collide
verbUK, US /kəˈlaɪd/
Etymology From Latin collīdō (“to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together”), from con- (“together”) + laedō (“to strike, collide, hurt”) (whence col- (“assimilated form of com-”)).
1
To impact directly, especially if violent.
- When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
- Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate.1865, John Tyndall, The Constitution of the Universe, published 1869, page 14:
2 more examples
- No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):
- 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.2012 June 2, Phil McNulty, “England 1-0 Belgium”, in BBC Sport:
2
To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
- China collided with the modern world.
3
Poetic To meet; to come into contact.
- Out of the doubts that fill my mind / I somehow find, you and I collide2004, “Collide”, in Stop All the World Now, performed by Howie Day:
- I knew when we collided / you're the one I have decided who's one of my kind2009, “Hey, Soul Sister”, in Save Me, San Francisco, performed by Train:
4
To cause to collide.
- Synonyms
- clash
- Derived terms
- collider, noncolliding, recollide, uncollided, uncolliding