you have clashed

he/she/it has clashed

we have clashed

you have clashed

they have clashed

Present perfect continuous

I have been clashing

you have been clashing

he/she/it has been clashing

we have been clashing

you have been clashing

they have been clashing

Present tense is used to refer to circumstances that exist at the present time or over a period that includes the present time. The present perfect refers to past events, although it can be considered to denote primarily the resulting present situation rather than the events themselves.

PAST

Past

I clashed

you clashed

he/she/it clashed

we clashed

you clashed

they clashed

Past continuous

I was clashing

you were clashing

he/she/it was clashing

we were clashing

you were clashing

they were clashing

Past perfect

I had clashed

you had clashed

he/she/it had clashed

we had clashed

you had clashed

they had clashed

Past perfect continuous

I had been clashing

you had been clashing

he/she/it had been clashing

we had been clashing

you had been clashing

they had been clashing

Past tense forms express circumstances existing at some time in the past,

FUTURE

Future

I will clash

you will clash

he/she/it will clash

we will clash

you will clash

they will clash

Future continuous

I will be clashing

you will be clashing

he/she/it will be clashing

we will be clashing

you will be clashing

they will be clashing

Future perfect

I will have clashed

you will have clashed

he/she/it will have clashed

we will have clashed

you will have clashed

they will have clashed

Future perfect continuous

I will have been clashing

you will have been clashing

he/she/it will have been clashing

we will have been clashing

you will have been clashing

they will have been clashing

The future is used to express circumstances that will occur at a later time.

CONDITIONAL

Conditional

I would clash

you would clash

he/she/it would clash

we would clash

you would clash

they would clash

Conditional continuous

I would be clashing

you would be clashing

he/she/it would be clashing

we would be clashing

you would be clashing

they would be clashing

Conditional perfect

I would have clash

you would have clash

he/she/it would have clash

we would have clash

you would have clash

they would have clash

Conditional perfect continuous

I would have been clashing

you would have been clashing

he/she/it would have been clashing

we would have been clashing

you would have been clashing

they would have been clashing

Conditional or "future-in-the-past" tense refers to hypothetical or possible actions.

IMPERATIVE

Imperative

you clash
we let´s clash
you clash

The imperative is used to form commands or requests.

NONFINITE VERB FORMS

Infinitive

to clash

Past participle

clashed

Present Participle

clashing

Infinitive shows the action beyond temporal perspective. The present participle or gerund shows the action during the session. The past participle shows the action after completion.

SYNONYMS OF «CLASH»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «clash» and belong to the same grammatical category.

synonyms of clash

argument · bang · boilover · brush · clang · clank · clatter · collision · conflict · confrontation · contradict · counter · crash · cross swords · depart · deviate · differ · difference · disagree · disagreement · dispute · dissent · diverge · division · feud · fight · grapple · jangle · jar · lock horns · quarrel · rattle · run counter to · showdown · vary · war · wrangle

TRANSLATION OF CLASH

Find out the translation of clash to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of clash from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «clash» in English.

• Translator English - Chinese: 冲突
• Translator English - Spanish: estar en conflicto
• English: clash
• Translator English - Hindi: संघर्ष
• Translator English - Arabic: يَصْطَدِمُ
• Translator English - Russian: сталкиваться
• Translator English - Portuguese: chocar-se
• Translator English - Bengali: সংঘর্ষ
• Translator English - French: s’affronter
• Translator English - Malay: Pertembungan
• Translator English - German: kollidieren
• Translator English - Japanese: 衝突する
• Translator English - Korean: 충돌하다
• Translator English - Javanese: Benturan
• Translator English - Vietnamese: va chạm
• Translator English - Tamil: மோதல்
• Translator English - Marathi: फासा
• Translator English - Turkish: çatışma
• Translator English - Italian: scontrarsi
• Translator English - Polish: zderzyć się
• Translator English - Ukrainian: стикатися
• Translator English - Romanian: a intra în conflict cu
• Translator English - Greek: συγκρούομαι
• Translator English - Afrikaans: botsing
• Translator English - Swedish: kollidera
• Translator English - Norwegian: krasje

10 QUOTES WITH «CLASH»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word clash.

1

Neil Abercrombie

So there's always been this clash between what is the public good - that which belongs to all of us in common - and what can be exploited for a private interest.

2

Daniel Alarcon

When I was younger, I was able to write with music playing in the background, but these days, I can't. I find it distracting. Even when the music is just instrumental or has lyrics in a language I don't understand, the clash between the voices in my head and the song can be very disorienting.

3

Louis Aragon

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.

4

Rick Atkinson

Global war is a clash of systems, not just battalions biffing one another in some godforsaken forest.

5

Nikolai Berdyaev

There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world.

6

David Brooks

America is not just a democracy, it represents a certain culture of competitive mobility and personality aspirations, politics is not merely a clash of interests, but a clash of dreams.

7

Herb Caen

A city is a state - of mind, of taste, of opportunity. A city is a marketplace - where ideas are traded, opinions clash and eternal conflict may produce eternal truths.

8

Leslie Caron

I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash of civilizations, the clash of personalities.

9

Marc Chagall

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.

10

Stafford Cripps

Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLASH»

Discover the use of clash in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to clash and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.

Clash!: How to Thrive in a Multicultural World

“If you fear that cultural, political, and class differences are tearing America apart, read this important book.” —Jonathan Haidt, Ph.D., author of The Righteous Mind Who will rule in the twenty-first century: allegedly more ...

Hazel Rose Markus, Alana Conner, 2013

A Clash of Kings: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Two

THE BOOK BEHIND THE SECOND SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO.

George R.R. Martin, 2003

Clash

She wants both. She needs both. But if she doesn't make a choice, she risks losing everything. Full of passion, steamy scenes and hot romance, CLASH is a must for fans of BEAUTIFUL DISASTER and PERFECT CHEMISTRY.

Nicole Williams, 2012

The culture clash

Describes ways to help rehabilitate aggressive behavior in dogs, using food and other reinforcers.

Jean Donaldson, 1997

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World O

As former National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski says in his new foreword to the book, it “has earned a place on the shelf of only about a dozen or so truly enduring works that provide the quintessential insights necessary for a ...

Samuel P. Huntington, 2007

Keynes Hayek: The Clash that Defined Modern Economics

From their first face-to-face encounter to the heated arguments between their ardent disciples, Nicholas Wapshott here unearths the contemporary relevance of Keynes and Hayek, as present-day arguments over the virtues of the free market and ...

Nicholas Wapshott, 2011

The Clash of Generations: Saving Ourselves, Our Kids, and ...

How did this happen? In The Clash of Generations, experts Laurence Kotlikoff and Scott Burns document our six-decade, off-balance-sheet, unsustainable financing scheme.

Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Scott Burns, 2012

The Clash of Economic Ideas: The Great Policy Debates and ...

This book places economic debates in their historical context and outlines how economic ideas have influenced swings in policy.

Lawrence H. White, 2012

Culture Clash

Jayd and her friends, fed up with the way the school is handling Cultural Awareness Day, decide to form the first African Student Union, much to the administration's disapproval, and a new Latino sophomore catches Jayd's eye.

L. Divine, 2010

The Clash of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads and Modernity

Depicts the author's viewpoint about the warring Muslim and Christian "fundamentalist" nations post-September 11, drawing conclusions on American ideologies and promoting a new enlightenment for the 21st century.

Tariq Ali, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLASH»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term clash is used in the context of the following news items.

Japan, US gear up for Clash of the Robotitans

Weighing in at fo8ur tons, a Japanese firm's four-metre (13 ft) high Kuratas robot is set to clash with a US rival's MegaBot in a clash straight out ... «Times of India, Jul 15»

Briege Corkery: Fixture clash would not happen to men

Cork's Briege Corkery has criticised the Camogie Association and the Munster Ladies Gaelic Football Association over a fixture clash that ... «RTE.ie, Jul 15»

Religious Beliefs, Gay Rights Clash in Colorado Court Case Over …

DENVER — A case that tests the boundaries of religious freedom and gay rights came to the Colorado Court of Appeals on Tuesday, with a ... «NBCNews.com, Jul 15»

Southern California schools in legal clash over Alzheimer's grant

In an unusual dispute, the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), is suing a former faculty member and rival school, the University of ... «Science /AAAS, Jul 15»

Williams Sets Up Sharapova Clash While Radwanska Faces …

Serena Williams will play Maria Sharapova at Wimbledon for the first time in five years after defeating Victoria Azarenka in the quarterfinals of ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»

Andy Murray clash with Vasek Pospisil serves up superstitious …

For all the talent and athleticism on show, the result of today's fourth-round Wimbledon clash between Andy Murray and Vasek Pospisil may ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»

Zeno Clash dev teases surreal survival sim The Endless Cylinder

Zeno Clash and Rock of Ages developer ACE Team's game designer, animator and sound man Carlos Bordeu has teased a new personal ... «Eurogamer.net, Jul 15»

Clash of Clans Improved with Dark Spells Factory Update; Supercell …

Clash of Clans quickly became a huge success among iOS and Android users. Evidently, Supercell does not intend for its reign to end anytime ... «Venture Capital Post, Jul 15»

Mutual mistrust makes Obama-Netanyahu clash on Iran even riskier

Any nuclear deal would have created friction, but with duos such as Sharon/Bush or Rabin/Clinton at the helm, the fallout could be contained. «Haaretz, Jul 15»

Rita Ora ditches X Factor for Paris Fashion Week diary clash

A source tells us: “Rita worked her schedule around the X Factor auditions, so when those dates changed, there was a diary clash.” Rita has ... «Mirror.co.uk, Jul 15»