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Collided vs Fused - What's the difference?

collided | fused |

As verbs the difference between collided and fused

is that collided is (collide) while fused is (fuse).

As an adjective fused is

joined together by fusing.

collided

English

Verb

(head)
  • (collide)

  • 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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