The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.
COLLIDE
collide, clash
(verb) crash together with violent impact; “The cars collided”; “Two meteors clashed”
collide
(verb) cause to collide; “The physicists collided the particles”
clash, jar, collide
(verb) be incompatible; be or come into conflict; “These colors clash”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Verb
collide (third-person singular simple present collides, present participle colliding, simple past and past participle collided)
(intransitive) To impact directly, especially if violent.
(intransitive) To come into conflict, or be incompatible.
Synonyms
• clash
Anagrams
• Cedillo, codille, collied
Source: Wiktionary
Col*lide", v. i. Etym: [L. collidere, collisum; col- + laedere to strike. See Lesion.]
Definition: To strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided. Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide, they recoil, they oscillate. Tyndall. No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding. Carlyle.
Col*lide", v. t.
Definition: To strike or dash against. [Obs.] Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from the bodies collided. Sir T. Browne.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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