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): /kəˈlaɪd/

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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.

   • 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Chapman and Hall Limited, OCLC 1026761782, (please specify the book or page number):

     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

• Arabic: اِصْطَدَمَ‎ (iṣṭadama)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: toqquşmaq (az)
• Basque: please add this translation if you can
• Belarusian: сутыка́цца impf (sutykácca), сту́кнуцца pf (stúknucca)
• Bulgarian: сблъ́сквам се impf (sblǎ́skvam se), сблъ́скам се pf (sblǎ́skam se), у́дрям се (bg) impf (údrjam se), уда́ря се impf (udárja se)
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: srážet se impf, srazit se (cs) pf
• 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), percuter (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: הִתְנַגֵּשׁ‎ (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
• Korean: 충돌하다 (ko) (chungdolhada), 부딪히다 (ko) (budichida), 부딪치다 (ko) (buditchida)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: confligo
• Luxembourgish: kollidéieren
• Maori: hūtuki, tūtuki
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: мөргөлдөх (mn) (mörgöldökh)

• Polish: zderzać się (pl) impf, zderzyć się (pl) pf
• Portuguese: colidir (pt)
• Russian: ста́лкиваться (ru) impf (stálkivatʹsja), столкну́ться (ru) pf (stolknútʹsja)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: су̀дарити се pf

  Roman: sùdariti se (sh) pf

• Slovak: zraziť sa pf
• Spanish: chocar (es), tropezar (es)
• Swedish: kollidera (sv), krocka (sv)
• Thai: โดน (th) (doon), ชน (th) (chon)
• Ukrainian: зшто́вхуватися impf (zštóvxuvatysja), зштовхну́тися pf (zštovxnútysja), сту́катися (uk) impf (stúkatysja), сту́кнутися pf (stúknutysja)
• Vietnamese: đụng nhau
• 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)
• Polish: kolidować (pl) impf
• 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, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Cedillo, codille, collied

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kolˈli.de/
• Rhymes: -ide
• Hyphenation: col‧lì‧de

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