Hypertext Webster Gateway: "collide"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Collide \Col*lide"\, v. t.
To strike or dash against. [Obs.]

Scintillations are . . . inflammable effluencies from
the bodies collided. --Sir T.
Browne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Collide \Col*lide"\, v. i. [L. collidere, collisum; col- +
laedere to strike. See {Lesion}.]
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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

collide
v 1: crash together with violent impact: "The cars collided";
"Two meteors clashed" [syn: {clash}]
2: be incompatible; be or come into conflict; "These colors
clash" [syn: {clash}, {jar}]
3: cause to collide


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