clash
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /klaʃ/
ipa: /klæʃ/
ipa: /klæʃ/
rhymes: -æʃ
Forms: form: clashes
Etymology: Of onomatopoeic origin. Compare Saterland Frisian klatskje (“to smack, slap”), West Frisian kletse, kletskje, Dutch kletsen (“to smack, slap, clash”), German Low German klattsen, klatsken (“to smack, splash”), German klatschen (“to clap, smack, slap”) and Klatsch (“a clapping sound; the din resulting from two or more things colliding”), Danish klaske (“to clash, splatter”).
Senses: examples: text: I heard a clash from the kitchen, and rushed in to find the cat had knocked over some pots and pans.
text: Alone amid clashes of rain against the house.
ref: 2025 January 28, Patricia McLinn, Lattimore Mountain (The Sheila Mackey Collection, Book 1), Craig Place Books, →ISBN:
glosses: A loud sound, like the crashing together of metal objects; a crash.
examples: text: In Anatolia tensions between state officials (ehl-i örf) and the peasants were strained to breaking point.
At several places—particularly in the frontier provinces—there were fierce clashes between the janissaries stationed there and the governors. In Aleppo and Damascus incidents were common after 1589: the kuls threw rocks at the beylerbeyi’s house, killed people, broke into the divan several times and took the money prepared by the council for remittance to the centre.
ref: 2018, Pál Fodor, The Business of State. Ottoman Finance Administration and Ruling Elites in Transition (1580s–1615) (Studien zur Sprache, Geschichte und Kultur der Turkvölker; 28), Berlin: Klaus Schwarz Verlag × De Gruyter, published 2020, →DOI, →ISBN, page 50:
glosses: A skirmish, a hostile encounter.
examples: text: But they ran out of time and inspiration as Les Bleus set up a deserved semi-final clash with Wales.
ref: 2011, Tom Fordyce, Rugby World Cup 2011: England 12-19 France:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: match; a game between two sides.
glosses: An angry argument.
examples: text: clash of beliefs
text: culture clash
glosses: Opposition; contradiction; such as between differing or contending interests, views, purposes etc.
examples: text: She was wearing a horrible clash of red and orange.
glosses: A combination of garments that do not look good together, especially because of conflicting colours.
qualifier: hurling
glosses: An instance of restarting the game after a "dead ball", where it is dropped between two opposing players, who can fight for possession.
glosses: Chatter; gossip; idle talk.
examples: text: clay soils ploughed in Autumn must often meet with heavy clashes of rain before frost: therefore , those salutary effects, expected to be derived from a frosty Winter, must often be frustrated, by the land being too much condensed by the rains before the frost comes on.
ref: 1802, The Farmer's Magazine: A Periodical Work, Exclusively Devoted to Agriculture, and Rural Affairs ..., page 172:
text: T' taties offer't ta be a grand crop et forend, bet then seea mitch clash an caald wes again em, an thaev tean up varra smo, […]
ref: 1887, Thomas Clarke, Specimens of the dialects of Westmorland, by T. Clarke, page 39:
synonyms: blash
glosses: A heavy fall (of rain); heavy rain.
Derived terms: card clash
clash cymbal
clash gear
clash of the ash
clash of titans
clashscore
interclash
personality clash