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, 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 […], volumes (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.

Synonyms

• clash

Derived terms

• collider
• noncolliding
• recollide
• uncollided
• uncolliding

 

Related terms

• collision
• collusive

Translations

to impact directly, especially if violent

• Arabic: اِصْطَدَمَ (iṣṭadama)
• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: toqquşmaq (az)
• Basque: talka egin
• 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)
• Catalan: xocar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 碰撞 (zh) (pèngzhuàng), 相あい撞 (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)
• Hungarian: összeütközik (hu), beleütközik (hu), nekiütközik (hu)
• Italian: urtare (it), scontrarsi (it)
• Japanese: 衝突しょうとつする (ja) (しょうとつする, shōtotsu suru), 打うつかる (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), chocar (pt) (typically reflexive)
• 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: зішто́вхуватися impf (zištóvxuvatysja), зіштовхну́тися pf (zištovxnútysja), стика́тися impf (stykátysja), зіткну́тися pf (zitknútysja), сту́катися (uk) impf (stúkatysja), сту́кнутися pf (stúknutysja)
• Vietnamese: đụng nhau
• White Hmong: tsoo
• Yoruba: kọlu

to come into conflict, or be incompatible

• Azerbaijani: toqquşmaq (az)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衝突しょうとつ／冲突 (zh) (chōngtū), 抵觸ていしょく／抵触ていしょく (zh) (dǐchù)

• Finnish: törmätä (fi)
• Galician: colidir
• German: kollidieren (de), aufeinander stoßen
• Greek: συγκρούομαι (el) (sygkroúomai), αντικρούομαι (antikroúomai)
• Hungarian: ellenkezik (hu), ütközik (hu), ellentétben áll/van, sért (hu)
• Japanese: 衝突しょうとつする (ja) (しょうとつする, shōtotsu suru)
• Polish: kolidować (pl) impf
• Portuguese: colidir (pt)
• Swedish: kollidera (sv), krocka (sv)
• Ukrainian: стика́тися impf (stykátysja), зіткну́тися pf (zitknútysja)
• White Hmong: tsoo
• Yoruba: kọlu

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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} cozzare (it)

Further reading

• “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.

Anagrams

• Cedillo, codille, collied

Italian

Pronunciation

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

Verb

collide

1. third-person singular present indicative of collidere

Anagrams

• decolli

Latin

Verb

collīde

1. second-person singular present active imperative of collīdō