Word Finder - encounters

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A meeting, especially one that is unplanned or unexpected.

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Their encounter was a matter of chance.

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A hostile, often violent meeting; a confrontation, skirmish, or clash, as between combatants.

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A match between two opposing sides.

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To meet (someone) or find (something), especially unexpectedly.

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To confront (someone or something) face to face.

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To engage in conflict, as with an enemy.

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Three armies encountered at Waterloo.

He goes through mountain passes and encounters lions.

He was beginning to like these peaceful encounters.

We get a fine idea of him from his encounters with them.

In 896 the Londoners came off victorious in their encounters with the Danes.

After one or two petty encounters with the mob they were withdrawn, either because their temper was uncertain or because their commanders shunned responsibility.

This led to some misunderstandings, but also to life-changing encounters.

Counselors, however, are more aware of the disadvantages that mainly spring from the effects on relationship building caused by non face-to-face encounters.

All was, apparently, going well with the revolt, Saraiva having invaded the states of Santa Catharina and Parana, and defeated the government troops in several encounters.

S., led to the rapid rise of Banjaluka, which was thenceforward the scene of many encounters between Austrians and Turks; notably in 1527, 1688 and 1737.

These two years and a half of conflict were filled with isolated encounters which can hardly be reduced to coherent and ordered operations.

Some skirmishes occurred between these insurgents and the government troops, the latter generally obtaining the advantage in these encounters.

Hence both science and religion must come to recognize as the" most certain of all facts that the Power which the Universe manifests to us is utterly inscrutable."Thus to be buried side by side in the Unknowable constitutes their final reconciliation, as it is the refutation of irreligion which consists of" a lurking doubt whether the Incomprehensible is really incomprehensible."Such are the foundations of Spencer's metaphysic of the Unknowable, to which he resorts in all the fundamental difficulties which he subsequently encounters.

The royalists, effectually roused by the reverses they had sustained, concentrated all their means, and a number of sanguinary encounters ensued.

It was therefore natural that their first encounters should have taken place between fleets engaged in convoying trade, or in endeavouring to intercept the trade of their enemy.

If the whole liquid becomes vaporized before this stage is attained, a state will exist in which the vessel is occupied solely by free molecules, describing paths which are disturbed only by encounters with other free molecules or the sides of the vessel.

The government sent him to the front, directly the Carlist War broke out, as commandant of the province of Biscay, where he severely defeated the Carlists in many encounters.

Many of the towns were the scenes of encounters between the Boers and British, March 1900-May 1902.

But the remainder of the Manchurian campaign, like the second half of the war of 1859, was nothing more than a series of violent and resuitless encounters of huge armies - armies far larger than those which had fought out the real struggle for supremacy at Liao-Yang and Magenta.

The Siamese refused to yield, and early in 1893 encounters took place in the disputed area, in which a French officer was captured and French soldiers were killed.

Saratov and Samara were captured, but Simbirsk defied all efforts, and after two bloody encounters close at hand on the banks of the Sviyaga (October 1st and 4th), Razin was ultimately routed and fled down the Volga, leaving the bulk of his followers to be extirpated by the victors.

Generally met with in large droves of from fifty to a hundred, it is of a more pugnacious disposition than the former species, and a hunter who encounters a herd in a forest has often to climb a tree as his only chance of safety.

Thus the bill becomes a most delicate organ of sensation, and by its means the bird, while probing for food, is at once able to distinguish the nature of the objects it encounters, though these are wholly out of sight.

With King Kabarega, a son of Kamurasi, the Egyptians had many encounters.

In place of all this, the visitor to Kimberley encounters at the edge of the town only a huge crater, silent and apparently deserted, with no visible sign of the great mining operations which are conducted nearly half a mile below the surface.

Hence when Henry returned to Germany in 1078 Worms, Spires and many other places opened their gates to him and contributed freely to his cause; nevertheless his troops were beaten in three encounters and Pope Gregory thundered anew against him in March 1080.

There were repeated actual encounters in different places, mostly excited by Polish bands, the so-called Bajowkas, recruited from Congress Poland, and the territory of Posnania which has been ceded under the Treaty.

In 1796 there were here several encounters between the French under General Jourdan and the troops of the archduke Johan, which resulted in the retreat of the French across the Rhine.

On the advance of Ostorius into western Britain, he met with considerable resistance from Caractacus (Caradog), king of the Silures, but after some encounters this prince was eventually captured and sent in chains to Rome.

But through some neglect of orders, the prince one day encounters a leper and a blind man, and asks of his attendants with pain and astonishment what such a spectacle should mean.

Defect in speculative imagination appears when he encounters the vast and complex final problem of the universe in its organic unity.

The town of Banias, with its castle, formed also a strong outpost against Damascus, and was the scene, in common with the other strongholds, of many desperate encounters between Moslems and Christians.

Your history has never ceased to be marked by encounters between peoples who had to discover one another in conditions that were often conflictual.

Is there a government conspiracy to keep such encounters secret?

He was described as chasing the British squadron all round the lake, but his encounters did not go beyond artillery duels at long range, and he allowed his enemy to continue in existence long after he might have been destroyed.

In 1903 there were encounters between small bodies of Peruvian and Ecuadorean troops on the disputed frontier.

The Mackenzies prevailed in both encounters.

Since running such a business is taboo for women, she encounters much resistance, particularly from her conservative brother-in-law, Naser.

Although not widespread, invisibility at least is recorded in encounters fairly evenly from the mid-19th century through to the late 1980's.

Lurid accounts of encounters between humans and crocodiles have fascinated and horrified people over the centuries, and some truly monstrous creatures exist today.

Encounters below the surface may include blacktip reef sharks, rays, turtles and big morays.

His office windowsill is chocker with photographs of his encounters with the leading lights of British politics and business.

The first situation where a guitar player usually encounters chord charts is in a group jam session.

Encounters may take place in person, online or on the phone.

For those in the know, Jim Abernethy is at the top of the list when it comes to getting the best shark encounters.

For example, it appears to produce antioxidants in response to harmful free radicals and other poisonous toxins it encounters.

A benchtop model was constructed reproducing the nitrite chemistry occurring within the lumen of the upper gastrointestinal tract where saliva encounters acidic gastric juice.

Everyone she encounters, every experience she has, every sexual fantasy even, all provides grist for her mill.

He encounters Marilyn Rexroth (Zeta-Jones ), a serial divorcee, when representing her philandering husband, Rex Rexroth over divorce proceedings.

Despite encounters with wry customs officers and wily tradesmen, the Kerrs ' sense of humor remains irrepressible.

In Vienna, Professor Edmond Weiss was busy calculating probable close encounters between Earth and comet orbits.