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.
