| collision course | a course of action (following a given idea) that will lead to conflict if it continues unabated |
perjury
bearing false witness
lying under oath | criminal offense of making false statements under oath |
witness box
witness stand | a box enclosure for a witness when testifying |
traumatology
accident surgery | the branch of medicine that deals with the surgical repair of injuries and wounds arising from accidents |
| witness | testimony by word or deed to your religious faith |
| collision | a conflict of opposed ideas or attitudes or goals, a collision of interests |
accident
stroke fortuity
chance event | anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause, winning the lottery was a happy accident, the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck, it was due to an accident or fortuity |
| accident | an unfortunate mishap, especially one causing damage or injury |
| collision | an accident resulting from violent impact of a moving object, three passengers were killed in the collision, the collision of the two ships resulted in a serious oil spill |
| collision hit | (physics) a brief event in which two or more bodies come together, the collision of the particles resulted in an exchange of energy and a change of direction |
act of God
force majeure
vis major
inevitable accident
unavoidable casualty | a natural and unavoidable catastrophe that interrupts the expected course of events, he discovered that his house was not insured against acts of God |
fatal accident
casualty | an accident that causes someone to die |
| Jehovah's Witnesses | Protestant denomination founded in the United States by Charles Taze Russell in |
| collision course | a course of a moving object that will lead to a collision if it continues unchanged |
adverse witness
hostile witness | a witness whose relationship to the opposing party is such that his or her testimony may be prejudiced against the opposing party, a hostile witness can be asked leading questions and cross-examined |
| character witness | a witness who testifies under oath as to the good reputation of another person in the community where that person lives |
| expert witness | a witness who has knowledge not normally possessed by the average person concerning the topic that he is to testify about |
| Jehovah's Witness | believer in imminent approach of the millennium, practitioner of active evangelism |
| lay witness | any witness who does not testify as an expert witness |
| material witness | a witness whose testimony is both relevant to the matter at issue and required in order to resolve the matter |
perjurer
false witness | a person who deliberately gives false testimony |
spectator
witness viewer watcher looker | a close observer, someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind), the spectators applauded the performance, television viewers, sky watchers discovered a new star |
witness
witnesser
informant | someone who sees an event and reports what happened |
witness attestant
attestor
attestator | (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature |
| witness | (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law |
stroke
apoplexy
cerebrovascular accident
CVA | a sudden loss of consciousness resulting when the rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel leads to oxygen lack in the brain |
testify attest take the stand
bear witness | give testimony in a court of law |
testify bear witness prove
evidence show | provide evidence for, The blood test showed that he was the father, Her behavior testified to her incompetence |
| witness | be a witness to, She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court |
| witness find see | perceive or be contemporaneous with, We found Republicans winning the offices, You'll see a lot of cheating in this school, The's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions, I want to see results |
| accident-prone | having more than the average number of accidents |