Collide vs Broadside - What's the difference?
collide | broadside |
To impact directly, especially if violent
* Tyndall
* Carlyle
* {{quote-news
, year=2012
, date=June 2
, author= Phil McNulty
, title=England 1-0 Belgium
, work=BBC Sport
To come into conflict, or be incompatible
(nautical) One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.
(by extension) A forceful attack, be it written or spoken.
* 1993 , (Peter Kolchin), American Slavery (Penguin History, paperback edition, 34)
* 2013 , Luke Harding and Uki Goni, Argentina urges UK to hand back Falklands and 'end colonialism'' (in ''The Guardian , 3 January 2013)[http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/jan/02/argentina-britain-hand-back-falklands]
A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded.
The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet.
Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.
To collide with something sideways on
As verbs the difference between collide and broadside
is that collide is to impact directly, especially if violent while broadside is to collide with something sideways on.As a noun broadside is
(nautical) one side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing.As a adverb broadside is
sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object.collide
English
Verb
(collid)- When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
- Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide , they recoil, they oscillate.
- No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding .
citation, page= , passage=And this friendly was not without its injury worries, with defender Gary Cahill substituted early on after a nasty, needless push by Dries Mertens that caused him to collide with goalkeeper Joe Hart, an incident that left the Chelsea defender requiring a precautionary X-ray at Wembley.}}
- China collided with the modern world.
Synonyms
* clashExternal links
* *Anagrams
* English intransitive verbs ----broadside
English
Noun
(en noun)- Although slaveholders managed - through a combination of political compromise and ideological broadside - to contain the threat of a major anti-slavery compaign by fellow Southerners, planters could never be totally sure of non-slaveholders' loyalty to the social order.
- Fernández's diplomatic broadside follows the British government's decision last month to name a large frozen chunk of Antarctica after the Queen – a gesture viewed in Buenos Aires as provocative.