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Definitions for collide
kəˈlaɪdcol·lide

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. clash, jar, collideverb

    be incompatible; be or come into conflict

    "These colors clash"

  2. collideverb

    cause to collide

    "The physicists collided the particles"

  3. collide, clashverb

    crash together with violent impact

    "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed"

Wiktionary

  1. collideverb

    To impact directly, especially if violent

    When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.

  2. collideverb

    To come into conflict, or be incompatible

    Tibet collided with the modern world.

  3. Etymology: From collidere, from com- + laedere; see lesion.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Collideverb

    To strike against each other; to beat, to dash, to knock together.

    Etymology: collido, Lat.

    Scintillations are not the accension of air upon collision, but inflammable efluencies from the bodies collided. Brown.

Wikipedia

  1. Collide

    Collide is a song by American artist Howie Day. It was released in July 2004 as the second single from his second full-length album, Stop All the World Now. The song was written by Day and Better Than Ezra frontman Kevin Griffin. The London Session Orchestra provided backing instrumentation on the initial album version of the song.

ChatGPT

  1. collide

    To collide generally means for two or more bodies or particles to come together with force or impact, often causing damage or a change in original direction. This term is often used in various contexts including physics, road traffic, astronomy, and even in interpersonal relationships, to describe conflicts or disagreements.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Collideverb

    to strike or dash against each other; to come into collision; to clash; as, the vessels collided; their interests collided

  2. Collideverb

    to strike or dash against

  3. Etymology: [L. collidere, collisum; col- + laedere to strike. See Lesion.]

Wikidata

  1. Collide

    Collide is a music duo founded in 1992, in Los Angeles, California, USA, that has incorporated elements of trip hop, synthpop and music from the Middle East into their sound. Their imagery is said to be a wicked and neo-dark version of Scheherazade Arabian Nights tales. The name comes from the 'collision' of musical styles, primarily the ethereal vocals provided by kaRIN and the electronic music provided by Statik. Collide's debut album, Beneath the Skin, was released in 1996, followed by a remix album, Distort, in 1998 containing remixes by artists such as Kneel Cohn of the bands Spirits In Sin and The Dead Stars On Hollywood. Dissatisfied with the music industry, Collide started their own record label, Noiseplus Music, and in 2000, they released their second studio album, Chasing the Ghost. Three years later, they released their third studio album, Some Kind of Strange. The following year, the band released another remix album, Vortex, containing remixes by numerous remix artists, including Charlie Clouser. Joining kaRIN and Statik this time around, and for their first live performances a little later in the year, were Scott Landes, Rogerio Silva, Chaz Pease, and Kai Kurosawa.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Collide

    kol-īd′, v.i. to dash together: to clash.—p.adjs. Collid′ed, Collid′ing.—ns. Colli′sion, state of being struck together: conflict: opposition: clashing; Colli′sion-mat; a mat for covering a hole in a ship's side caused by a collision. [L. collidĕre, collisumcol, together, lædĕre, to strike.]

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    Song lyrics by collide -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by collide on the Lyrics.com website.

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Anagrams for collide »

  1. collied

  2. celloid

  3. codille

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of collide in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of collide in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of collide in a Sentence

  1. Alain Lecavelier des Etangs:

    We can not assure that the observed comets are likely to deliver material like water to planets orbiting Beta Pictoris, but our observations show that collisions are very common and therefore suggests that temperate planets can be enriched in material trapped in frozen ices captured by the comets when( the comets) are far from the star and later collide with the planets.

  2. Amos Yadlin:

    I don't think there is any reason for the sides to collide, as we are not fighting the same enemy. I assume that we will be very careful, and so will they.

  3. H. L. Mencken:

    I believe there is a limit beyond which free speech cannot go, but it's a limit that's very seldom mentioned. It's the point where free speech begins to collide with the right to privacy. I don't think there are any other conditions to free speech. I've got a right to say and believe anything I please, but I haven't got a right to press it on anybody else. ....Nobody's got a right to be a nuisance to his neighbors.

  4. Amir Siraj:

    Presumably, it was produced by another star, got kicked out of that star's planetary system and just so happened to make its way to our solar system and collide with Earth.

  5. Ian Madin:

    As the two plates collide.

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