collide

EnglishEdit

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collide

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

(UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈlaɪd/
Audio (US) (file)
Rhymes: -aɪd

VerbEdit

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

(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^[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.
(intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
China collided with the modern world.

SynonymsEdit

clash

Related termsEdit

collision

TranslationsEdit

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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