Gridlock vs Conflict - What's the difference?
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A condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way.
On a smaller scale: the situation in which cars enter a signal-controlled intersection too late during the green light cycle, and are unable to clear the intersection (due to congestion in the next block) when the light turns red, thus blocking the cross traffic when it's their turn to go. Repeated at enough intersections, this phenomenon can lead to citywide gridlock.
Figuratively and by extension, any paralysis of a complex system due to severe congestion, conflict, or deadlock.
A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
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To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
As nouns the difference between gridlock and conflict
is that gridlock is a condition of total, interlocking traffic congestion on the streets or highways of a crowded city, in which no one can move because everyone is in someone else's way while conflict is a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.As a verb conflict is
to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.gridlock
English
(wikipedia gridlock)Noun
(head)See also
* deadlockconflict
English
(wikipedia conflict)Noun
(en noun)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
Verb
(en verb)- Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.