What is the difference between collide and ram?
collide | ram |
To impact directly, especially if violent
* Tyndall
* Carlyle
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, year=2012
, date=June 2
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, title=England 1-0 Belgium
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To come into conflict, or be incompatible
(electronics, computing) random access memory
(project management) responsibility assignment matrix
(risk management) reliability availability maintainability
(military) radar-absorbent material, a material absorbant to radar
(Royal Academy of Music)
As verbs the difference between collide and ram
is that collide is to impact directly, especially if violent while ram is to intentionally collide with (a ship) with the intention of damaging or sinking it.As a noun ram is
a male sheep.collide
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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 .
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- China collided with the modern world.
