collide

English

Etymology

From Latin collidere (“to strike or clash together”), from com- (“together”) + laedere (“to strike, dash against, hurt”); see lesion.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈlɑɪd/

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Verb

collide (third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided)

1. (intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent.

   When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.

   • 1865, John Tyndall, The Constitution of the Universe (1869), page 14

     Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.

   • (Can we date this quote by Carlyle and provide title, author’s full name, and other details?)

     No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.

   • 2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport‎^[1]:

     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.

2. (intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible.

   China collided with the modern world.

Synonyms

• clash

Related terms

• collision

Translations

to impact directly, especially if violent

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: toqquşmaq (az)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: сблъсквам се (sblǎskvam se), удрям се (udrjam se)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碰撞 (zh) (pèngzhuàng), 相撞 (zh) (xiāngzhuàng)

• Czech: srazit (cs) se
• Danish: kollidere
• Dutch: botsen (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: törmätä (fi)
• French: entrer (fr) en (fr) collision (fr), heurter (fr)
• Galician: colidir
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: kollidieren (de), zusammenstoßen (de), plauzen
• Greek: συγκρούομαι (el) (sygkroúomai), προσκρούω (el) (proskroúo)

• Hebrew: התנגש‎ (hitnagésh)
• Japanese: 衝突する (ja) (しょうとつする, shōtotsu-suru), 打つかる (ぶつかる, butsukaru)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: confligo
• Luxembourgish: kollidéieren
• Maori: hūtuki, tūtuki
• Mongolian: мөргөлдөх (mn) (mörgöldöh)
• Portuguese: colidir (pt)
• Russian: ста́лкиваться (ru) impf (stálkivatʹsja), столкну́ться (ru) pf (stolknútʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Roman: sùdariti se (sh) pf

• Spanish: chocar (es), tropezar (es)
• Swedish: kollidera (sv), krocka (sv)
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can
• Yoruba: kọlu

to come into conflict, or be incompatible

• Azerbaijani: toqquşmaq (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衝突 (zh), 冲突 (zh) (chōngtū), 抵觸 (zh), 抵触 (zh) (dǐchù)

• Finnish: törmätä (fi)
• Galician: colidir
• German: kollidieren (de), aufeinander stoßen

• Greek: συγκρούομαι (el) (sygkroúomai), αντικρούομαι (antikroúomai)
• Japanese: 衝突する (ja) (しょうとつする, shōtotsu-suru)
• Portuguese: colidir (pt)
• Swedish: kollidera (sv), krocka (sv)
• Yoruba: kọlu

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} cozzare (it)

Further reading

• collide in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• collide in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911.

Anagrams

• Cedillo, codille, collied

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Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ide

Verb

collide

1. third-person singular present indicative of collidere

Anagrams

• decolli

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Latin

Verb

collīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of collīdō