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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.

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Origin:
1615–25; < Latin collīdere to strike together, equivalent to col- col-¹ + -līdere, combining form of laedere to strike

Synonyms
1. hit, smash, clash.

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Example Sentences

As the four streams collide they are forced into a third channel, forming layered droplets as they go.

And we're gonna watch them collide for an entire season.

Signals that arrive in this way can mess with the original message, as the two versions of the signal collide.

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As the four streams collide they are forced into a third channel, forming layered droplets as they go.

And we're gonna watch them collide for an entire season.

Signals that arrive in this way can mess with the original message, as the two versions of the signal collide.

And in the future our galaxy will collide with another and everything will start over.

One is for cosmic rays to collide with stray atoms in interstellar space, producing a shower of particles.

Sometimes these clusters collide and merge with one another.

Hubble's view of the cluster shows what happens when two large groups of galaxies collide.

Where toxic pollution and human habitation collide with devastating effects.

Like any other place, there is conflict when races and cultures collide.

Basically, he wanted to collide something into a wall at one speed and then double that speed.

Worlds might collide here, were they not held carefully apart by liability insurance and tall fences.

Despite their reputation as static structures, galaxies often collide and morph into peculiar new shapes.

New data seem to show that galaxies collide all the time.

Astronomers think galaxies frequently collide and merge to make bigger galaxies.

In high-profile cases, these two factors collide and turn ordinary prisoner transports into media spectacles.

Stress builds as the plates slowly but steadily collide.

To create a top quark, a proton and antiproton collide at nearly the speed of light.

Under these extreme conditions atomic nuclei collide and fuse, liberating energy that could provide virtually limitless power.

Many of these neutrons collide with more atoms on the surface before bouncing away into space.

Sometimes whole flocks collide with over-lit structures.

It elaborates our conceptions of human or humanlike agents and explores how their intentions collide with reality.

Ethics and archaeology began to collide relatively recently.

Meanwhile the atoms and molecules that make up your body incessantly tumble, vibrate or collide with one another.

Earthquakes happen mostly where the earth's tectonic plates collide.

The branes exert attractive forces on one another and occasionally collide.

Sooner or later, that wish will collide with the party's control-freakery, and some sort of change will have to come.

These two worlds collide from time to time in my writing and practice-and it's not always comfortable.

Science and the supernatural collide over this blood-curdling mystery.

Most of those will be instantly annihilated when they collide with particles of ordinary matter.

The two eras ultimately collide in a beautiful waltz.

As more people eat more meat, rising demand by farmers will collide with contracting water supplies.

The lights appear when electrically charged particles from the sun collide with air molecules over.

Thereafter collide with other particulate to create combinations.

Comedy protons have to collide in my brain by chance.

Increasingly, the two art worlds are starting to collide.

Shifting floes can also collide creating icy ridges that can be extremely difficult to cross.

When a positron and an electron collide they annihilate each other in a brilliant flash of light.

It'll animate and collide realistically with everything.

It is the first such interview for all of us, and their answers begin to collide on the page.

Ice particles collide as they swirl around in a storm, causing a separation of electrical charges.

In short, the detonation of radioactive material causes nuclear particles to collide at high speed starting a nuclear reaction.

These electrons could travel into the photospheric gas and collide with the atoms there, again increasing their.

Island-arc volcanoes occur at subduction zones, where two oceanic plates collide and one is pushed under the other.

If they collide or clump, they will heat up or release energy in some other ways, increasing entropy.

Then he was going to collide two things together at the lower speed.

In order not to collide into solids they swim in a circle.

Auroras occur when charged particles from the sun collide with.

It is certainly in principle possible for bubble universes to collide with each other.

Higher temperatures cause sound to travel more quickly because heat makes molecules move more quickly and collide more often.

There were only two cars in the entire city, and they managed to collide.

If, as is likely, photons collide with some of these particles they must lose some energy.

Black holes rushing outward, which eventually will collide inside overlapping zones.

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World English Dictionary

collide (kəˈlaɪd)

—vb
1.	to crash together with a violent impact
2.	to conflict in attitude, opinion, or desire; clash; disagree

[C17: from Latin collīdere to clash together, from com- together + laedere to strike, wound]

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Word Origin & History

collide

1621, from L. collidere "strike together," from com- "together" + lædere "to strike, injure by striking," of unknown origin. For L. vowel change, see acquisition.

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