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collide
[ kuh-lahyd ]
verb (used without object)
- to strike one another or one against the other with a forceful impact; come into violent contact; crash:
The two cars collided with an ear-splitting crash.
- to clash; conflict:
Their views on the matter collided.
verb (used with object)
- to cause to collide:
drivers colliding their cars in a demolition derby.
collide
/ kəˈlaɪd /
verb
- to crash together with a violent impact
- to conflict in attitude, opinion, or desire; clash; disagree
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of collide1
Example Sentences
Yes, electric fields formed by colliding dust grains can help increase the amount of dust in the atmosphere.
In 2017, Mizera was struggling to analyze how objects in string theory collide when he stumbled upon tools pioneered by Israel Gelfand and Kazuhiko Aomoto in the 1970s and 1980s as they worked with a type of cohomology called “twisted cohomology.”
As the pandemic has collided with protests for racial justice, parents are looking for answers.
When those crystals collide with the ammonia-water droplets, they may charge up and create lightning, Becker and her colleagues reason.
As the gamma rays travel through space, they sometimes collide with other passing photons, morphing into an electron and a positron as a result.
The situation could lead to a serious accident where an airliner might collide with a Russian bomber.
See: “Mean Girls of Panem,” “Where Harry Potter and Mean Girls Collide,” “Les Mean Girls.”
But there can be no rules to limit the subconcussive hits that occur every time bodies this big collide.
Viewers love the show because it contrasts rich and poor, upstairs and down, particularly when the two worlds collide.
Cultural cliches collide in a marvel of 18th-century silkwork.
He knew, as may be said, that they were everywhere, and he was liable to collide with them at the most unexpected moments.
The sail was up and, while braking the load upwind, I slipped and fell, allowing the sledge to collide with a large sastruga.
On Berlin itself, and the Mark of Brandenburg; there to collide, and ignite in a marvellous manner.
At any crossing you are liable to run over some pedestrian or to collide with a big truck or carriage.
The interests of body and soul run on parallel lines, and so long as right order is maintained they cannot collide.
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