collide

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈlaɪd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪd

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, published 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, (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.

3. (poetic, intransitive) To meet; to come into contact.
   • 2004, “Collide”, in Stop All the World Now, performed by Howie Day:

     Out of the doubts that fill my mind / I somehow find, you and I collide

   • 2009, “Hey, Soul Sister”, in Save Me, San Francisco, performed by Train:

     I knew when we collided / you're the one I have decided who's one of my kind

4. (transitive) To cause to collide.

• clash

• collision
• collusive

• “collide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “collide”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• Cedillo, codille, collied

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

collide

1. third-person singular present indicative of collidere

• decolli

collīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of collīdō