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词汇 head-on
释义 head-on
adjective[ before noun ], adverb
uk /ˌhedˈɒn/ us /ˌhedˈɑːn/
A head-on accident is one in which the fronts of two vehicles hit each other: (事故)迎头相撞的,正面相撞的
The car crossed the road and hit a truck head-on.汽车横穿马路迎头撞上了一辆卡车。
a head-on collision迎头相撞
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

a traffic accident
accidentAn accident on the M11 is blocking traffic in a northerly direction.
collisionPolice responded to the collision and closed the road.
head-onBoth drivers were injured in the head-on collision.
shuntUKMy insurance company refused to pay out after my little shunt.
crashA serious crash on the motorway yesterday led to its closure for two hours.
car crashHe died in a car crash.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

On the road: accidents involving vehicles
anti-collision
aquaplane
bird strike
brake
bump
car crash
car wreck
collide with someone/something
fender bender
pile (something) up
plough into something/someone
post-crash
roadkill
RTA
rubbernecker
rubbernecking
sideswipe
smash
spin
stack

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Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding

head-on | American Dictionary


head-on
adjective, adverb
us/ˈhedˈɔn, -ˈɑn/
direct or directly:
We should have sat down and addressed the issues head-on.
If two vehicles hit head-on, their fronts hit each other directly:
The head-on collision left three people dead.

Examples of head-on


head-on
Perhaps, moreover, a case can be made for saying that philosophical understanding is advanced, not by solving problems head-on, but by moving around them.
The importance of the issue merited head-on treatment in a dedicated section or chapter to tie together all the issues and questions raised surrounding it.
The essays begin with a head-on confrontation with the perennial problem of the nature of 'the urban'.
In doing so, it tackles head-on one of the challenges that face antisymmetric approaches, namely how to motivate the multiple movements that must take place.
And that, in turn, would entail conducting our linguistic descriptions and analyses in particular ways, for example, defining and tackling poverty-of-stimulus problems head-on.
The positivist now has to face the challenge head-on.
A head-on collision between two disparate sets of urban interests appears unavoidable.
This is the special case when i makes a head-on collision with the interface.
They may prefer to face the future head-on, rather than live in denial.
Locked in a head-on confrontation with classical positivism, legal realism utterly rejects the second and third tenets of positivism defined above.
When addressed head-on, it was usually agricultural concerns which predominated.
Questions about how and why speakers accept or resist external scales of value are here confronted head-on.
Rather than confronting the problem of resource allocation across time head-on, they would prejudice their judgments in favour of earlier life-stages.
Such collisions can be treated as head-on collisions.
Because the latter two questions are not addressed head-on, readers will have to draw their own conclusions.
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