noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
head-on collision
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a head-on collision
side-on collision
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a side-on collision
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
course
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The ruling last week puts the courts on a collision course with Mr Mugabe and the police.
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The advancing ship suddenly veered off collision course .
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In addition, the Kee affair had put him on a collision course with his parents.
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If executed close enough to the Moon, this maneuver can place the spacecraft on a collision course with the Moon.
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However, the House of Lords could well favour a different option, setting the two on a collision course .
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The Croatan was on a collision course with the twenty-foot branch and its two passengers.
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Suddenly I found that he and I were on a collision course , both in Atlas aircraft.
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The two are in a constant collision course .
midair
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The simulated disaster in exercise Gryphon's Lift was a midair collision between military and civilian planes over Catterick Garrison.
■ VERB
avoid
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The experiment is now performed and it is found that the bats avoid collisions just as efficiently as before.
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Authorities said the commercial flight maneuvered to avoid a collision and landed as scheduled.
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At such speeds, they need accurate sense organs if they are to avoid damaging collisions .
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To avoid clustering of collisions , chaining was chosen as a collision resolution technique.
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He saw no prospect of avoiding for long a head-on collision .
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Two of the riders left the road to avoid a head on collision .
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The huge lorry is forced to mount the kerb to avoid a collision with the oncoming car.
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Sooner or later students will need to swing, or stop a swing, to avoid a collision on the ground.
describe
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It does not therefore describe the collision of genuinely non-aligned gravitational waves.
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This describes the collision of plane gravitational waves with step wavefronts.
involve
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The Bell-Szekeres solution Bell and Szekeres have considered a very simple situation involving a collision of two step electromagnetic waves.
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At least two coaches seem to have been involved in a collision in the Leopoldstadt, near the canal.
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His car was involved in in collision with an articulated lorry.
kill
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In August 1995 some 300 were killed in a rear-end collision at Firozabad near Agra.
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In a year or so three of these young men will be killed in collisions .
prevent
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A spokesman said the freight train driver spotted the danger but could not prevent the collision .
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Make sure that you set tab stops far enough apart to prevent collisions of this type.
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They included provisions designed to prevent head-on collisions , like those at Bellgrove and later at Newton.
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The pilot released the cable but could not keep the glider straight, or stop in time to prevent the collision .
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That meant that a proposal, which would have prevented the collision , for four new platforms at Newton had been scrapped.
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The rules of the road, for example, have a purpose since they are designed to prevent collisions .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A school bus has been involved in a collision with a fuel tanker.
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News of the mid-air collision reached the papers quickly.
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The risk of a mid-air collision over central London has increased dramatically.
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These airbags are designed to protect car drivers in head-on collisions.
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Those who drive the road regularly say their biggest fear is a head-on collision .
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Whiplash, a neck injury, is a result of automobile collisions.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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About two-thirds of all collisions at state public crossings actually occur where everything is functioning properly.
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At such speeds, they need accurate sense organs if they are to avoid damaging collisions.
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But in the collision course, the church has some mighty weapons.
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In 1994, they had to withdraw after Roca broke her wrist in a fluke warmup collision .
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This placed an important limit on the amount of energy that could be emitted in the collision .
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To carry out the same thing with battleships was a very different matter and the collision the officers had foreseen duly occurred.