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COINCIDE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Happen simultaneously

Example:

The two events coincided

Synonyms:

coincide; concur

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "coincide" is one way to...):

come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

coincidence (the temporal property of two things happening at the same time)

coincident (occurring or operating at the same time)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be the same

Example:

our views on this matter coincided

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "coincide" is one way to...):

agree; check; correspond; fit; gibe; jibe; match; tally (be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

coincident (matching point for point)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Go with, fall together

Synonyms:

co-occur; coincide; cooccur

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Hypernyms (to "coincide" is one way to...):

coexist; cohabit (exist together)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "coincide"):

overlap (coincide partially or wholly)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP

Derivation:

coincident (occurring or operating at the same time)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Using dated before-and-after images, researchers determined the timing of this activity coincided with seasonal carbon-dioxide frost and temperatures that would not have allowed for liquid water.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)

They found that upregulation of complement expression and activation coincided with the onset of photoreceptor degeneration.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)

The judges chosen were Mr. Oliver and an able lawyer: both coincided in my opinion: I carried my point.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

When mice consumed the high-salt diet in this study, their brains also showed evidence of tau aggregates that coincided with reduced cognitive abilities.

(Pathogenic tau and cognitive impairment are precipitated by a high-salt diet, National Institutes of Health)

It just happened, however, that this hour coincided with Blessington’s constitutional, which seems to show that they were not very well acquainted with his daily routine.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“In this stalagmite, we interpret an increase in winter rainfall that coincided with an observed change in sea surface temperature patterns in the North Pacific Ocean,” says Ronay.

(Cave stalagmites reveal India’s rainfall secrets, SciDev.Net)

Exactly alike; incapable of being perceived as different; being the exact same one; coinciding exactly when superimposed; having properties with uniform values along all axes.

(Identical, NCI Thesaurus)

By the light of the lantern I saw the butt twist slowly around till its sides coincided with the sides of the step.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

They noted that as the cells contracted, the MTs “buckled” under the force in a pattern that coincided with contraction of the sarcomeres.

(Microtubules’ role in heart cell contraction revealed, NIH)