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. 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”, 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. 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
• 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 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)
• 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
• Luxembourgish: kollidéieren
• Maori: hūtuki, tūtuki
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Portuguese: colidir (pt)
• Russian: ста́лкиваться (ru) impf (stálkivatʹsja), столкну́ться (ru) pf (stolknútʹsja)
• Spanish: chocar (es), tropezar (es)
• 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

• Chinese:

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

• Finnish: törmätä (fi)
• 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)
• 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

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

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