Collide

Definition: Collide

Collide

Verb

1. Crash together with violent impact: "The cars collided"; "Two meteors clashed".

2. Be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors clash".

3. Cause to collide.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "collide" was first used: 1621. (references)

Synonyms: Collide

Impulse

Come into a collision, enter into collision; collide; sideswipe; foul; fall foul of, run foul of; telescope.

Crosswords: Collide

Why are people so happy when they collide with someone from the same place? (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella)

You know, big guy, I think I'd better give you two a little time alone here'cause you know, in a universe this vast, when two hearts collide (Farscape; writing credit: Olivier Cauvin)

We collide with other crews. (California Love; performing artist: 2 PAC)

I ain't tryin to collide with folk, (Guilty Until Proven Innocent; performing artist: Jay-Z)

The passions that collide in me (For Your Eyes Only; performing artist: Sheena Easton)

Two Soviet Ships Collide, One Dies (references; author: unknown)

When Worlds Collide (1951)

AAA When Worlds Collide (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• When Worlds Collide (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) (reference)

• Islam and Dhimmitude: Where Civilizations Collide (reference)

• Threesome: Where Seduction, Power and Basketball Collide (reference)

• When Cultures Collide (reference)

• Brave New Judaism: When Science and Scripture Collide (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• 7 Worlds Collide - Live At The St. James - Neil Finn & Friends (reference)

• When Worlds Collide (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• 7 Worlds Collide - Live At The St. James [LIVE] (reference)

• Empire: Two Worlds Collide [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "collide": collide with ♦ collide with smb.'s ideas. Additional references.

Afrikaans

bots. (various references)

Albanian

përplasem (bump, bump into, cannon, cannon into, clash, crash, dash, foul, hurtle, jar, pound, run into, splash, wash), ndeshem (clash, fall in, fight, meet, occur, spar), jam në konflikt. (various references)

Arabic 

‏تعارض (clash, collision, conflict, contradict, disagree, disagreement, discrepancy, fly in the face of, incongruity, interfere, repugnance, run against smth.), ‏تضارب (clash, collision, conflict, contrariety, disagree, disagreement, discord, discrepancy, inconsistency, interfere, interference, jar, quarrel), ‏تصادم (clash, collision, impact, interfere, jar, jostle, meet, shock), ‏إصطدم في سيارة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

удрям се (bump, hit, impinge, jar, stump), сблъсквам се (clash, dash, foul, jar, shock), влизам в противоречие. (various references)

Chinese 

碰�'� . (various references)

Czech

srazit se (clabber, clot, congeal, crash, Curdle, go off, shrink, solidify), kolidovat (clash, coincide). (various references)

Danish

kollidere (to collide). (various references)

Dutch

voorrýden (run), botsen, aanrýden (run, run into). (various references)

Esperanto

kolizii, alveturi (run). (various references)

Farsi 

تصادم کردن (Bop), بهم خوردن (Collission, Foul, Knock). (various references)

Finnish

törmätä (bump, collision, crash). (various references)

French

s'heurter (conflict), opposer, entrer en collision, être en contradiction (conflict). (various references)

Frisian

botse. (various references)

German

zusammenstoßen (adjoin, bang together, clash, join, meet, skirmish, to bang together, to collide), kollidieren (be in collision, be in conflict, clash, conflict, to clash, to collide), aufeinanderprallen (clash, impact, to collide). (various references)

Greek 

συγκρούω (bump into, clash), συγκρούομαι (bump into, clash, come into collision, conflict, conflict with, contravene, hurtle, interfere). (various references)

Hungarian

ellentétben van, összeütközik (bump, conflict, confront, crash, hurtle, impinge, to bump, to cannon, to clash, to collide, to conflict, to crash, to crash into sg, to hurtle, to smash). (various references)

Indonesian

bertabrakan, berbenturan (crash), berbentur, beradu (compete). (various references)

Italian

scontrarsi (clash, crash, run into, shock). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

突き�"たる (to collide with, to run into), 乗り掛かる (to be about to board, to be riding on, to collide with, to get on top of, to lean over, to set about), 乗り掛ける (to be about to board, to be riding on, to collide with, to get on top of, to lean over, to set about), ぶっ通し (complaining in a small voice, continuous, grumbling, to collide with, to strike). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ぶつかる (to collide with, to strike), のりかかる (to be about to board, to be riding on, to collide with, to get on top of, to lean over, to set about), のりかける (to be about to board, to be riding on, to collide with, to get on top of, to lean over, to set about), つきあたる (to collide with, to run into). (various references)

Korean 

�"돌하십시�". (various references)

Malay

tubruk, menubruk. (various references)

Manx

covuilley (collision, concussion, reciprocate, reciprocating). (various references)

Pig Latin

ollidecay

Portuguese

colidir (bump, bump into, cannon, clash, conflict, crash, dash, impinge, run into, strike), discordar (clash, conflict, contradict, differ, difference, disaccord, disagree, discord). (various references)

Romanian

se ciocni (bump, conflict, dash against, encounter, fall foul of, foul, go foul of, hit, impinge, jar, knock, meet, run foul of, strike, telescope), fugi (career, chase, course, dash, disappear, elope, escape, flee, fly, fly off, give way, make off, make one's escape, pack off, run, scamper, scatter, scuttle away, take oneself to flight), alerga (career, chase, course, elapse, flow, fly, go, go the pace, haste, hasten, hurry, race, run, rush, scamper, scour, spank, urge, walk). (various references)

Russian 

сталкиваться (clash, come into collision, impinge), вступить в противоречие. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sudariti se (clash, crash, rencounter, run against, shock). (various references)

Spanish

atropellar (be run down, knock down, knock over, mob, outrage, push around, run, run down, run over, walk over), chocar (bang, clash, crash, hit, impinge, jangle, shock, smash). (various references)

Swedish

stöta ihop (clash, touch), sammanstöta (concuss), kollidera (clash, impact, impinge, knock). (various references)

Turkish

zıt düşmek (run against), ters düşmek (be contradictory, be contrary, belie, contradict, differ, go against), çatışmak (be in conflict, clash, coincide, jar, scrap, skirmish), çarpmak (bang, bang into, barge, bash, bump, bump into, cannon, clap, clash, crash, crash into, dash, foul, greet, hit, hurtle, impinge, kayo, knock, knock out, knock over, lash, mulct, multiply, plant, plonk, plonk down, plunk, pound, pulsate, pulse, ram, reach, run, run against, slam, slap, smash, smite upon, spring, strike, strike against, throb), çarpışmak (bump, cannon, clash, combat, come into collision, do battle, encounter, knock together, skirmish). (various references)

Turkmen 

зakyюmak (come across, run into), зaknyюmak (knock, strike). (various references)

Ukrainian

стикатися (clash, contact, encounter, foul, impinge, impinge on, jostle, meet, osculate, telescope, touch), вступати в конфлікт, наштовхуватися (deal with, encounter). (various references)

Welsh

gwrthdaro (clash). (various references)

collidere, confligere. (various references)

choquier, hurter. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "collide": collided, collider, colliders, collides. (additional references)

Words containing "collide": supercollider, supercolliders. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Collide" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bollide, Calida, callitee, clide, Clotilde, colade, colid, colide, Coliditz, colige, collande, colledge, Collesden, collibe, collid, collige, collinder, Colline, Colyte, Golledge, Holledge, ollied. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: collied.

-1 letter: coiled, collie, docile, ocelli.

-2 letters: celli, cello, coled, dolce, dolci, oiled, oldie, oleic.

-3 letters: cedi, ceil, cell, clod, code, coed, coil, cold, cole, deco, deil, deli, dell, dice, diel, dill, diol, dole, doll, iced, idle, idol, lice, lido, lied, loci, lode, odic.

-4 letters: cel, cod, col, del, die, doc, doe, dol, eld, ell, ice.

+1 letter: collided, collider, collides, docilely, lodicule.

+2 letters: celloidin, celluloid, coalfield, colliders, decillion, localised, localized, lodicules, rollicked.

+3 letters: celloidins, celluloids, coalfields, cockbilled, colligated, collimated, cordelling, cordillera, decillions, delocalize, helicoidal, idiolectal, inscrolled, oscillated, peccadillo.

+4 letters: carillonned, comedically, cordilleran, cordilleras, decollating, decollation, deliciously, delocalized, delocalizes, demonically, hedonically, ideological, medicolegal, melodically, millisecond, outcavilled, overchilled, peccadillos, pedological, undecillion, unlocalized.

+5 letters: clotheslined, colonialized, declensional, decollations, delocalizing, demoniacally, despotically, dialectology, disallowance, domestically, duodecillion, epicycloidal, episodically, methodically, milliseconds, misallocated, molluscicide, multicolored, occidentally, peccadilloes, periodically, policyholder, sexdecillion, tredecillion, undecillions.