collide

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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• Rhymes: -aɪd

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 to III), London: Chapman and Hall, 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:

     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: kolizii 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: បុកគ្នា (bokkniə) 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) (mörgöldöx) 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／冲突 (zh) (chōngtū), 抵觸／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

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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