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Collide vs Fused - What's the difference?

collide | fused |

As verbs the difference between collide and fused

is that collide is to impact directly, especially if violent while fused is (fuse).

As an adjective fused is

joined together by fusing.

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

    fused

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (fuse)
  • Adjective

    (-)
  • Joined together by fusing.
  • Melted.
  • Furnished with a fuse.
  • Derived terms

    * fused deposition modelling * fused grid * fused kidney * fused multiply-add * fused sentence

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