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Frontal (collision)
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head-on
Word definitions for head-on in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. characterized by direct opposition; "a head-on confrontation" meeting front to front; "a frontal attack"; "a head-on collision" [syn: frontal ] adv. in direct opposition; directly; "we must meet the problem head-on" with the front foremost; "the cars ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 (context idiomatic English) direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating. 2 Of a collision, from the front or in the direction of motion. alt. 1 (context idiomatic English) direct, abrupt, blunt or unequivocal; not prevaricating. 2 Of a ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Head-On (, literally Against the Wall ; ) is a 2004 German-Turkish drama film written and directed by Fatih Akın .
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
head-on \head-on\ adj. characterized by direct opposition; as, a head-on confrontation. Syn: head-to-head. Without evasion or compromise; as, his usual head-on fashion; to meet a problem head-on. Syn: downright, flat-footed, forthright, foursquare, straightforward. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a head-on crash (= in which the front part of two vehicles hit each other ) ▪ He died in a head-on crash with a lorry. collided head-on (= when they were moving directly towards each other ) ▪ Two trains collided head-on ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1840, from head (n.) + on .
Usage examples of head-on.
Garm Bel Iblis had turned on the invaders like a cornered wampa, and Fleet Group Two was accelerating through the refugee screen to meet the enemy head-on.
A bright streak of energy shot out of the gloom and struck the blob head-on.
And there was Dunster, enormously concerned about the slave trade and the Race Relations Act and the Chinese Cultural Revolution, thriving on a series of head-on collisions with the masters and the boys which would have left me trembling with nervous exhaustion.
In an argument, the truck would have the better of it far too quickly, simply by turning head-on, making for the body of the old jalopy and turning it upside down.
But she suppressed her neatnik urge and decided the best way to face this little problem was head-on.
She met the mountain head-on, exploding in a fire ball that remapped the landscape with its force.
He continued stubbornly to do his researches into planetary problems in the field, which was why he had come to Skaith and run himself head-on into the Wandsmen.
His great body, arms outflung, came spread-eagling through the air, and, as Snair stepped back, Grogan landed head-on in that broken black lava.
I run head-on into a snag on the path of progress in the shape of Tunk Willoughby.
Mattis pressed toward Baghdad, he was anticipating a head-on collision with the Al Nida Division, deployed south and east of the city.
If I went head-on with Morelli, he could make my life as a bounty hunter difficult to impossible.
Those damn plankers, heading into life sideways, instead of head-on like we cool rollerbladers do, they make me sick.
The moment the Quintan rockets disappeared in it, the probes emerged from the burning cloud in a spiral and, instead of making for the ship, crashed into each other head-on and were thus atomized.
The Reithrese and Haladin reinforcements, moving slowly with their supply trains and siege engines, hit Sture head-on and stopped.
His claws flashing, his body a whirlwind, he met the Venesects head-on.