Coincide
[,kəʊɪn'saɪd] or [,koɪn'saɪd]
Definition
(verb.) be the same; 'our views on this matter coincided'.
(verb.) go with, fall together.
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Definition
(n.) To occupy the same place in space, as two equal triangles, when placed one on the other.
(n.) To occur at the same time; to be contemporaneous; as, the fall of Granada coincided with the discovery of America.
(n.) To correspond exactly; to agree; to concur; as, our aims coincide.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. [1]. Correspond, quadrate, square, tally, cohere.[2]. Agree, concur, harmonize, be of the same mind.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See AGREE]
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Definition
v.i. to fall in with or agree in opinion: to correspond: to be identical.—ns. Coin′cidence act or condition of coinciding: the occurrence of an event at the same time as another event without any apparent connection; Coin′cidency.—adjs. Coin′cident Coincident′al.—adv. Coin′cidently.
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Examples
- If you should think our views and opportunities at all likely to coincide, perhaps you will let him know my available position. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The specific values usually discussed in educational theories coincide with aims which are usually urged. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- For it happens that in this case the interests of capitalism and of humanity coincide. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Put in technical form it is how to make the centre of gravity coincide with the centre of air-pressure. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- The judges chosen were Mr. Oliver and an able lawyer: both coincided in my opinion: I carried my point. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He went accordingly; and it happened that the time of his arrival coincided with that of Mrs. Yeobright's pause on the hill near the house. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Watson met him, and his opinion coincided with that of Hubbard. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- For a time natural leadership and nominal position coincided, and the administration became in a measure a real sovereignty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Briggs coincided as usual, and the previous attachment was then discussed in conjectures. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Indeed, he could hardly help believing it, as many points of the story coincided with what he himself knew in connection with the Roylands family. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Thought fitted thought; opinion met opinion: we coincided, in short, perfectly. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- He did not believe in spontaneous alterations, but found that every marked change in the quality of beer coincides with the development of micro-organism s. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The distinction coincides with that sometimes made between intrinsic and instrumental values. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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