collide
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English [edit]
Etymology [edit]
From Latin collidere (“to strike or clash together”), from com- (“together”) + laedere (“to strike, dash against, hurt”); see lesion.
Pronunciation [edit]
Verb [edit]
collide (third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided)
- To impact directly, especially if violent
- When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
- Tyndall
- Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.
- Carlyle
- No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.
- 2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, BBC Sport:
- And this friendly was not without its injury worries, with defender Gary Cahill substituted early on after a nasty, needless push by Dries Mertens that caused him to collide with goalkeeper Joe Hart, an incident that left the Chelsea defender requiring a precautionary X-ray at Wembley.
- To come into conflict, or be incompatible
- Tibet collided with the modern world.
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Translations [edit]
to impact directly, especially if violent
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to come into conflict, or be incompatible
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External links [edit]
- collide in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- collide in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams [edit]
Italian [edit]
Verb [edit]
collide
- third-person singular present indicative of collidere
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Latin [edit]
Verb [edit]
collīde
- second-person singular present active imperative of collīdō
