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
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.
• clash
• 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
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
