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Collide vs Eruption - What's the difference?

collide | eruption |

As a verb collide

is to impact directly, especially if violent.

As a noun eruption is

eruption.

collide

English

Verb

(collid)
  • To impact directly, especially if violent
    • When a body collides with another, then momentum is conserved.
  • * Tyndall
    • Across this space the attraction urges them. They collide , they recoil, they oscillate.
  • * Carlyle
    • No longer rocking and swaying, but clashing and colliding .
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2012 , date=June 2 , author= Phil McNulty , title=England 1-0 Belgium , work=BBC Sport 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.}}
  • To come into conflict, or be incompatible
    • China collided with the modern world.

    Synonyms

    * clash

    Related terms

    * collision

    External links

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    Anagrams

    * English intransitive verbs ----

    eruption

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.
  • A sudden release of pressure or tension.
    • There was an eruption of joy at the final whistle.
  • An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.

    • Derived terms

    * bozo eruption * (l) * (l) * (l)