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单词 head-on
释义
head-on
adjective[before noun],adverb
uk
/ˌhedˈɒn/us
/ˌhedˈɑːn/
A head-onaccidentis one in which thefrontsof twovehicleshiteach other:
（事故）迎头相撞的，正面相撞的
Thecarcrossedtheroadandhitatruckhead-on.汽车横穿马路迎头撞上了一辆卡车。
a head-oncollision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.
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On the road: accidents involving vehicles
  • anti-collision
  • bird strike
  • brake
  • car crash
  • crash-landing
  • cropper
  • derail
  • derailment
  • overshoot
  • prang
  • rear-end
  • road toll
  • roadkill
  • RTA
  • rubbernecking
  • run(something)intosomething/someone
  • runsomeone/somethingdown
  • sideswipe
  • stack
  • stack up
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Hitting against objects accidentally and colliding
(Definition ofhead-onfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

head-on| American Dictionary

head-on
adjective,adverb
us/ˈhedˈɔn,-ˈɑn/
directordirectly:
We should havesatdown andaddressedtheissueshead-on.
If twovehicleshithead-on,theirfrontshiteach otherdirectly:
The head-oncollisionleftthreepeopledead.
(Definition ofhead-onfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhead-on

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